Carriage House Plans: Duplicolor

Tuesday 1 January 2013

Duplicolor

If you sand the paint enough to get all the shine off of it, you can use it as a base. you can rough it up with 60 or 80 grit paper but try to get it smoothed out to about 220 grit by the time you start spraying.I used nitro and did it like this, but I'm pretty sure it's close to the same spraying procedure for poly.Hang the guitar on a coat hanger to do the front and back, and place the guitar on two blocks of wood on a table or a cardboard box to do the sides.Spray 2 rather light passes to get something for the next layers to really grab onto, and wait maybe 2 hours. Spray 3 passes each on the front and the back, give it an hour to dry to the touch before moving it to the wood stilts from the hanger and spray 3 passes around the edges, and then give it 3 hours to dry. Wipe it off with a tack cloth to get dust off of it. Spray 3 more passes and then call it a night. if you get a run or dust or pock marks in the paint STOP. Let it dry overnight and then gently sand it down and begin to respray that general area.You wanna spray around a foot away from the surface, and start beyond the guitar to either side, and in a smooth motion, spray across the guitar and follow through past the guitar. This will ensure the pass is even.