First Swirl Project

[project guitar pat]

I just got a project guitar and have decided to give it the swirl paint job that I seen in th project guitar tutorials. I only have experience in painting guitars with rattle can nitro-lacquer. Before I start, I have a few questions that need answering:

1. If the base coat of the guitar is to be white, can I swirl over white primer?

2. Do I need to sand the swirls before I clearcoat the guitar?

3. I have read enamel paints are used in the swirling process, am I able to swirl a guitar with enamel if the base coat is sprayed with nitro-lacquer?

4. Can I use nitro-lacquer clear coat over enamel swirls? If not are there any rattle can or other alternatives other than buying an expensive spray kit to spray poly?

Any other tips would also be helpful.

Thanks

[Bmth Builder]

1) I dont see why you cant swirl over the white primer,

2) dont sand the swirl, it will be quite thin so you would prob sand through and have to re do it, go straight to clear

3) test and find out

4) again you'll have to test, unless some one already knows

[IWishICouldShred]

Enamel swirl should be fine over a nitro-lacquer (as per #3), but I've never had a good experience using lacquer paints over enamel (#4). That doesn't mean it can't be done with clearcoat, though-- I really have no idea what would happen. Try it on a test panel?

[ae3]

If you end up going a head with this job i'd love to hear how it turns out.