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[Strats&Stangs31]

Hey guys and gals!! I had a Sonic blue Jagstang years ago and had it stolen one night after a show. I have been looking for another one at a good price for a while. I ended up with a Fiesta red one this time. 96 model. The body has some normal wear but I want to refinish it and paint it Sonic blue. Going with the red tort pickgaurd and white pups. I am looking for any and all tips for this process from any good tips on stripping to paint prep to finish. Thanks for any and all help!!

[smallclone]

you might be better off having it sent off for a professional to do, this type of thing is not fun and extremely messy and time consuming, esp if youre a novice.

the problem with doing this is that the poly type paint thats on the jagstang isnt too easy to apply and if you dont know what youre doing it can be difficult to buff correctly as well.

reranch.com sells what you need and they have nitro paint which is the old school stuff and much easier to apply.

[HNB]

What I would do is lightly sand the finish with 1,000 and paint over the existing paint. I have had a lot of success with Duplicolor spray paint. It is sold in Autozones in a bunch of colors. It is acrylic lacquer and dries good enough to sand after a few hours. I would also buy a can of clear coat while at autozone.

The trick I have used with success is to spray about three or four color coats. (Spray a coat, let it dry, wetsand with 1,000 grit sandpaper until it is smooth, spray again...) After the fourth coat, I begin spraying clear. Wet sand after each coat of clear. The goal is to get it to look flat, almost matt finish. If you see little flecks of clear, sand more until it is all flat. Spray another coat of clear and repeat. After three or four coats of clear you can start upping from 1,000 (which you should have done after each coat) to 1,500, 2,000, 2,500, and then 3,000. I use a little bowl of water and do little circles of each type of sandpaper. Remember to rinse it every so often to get the gunk out of the sandpaper. After you go all the way to 3,000 and it is nice and smooth, buff it with polishing compound. That will change the matt finish back to shiney. If you see swirls, keep using the polishing compound. It will take them out. A decient finish should take about a week. (The sandpaper, paint, and polishing compound were at autozone.)

If you are set on using Nito paint, re-ranch is a good place to get paint. The thing with nito is it takes longer to dry. I have heard and found to be true that you can tell nitro is dry when it stops releasing the paint smell.

The body below I finished using duplicolor car paint from Autozone.


DSC03172 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr


DSC03171 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

Good luck!

[HNB]

Oh and for the painting itself, I have one of those threaded hooks you can get at the harware store for haning plants from the ceiling screwed in to a beam in my garage sealing. I hung a dog choke chain from that and use that to hang my guitar from while spraying so I can do all the sides, top and bottom. I took a metal coat hanger from a dry cleaner and cut it, bent the two wires at a 90 degree bend to feed through the back of the upper two holes for mounting the guitar neck. Once the poke through the front, I gently bend the ends sticking out slightly up to keep the guitar from sliding off them. That gives me a hook to hang the guitar from the chain. Lo tech, but it worked well for me.


DSC02918 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr


DSC02919 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

[HNB]

This is the paint I used on the guitar above. My next paint job will use it as well. I really like the stuff. It is easy to work with. (In my opinion.)

Duplicolor Perfect Match

[lahrs37]

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