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  1. I would appreciate it if someone could comment on my options as well as identifying the best way to resolve this rather than the easiest way. Thanks again
  2. This is my first "pro" finish attempt - I don't have the money for the compressor, etc. right now so I bought some rattle cans from Reranch.com. I applied the nitrocellulose black for a few coats (perhaps 5 or more altogether with a little 400 grit sanding along the way) after using Stewmac sanding sealer. Everything was looking wonderful, some orange peel but really quite minimal and I could start to finally see my reflection. And then last night I started with the clear coat nitrocellulose from reranch. I likely applied it too thick. As it dried, I notice a bubble here and there (each about 3-5 mm in diameter, perhaps what I've seen referred to as a pop rather than blushing). There might be 5 or so bubbles on the entire guitar body. By the way, I'm in St. Louis - it's humid, it was about 80 degrees and a bit windy and I'm in the garage. I also have some blushout from reranch. My question is this: now that the clear nitrocellulose has hardened overnight, can I apply some blushout to melt the clear rather than sanding it out? Will it melt the bubble? I'm asking this because blushout is supposedly used to get the tiny bubbles out so shouldn't it work the same for the big ones also? My hope is that I can do this rather than sand becuase I just ran out of the black and would like to proceed with the clear. Would it be better to build up more clear coats first prior to applying the blushout if I'm afraid it might affect the black? Alternatively, should I just wet sand the clear (and to what grit) and then continue with the clear coating? Alternative 2: will the next coat of clear melt the previous coat thereby eliminating the bubble? Thanks!
  3. Thanks for the advice. I went and bought some mdf this morning. Wezv, I'm a fan. I've been on here for a few years but never post. You've got some rock solid guitars and I always tune into your posts and I've learned quite a bit. Thanks again, jpierce! Here's a few family photos, time to wind some tiny pickups. My son enjoys painting them; it's something fun we can do together and it gives mama a break! Let there be rock http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr171/b...raguitar004.jpg http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr171/b...ne142008075.jpg http://i481.photobucket.com/albums/rr171/benglaus/family.jpg
  4. I have several questions here so please forgive me. Thank you for your help. What is the best way to cut an SG-style body and have hard edges and contour? I’ve been using a cheap scroll saw to cut the body using a paper template that I’ve glued to the wood. It works well but requires considerable sanding to remove the toothmarks from the scroll saw blade thereby defeating the purpose of using the scroll saw in the first place (again, cheap scroll saw, 18 tpi blades, and I’m a novice). When I sand the edges, I inevitably have some roundover of the edges. I’d like to minimize roundover and yet make the edges less hard. Also, how do you contour a body (let’s say around the SG horns) and make the contour well-defined? Please forgive my improper use of terminlogy – to clarify, if I’m looking at the top face of the body, there is shaping of the horns just inside the edge of the body. Is this done with a router? Or alternatively, would you first make your edges softer with a rasp/file and then plane the top surface of the body to give you a hard edge? Is any of this done in combination with a spindle sander and if so, what is the order of events? While we’re at it, does anyone have any tricks for perfecting the circular shape of the horn (the inner circle between the tip of the horn and the neck)? I’ve been using a sanding pad for smoothing out imperfections. It looks really good, but I can still see the imperfection and it kills me. Is the answer simply patience and continued fine sanding or is there a better way? Finally, does a well-aligned bandsaw have an advantage over the scroll saw in that the blade is unidirectional? Again, thanks in advance for your responses. Anything you can do to shed the light on this here newb would be greatly appreciated.
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