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What is the proper sequence for a birdseye maple neck that will be finished in clear lacquer?  Is it necesary to fill or use a sanding sealer?  Also, does anyone use sanding sealer before a grain fill?  What about a clear water based grain fill?

I appreciate your offer to buy me out of my mess.  I am actually committed to making it work.  I have a nice pickguard, pickups, and all of the hardware for it, and had it together and played it a couple of months back.  It sounded great.  I am actually making good progress with it. I sprayed...

Well thanks for all of the info.  I am going to try real hard today to get a usable picture posted.  Sounds like I may be back to the beginning again.  I agree that the mistakes are what you learn the most from.  Not being sure exactly what caused it I will just have to try to eliminate all of...

Well, I cannot say I am happy to hear your diagnoses of my problem, but I kind of had a feeling from the way it looked that I was in for bad news.  How about instead of trying to sell it I pretend that I was looking to do a relic look all along.  Just kidding. It is all clear nitro over...

Sorry about the scetchy postings.  I cannot see my text in the text box when I am typing.  I do not knowwhat the issue is.

Oh, one other thing that may be of importance is that although San Diego is usually in the 70's it does get down to the 30s -40s in the evening this time of year.  My workshop is in the garage so it probably gets to the 40s in there at night, when it gets that cold.  Don't know if that would...

Oh, I waited a week between each coat of nitro. One other thing is that I did dry it outside on some days. While it is usually in the 70s here it does get cool at night, occasionally down to mid 30'sOne coat of Vinyl Sealer About five or six coats of McFadden black and then clear grain filler. ...

I recently finished my first build.  It is a Tele Deluxe mahogony body and neck finished with clear nitro over black grain filler.  I did some earlier posting and finished it too fast my first go around. This time, I waited nearly four weeks after my last coat and sanded/polished it to a nice...

I noticed you indicate you are using an American Fender strat hardtail bridge.  I am also building a tele deluxe, been months do a lacquer job on it, and when I did a test assembly I noticed the string spacing seems to be off a bit.  It is close but no matter how I adjust it there seem to be two...

What bridge did you use there?

Oh, so far I have only used the oil based sandable sealer and a couple coats of vinyl sealer before the black filler to make applicationn easier and to protect the rest of the surface from  the black filler.  The surface is now real smooth.  Three coats of black filler followed by three coats of...

On my first go around I used Mohawk  spray toner to get an amber tint to the body and neck. I was somewhat unsattisfied with the results as it was not as even and there were some spotts from splatter.  I was considering doing a couple  coats of the amber shellac I have seen everyone mentioning ...

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