Racer X

Yes, atmospheric is roughly 14.7 (I have to work with digital pressure gauges all the time at work).

My wife just bought some of those space bags not too long ago, and I helped her load up the last one. I'm thinking it MAY be enough to do the job. I wanted to do a similar , so I MAY have to swipe one of her space bags and try. hehe.

Wow, really coming along nicely. Keep the pics coming.

Wow! SUPER-NICE job, thus far! Can't wait to see the final product.

Hey, out of curiosity, what kind of materials are you using, and what paints?

To get the last body face nice and even, I used several full pages of sandpaper, carpet-taped, the entire length, to a large piece of plate glass (Actually it was a glass chessboard), and it came out quite well.

Anybody else try the Minwax Wipe-On Poly? I ised it on my latest neck, and was rather happy with the results, so far.

You mean a bradpoint? Always a good idea to use. I usually cover the area with a layer of masking tape, to help prevent chipping.

Is the solid black still there, in the dent? I've done similar jobs, and so long as you level it, properly, afterwards, so as to blend it into the original finish, I'd say it should come out, fine. I'd be interested if someone else has had experiences telling otherwise.

That's a really nice looking project you have going. Can't wait to see the finished product. Kudos to ya!

Make sure it's not a WET T-shirt, or your "knobs" will poke through! hehe.

Hey, not your fault. You just asked a question, and I just tried to help out. It was the attitude that I got that I didn't appreciate. I don't respond well to smugness.

Talk about a bunch of haters. Sheesh. Have I painted a guitar using bedliner? No. Have I painted a guitar, whereas it affected the tone? Yes. Have I painted a bedliner with that stuff? Yes. And I know that the stuff is dense, and deadens noise. Why? Because if it's density and consistency. It cut down on the VIBRATIONS. And that's what it's gonna do to a guitar. Someone painted a pedalboard with it, and liked it: Great. You don't count on the tonal resonance of your pedalboard, for your sound.

Hey, if he wants to try it, let him try it. Hell, why don't you guys try it. I was trying to help the guy out, and you jump on ME with such attitudes? So WHAT if I haven't painted a guitar with it. I know what the properties of the stuff are, and it's not what I would want on my guitar. Maybe YOU do.

How can anyone say that'll kill "tone?" What is tone? What's good tone? What can you add or subtract to make tone "good?" Those are hard questions to answer and almost impossible to quantify. I think it might be a painfull guitar to use, depending on what type of bed liner you use, but I think it would look cool and I doubt It'd have a negative effect on your guitar's sound if just sprayed on the body.

peace,

russ

Dude, the TONE is affected my the sum of all parts, and not just what pickups you have in it. That's why we have TONEWOODS. Trust me, it's not some b.s. story or conspiracy to jack the price of certain woods up, and doing that WILL kill his tone on that guitar. Don't believe me? Try it. You'll see what I'm talking about.

There goes the guitar tone, right out the window.

Sure. I couldn't hurt. Depending on what sort of finish I plan to spray over the primer coat, I'll sometimes just use plain old shellac (which definitely sticks to anything) to give the primer -- and to a lesser extent the color coats -- something to "bite" into.

The problems crop up when someone just scuff sands the poly and then starts hosing on some finish out of a poof can ... which usually pops right off during the sanding/buffing process(es) like a flea off a hot skillet. Since most poly finishes are virtually immune to solvents, any solvent-based finished sprayed over them won't get any "bite" into the underlying surface, and ends up flaking right off.

Hmm. Well, I actually planned on using Binz primer/sealer, which IS shellac-based, woth a white tint, since I'm going from a red finish to a lime green finish (working on a Green Meanie project). That way, I would have a nice white base, which to apply the color coat, without having the red bleeding through. I figured the adhesion promoter, whould help the new finish adhere, better.

That's not a prob. they are unbound, fender necks.

Wow, 8" radius. I woulda thought that would've caused issues.

I'm considering trying my hand at a refret job on one or more guitar necks I currently own, and one thing I always hear is that it's a good idea, to help avoid fret-end pop-up, is to over-bend the frets. Well, my question is: By how much? Nobody (far as I can tell) ever tells you THAT. Say I have a neck with a 12" radius. Should I be overbending at 10"? If you over-bend too much, doesn't the fret stand a chance of popping, in the center? Just want to be clear in this, before I dive in, headfirst.

Would shooting a dust coat or two of an adhesion promoter, prior to shooting the primer, aid in the adhesion process. I have similar projects coming up, and I sometimes use Bulldog Adhesion Promoter, to blacken chrome neckplates and the like, and was wondering if it would be beneficial, in this case.

Pics will help us...

It'll be a hit in the viking-metal world!

i wasnt against seat belt 'material' just using a seatbelt as a strap; which i thought was the suggestion;

but if i was against using the material; just because steve vai used it, wouldnt change my mind;

its about what can be done, not whats been done and accepted

I'm not insinuating that you do a seatbelt strap, based on Steve Vai's preference. I was merely counterpointing your opinion that it's cheesy. I just happen to think the opposite. Relax.

Yeah, I pretty much new where your story was heading, even before I got to the end. I've heard similar horror stories from Duplicolor users. I've never touched the stuff, but feel I don't have to. If I can, I try to learn from others' mistakes, so I can save myself a bit of headache. Sorry to hear about your experience.

I've hard nothing but bad about Duplicolor. Apparently it's VERY soft, and takes forever and a day to dry.

i hear ya with the simplicity of seat belts; but pardon me; thats cheesy

Try telling that to Dimarzio. They've been making buck off seatbelt-fabric straps for years. Pleayers like Vai seem to like them.

LOL. You gotta love the badass, pimply satanists, doncha?! Hahahaha! The same kind that if you sneeze, they still say, "Bless you.". hehe!