Sunday, August 30, 2015

Prep for Paint

I wanted to spray a tinted clear coat over the face to the guitar. I masked the sides as I had before and used a pizza box to make a cardboard mask for the back of the body.

I didn't know how permanent the tinted lacquer would be if it got on the plastic binding so I cut thin strips of the 3M green tape to mask the front edge of the binding. The green tape was very flexible at that width and clung well to the thin edge.

The binding edge masked.

The mask for the back of the body was cut from a pizza box.

With test fitting I found that the neck was a very snug fit. I did not want to make the fit any tighter by adding paint so I masked the slot for it. I also masked the cavities for the pickups.

The body masked and ready for paint.

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