Prostheta Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Modifying a bench grinder to drive a secondary arbor via a belt would be cheap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 I'm fearing the black finish for my current bass build. I truly want to overload the clear and develop a deep glossy black. Best advice I have had is to load with the clear but the final polishing is a fearsome prospect given my lack of polishing hardware and the amount of Ripthorn's Armstrong method I expect. What is worse is that I have no idea where to source high quality compound here without having to pay top dollar for more than I will really need. Bleh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonx Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 Prostheta: if you go to an auto paint shop you could ask for smaller size tubes of the top shelf stuff, theyre usually a bit bigger than a tube of toothpaste and will last several guitars if you don't waste it. As far as overloading the clear, if you spray too much itll just create ripples and peel making more hard work for yourself afterwards. If it's a straight black then I'd probably just spray 2-3 base coats over a tack coat then 3 coats of clear. Definitely no more than 4. That's spraying auto 2K. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjiscooler Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 Where did the rest of the thread go?! I wanted to go over the info again and it was gone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonx Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 The whole forum is like this. Seems everything that was posted over those few days has been lost and one of the mods posted somewhere to say it cannot be recovered. What info were you wanting? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 I'm afraid these things happen to the best of us. Unless daily backups are used, when things do break you lose everything back till the last time an automatic backup was done. Frequent backups invariably cost more money however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjiscooler Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 The whole forum is like this. Seems everything that was posted over those few days has been lost and one of the mods posted somewhere to say it cannot be recovered. What info were you wanting? I wanted to see what the particular polish you used was again, I found an auto part store that might have it stocked. I like to buy locally whenever possible. No biggie crashes happen, I thought I screwed something up and got banned or something haha Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonx Posted January 11, 2012 Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 The pic I posted will still be on photobucket, a bit later when I'm on a desktop pc I'll hunt for it and repost. The pic has the part #. Cheers Allan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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tjiscooler Posted January 13, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 13, 2012 YES! Thank you so much, I really appreciate all the help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonx Posted January 14, 2012 Report Share Posted January 14, 2012 Just for the sake of conversation - I went back to using my old polish which is twice the price as I found a little bit left in a tube I didn't know I had. Used it on the top of the cabinet I finished recently. I must say that after using it I prefer the 06198 perfect it by 3M. That tub of 3M polish will probably last a lifetime if only spraying guitars. I've painted 4 or 5 guitars since buying it and it hardly looks like I've touched it! Like I said in an earlier post thats now deleted, if the polish is spraying at you and flicking off, then you're using too much. Just wipe it on lightly and keep your polishing pad slightly damp to make up for the lack of polish. Cheers 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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