Strip a Metallic Coat

[Stefano]

Hi... This is my first post. I'm new here.

Here my question.

I'm stripping a squire stratocaster: it's blue but paint is damaged and - near the jack input - you can see the wood.

So, I've stripped it off chemically but I've discovered that the last coat is a metallic coat and I don't know what to do whit that. I know that Stewmac did that with a heat gun (http://www.stewmac.com/tsarchive/ts0151.html) but unfortunatly I don't have a heat gun.

Possibilities:

1) Sand it? But it'll take many many hours... it's a metal coat... not paint!

2) Leave it... In fact I'll paint my guitar in sonic blue so I don't think that I need to strip the metal coat. But in this case what I have to do with the point near the jack input where the metal coat is falled down and you can see the wood?

3) Other possibility unknown by me.

Thank you for your time and for your help... and sorry for my english!

Stefano

[Pierre-Antoine Roiron]

Sanding won't take more time than if it was regular paint. It's just metal powder in regular chemical substrate. It's not harder than a regular base coat. I've never had any problem with that so far.