Tinting Vinyl Sealer???

[Jeff Perkins]

I'm refinishing an old Mustang. It's down to bare wood, and we want to finish with a Sonic Blue color. I've never used vinyl sealer before, only sanding sealer or shellac. I want to put a white "primer" color under the blue. Can I just tint my sealer, or do I need to spay the sealer as it is and then shoot tinted nitro over that until I can't see any grain. What's the best option? Also, I understand that you must spray your first nitro coat about 4 hours after your last sealer coat, and that your sealer coats need to be an hour apart. Is this correct? How long do I have after my last sealer coat to spray my first nitro coat? I'm probably going to spray two sealer coats. Can someone give me the correct time schedule for the process so that I don't get any adhesion problems. Any help would be appreciated!!

 

Jeff

[Greg Mirken]

Jeff, I would go by the recommendation of the supplier of the materials you are using.

[Jeff Perkins]

After watching StewMac's Spray Finishing Basics, again for the 5th time now, they did just that, tinted the sealer grey. Unfortunately, now I have an extra step I could have omitted, spraying white nitro. Oh well, live and learn!

[William F.Eden]

I realy wunderd why you would want to spray white on first when you were trying to make it blue .I would have thought you would spry it a darker color to cover the grain first.Bill.'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''

[Jeff Perkins]

I went with a grey coat instead. The grain wasn't too bad, and the white did cover it. I've done it that way in the past and had great results. But, ultimately, I decided on grey and it turned out great.

[Russell Vance]

I f you spray blue, especially shader coats, onto anything other than white it goes with the substrate - spray it onto a redish mahogany you get aqua/turquoise, spray it onto a yellowish wood you get the color going towards green - my dyes come in blue green, and blue red mixes to try and compensate for this but matching or getting a true color is a bit of a nightmare.   I sometimes spray a washcoat of clear with a white paint pigment to normalize the surface and still let the grain show through (like the vintage tele butterscotch schedule).  Worse case is a guitar like a Gibson Blueshawk which has a mahogany body and a maple neck and has a translucent finish.  R.

[Jeff Perkins]

This one will be opaque. And I tested the two colors on a piece of scrap first. Looks good so far.