...or do they need to be grain filled? Gonna soon be order a maple & pao ferro neck for my baritone Tele. I'd like to finish the maple myself with some nitro lacquer. Just wondering if I need to grain fill the maple or I can go straight ahead with the tinted clear coat? Also, I've seen photos of a guy finishing a maple with rosewood board neck and he only masked off the front of the board, not the rosewood sides. Presumably I'd want to mask off the sides too, or do people spray a bit of lacquer on the side of the fretboard?
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No need to grain fill the maple, it's usually pretty tight. what i would do if i were you is shoot it with a coat of clear (no tint) to start, that will be your "sealer" coat. then you can hit it with tinted clear until it's the shade you want before going back to regular clear for top coats. i wouldn't advise using tint for all of the coats since each pass will affect the amount of tint on the neck, and then once you start wetsanding you'd be taking off tint and affecting the shade as well.
it's better to spray some of the sides of the fretboard. i've heard it recommended that you tape off just past the bottom of the frets. when i did mine, i taped a couple cm's before the maple started, and in hindsight i wish i hadn't because there's a very obvious line where the lacquer ends. if i had it to do over again i'd tape after the frets.
it's better to spray some of the sides of the fretboard. i've heard it recommended that you tape off just past the bottom of the frets. when i did mine, i taped a couple cm's before the maple started, and in hindsight i wish i hadn't because there's a very obvious line where the lacquer ends. if i had it to do over again i'd tape after the frets.
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