Spraying Sunbursts
Can anyone advise me on this?
When a soundboard is stripped back to bare wood, all the advice is to blow a coat of sealer on for protection. Or to put the base coat on and then blow a wash coat over it. Either way, spraying colours onto this has been a problem since the colours won't soak in and don't run on easily. Also very difficult to feather a very fine edge to the burst since the spray sits on top of the sealer and tends to accumulte in wee globs rather than dust on.
I'm using StewMac water based stains.
What am I doing wrong?
MAC
When a soundboard is stripped back to bare wood, all the advice is to blow a coat of sealer on for protection. Or to put the base coat on and then blow a wash coat over it. Either way, spraying colours onto this has been a problem since the colours won't soak in and don't run on easily. Also very difficult to feather a very fine edge to the burst since the spray sits on top of the sealer and tends to accumulte in wee globs rather than dust on.
I'm using StewMac water based stains.
What am I doing wrong?
MAC
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Permalink Reply by William F.Eden on
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I would try the water stain on bare wood .With the sprayer. Then start with a veary lite cote of finish and add to that Bill."""""""
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Permalink Reply by Mac McElwain on
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Maybe it's as simple as I have put too much finish on to protect
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Permalink Reply by Russell Vance on
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Umm, the water based stains won't mix with lacquer (which I suspect is what you have done - mixed a water based stain into a spirit/ thinner based lacquer which you are trying to spray on). You need MEK dyes (Colortone or similar) and nitro/poly to spray the sunburst via the shader coats. You will have difficulty trying to form a sunburst by adding water based stain to the bare wood. Strip it back and follow the Stewmac/Reranch.com instructions for applying a burst finish. Good luck , Rusty.
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Sorry I thought you were using a water bace Lacquer Bill."""""""""
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