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PAINTING THE BODY - LACQUERING AGAIN
Well, the first coat looked OK, and so did the second, but man did the third one kill the sequence. I have to say, I've read back over the last few days' entries and it sounds like it has been going well, so I should have known something would screw-up sooner or later.And what a pain it has been today. Basically, if you remember a while ago I mentioned that the piece of wood I used to fit to the neck so that I could spray 360 degrees, wasn't quite wide enough. This meant that I could only use two of the four screws, and I think I also said that the wood had split a little. Well, no great drama with it, other than that the wood split good and proper, and so wasn't really stable enough to use anymore. No harm done at that stage, and to be honest I couldn't be bothered to cut another piece and fit it, as there were just a few coats of lacquer to apply. I figured that I'd do one side first and then do the other. It would take a little longer but be fine. No hassle. Fun even.
And so that is what I've been doing with the lacquering, few coats on the front. Let it dry, then a few coats on the back. Lovely.
Apart from, of course, that the last coat of the front managed to overrun onto the newspaper on top of the workbench and the back of the guitar stuck to it good and proper.
So in summary, the front looks excellent, a much better job than I ever hoped for - a good shininess before we even get to the T-Cut and polish stage. The back on the other hand has a rather dodgy looking ripped newspaper design, as of course the paper shredded when I picked the 'dry' guitar up.
La-di-da-la-laaa.
But what to do? To be honest I haven't really got a clue. The extra paper will come off with water I expect, but some of it is entombed under lacquer,and very much won’t.
Dumb dumb dumb. I kept expecting bugs in the lacquer - tsetsefly in amber - but I didn't expect to have to deal with the North Somerset Times 'Bargain Buys'.
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