Spraying. . .

Was going to video the whole sesh, but I only remembered half way through so I'll set the scene. .

. . I just done the back, was the best coat I ever seen!! Turned the bad boy over and started on the front, got half way through and thats where we pick up the story. . .

Getting on. . .

Emptied me shed and the workmate just fits in.






So now I can spray again (as long as it doesn't rain as me shed leaks) I have to bring it indoors after as I don't trust the shed, full of dust and cobwebs and that!

Did one more coat.

One more colour coat I reckon then the clear's gannin on.

Promises promises. . .

Im getting a bit of Jip from folk for taking too long building the guitar.

So plan is:

* Try and spray in my shed (which will save me having to rebuild the effing booth, which will then save me about a week and a half)
* Work out a way to the hang the guitar vertically in the shed which will save having to use the workbench to clamp the guitar (as my shed is about the size of a wheely bin)
* Do a coat a night after work so I can get the paint job finished as soon as possible
* Build the damn thing

Me Granda got me to promise that it would be done by Christmas, which I agreed to.

He didnt state which Christmas though!!!!!

Bin a while. . .

The guitar builds been on hold for a few months due to the fact that I lost me temper with the booth and ended up wrecking it. It kept blowing across the garden and the missus was worried it'd end up on the roof of the house or something!! She woke me up one Sunday morning and told me to sort it out so I brayed the hell out of it with a hammer and ended up slashing the plastic.

Great move - as I had no where to spray the guitar after that. What a knob!



The olympic white colour was far too bright, looked more like I'd used Tipex to paint it and it looked daft against any of the scratch plates. I tried to take the edge off the Tipex colour by spraying a coat of tinted lacquer but it went on far to thick and totally covered the white. It looked the colour of Pete Doherty's fingers. I didnt bother to do the front since I knew I wasnt going to keep it that colour.



So I got me sel some vintage white cans but before I sprayed those cans I had to sand off the tinted coat back down to the white layers so the nicotine colour wouldnt show through.



*Half way through sanding off Doherty's finger marks*


Anyway, we went to me parents in laws house for a week and Kev's got a canny big shed so I did a few coats of the vintage white in there.





*After five coats of vintage white*



So that's where its at at the minute, probably needs a couple more vintage white coats and then the clear lacquer can go on.