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A custom build "S1" guitar body has arrived for me to spray paint! - www.jacksinstrumentservices.com
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This custom neck heel profile has been cut to help reach the top frets easier - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here's me adding the first layer of "Sanding Sealer" to the guitar's body. This stops the colour coats soaking into the timber - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here's the body after being sealed. Now for more sanding! Jack's Instrument Services
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The layers of sanding sealer aren't too level when you look closely, they need a good sanding in preparation for the next stage - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here you can see where I've levelled and where is still coarse sanding sealer. I want the whole body to be level like that - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here's an imperfection in the body. There's a depression in the body which I need to sand out. You can see there imperfections only when the light's right - Jack's Instrument Services
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More imperfections in the guitar body. Here's where the router appears to have slipped off the jig and cut un unevenly. Back to sanding again! - Jack's Instrument Services
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And here's some more. These imperfections were invisible until I added the cellulose sanding sealer! - Jack's Instrument Services
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After re-sanding the imperfections out heres what the body looks like - Jack's Instrument Services
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Right! We're ready for some colour at last! - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here's me spraying the first ever pass of black nitrocellulose paint - Jack's Instrument Services
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Painting a guitar body. First coat! - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here's the front side of the Strat style guitar body painted - Jack's Instrument Services
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Now painting the back of the guitar with Black Nitrocellulose paint - Jack's Instrument Services
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First coat of paint on the sides - Jack's Instrument Services
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2nd Coat - The guitar's fully opaque now - Jack's Instrument Services
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2 coats of guitar lacquer applied - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here you can see the "orange peel" type effect that will have to be flattened - Jack's Instrument Services
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I've just re-applied the black over the previously damaged areas here - Jack's Instrument Services
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Flattening the orange peel. Oops accidentally sanded through on a corner. Looks like it was a bit rough anyway. This will give me a good chance to re-sculpt the cutaways - Jack's Instrument Services
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2 medium coats of clear lacquer - Jack's Instrument Services
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Applying fairly thick coats of clear nitrocellulose lacquer now. The weather was good so it was drying pretty fast - Jack's Instrument Services
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5 Coats of clear now. I've have added perhaps 6 or seven coats to the edges as they're more likely to get damaged in the future - Jack's Instrument Services
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2 or 3 coats of black 6 coats of clear nitrocellulose lacquer with a couple extra round the edges. This body's going to dry now for a week - Jack's Instrument Services
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1 and a half weeks later the nitro paint has dried pretty well. It might still be another week before its 100% cured - Jack's Instrument Services
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Orange peel effect that needs to be flattened. The idea with so many clear coats is for strength and also so you can sand through perhaps 1 layer in order to fully flatten the top coat - Jack's Instrument Services
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Here's a part of the back I've flattened with 1200 grit wet dry paper. Here ever 1200 grit scratches look pretty coarse - Jack's Instrument Services
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Every inch of the guitar body's paint needs to be flattened - Jack's Instrument Services
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Found a strange bubbly imperfection in the paint here. I deliberately sanded through to the sanding sealer layer here to remove it. Annoying though! - Jack's Instrument Services
