garrisongreen
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I am refinishing my VG Strat to a Surf Green color. I sanded off the original three color burst, stained the wood with Minwax oil stain just in case the paint either wears through or I decide to relic it some day, then did three coats of Bullseye unwaxed spray can shellac as a sanding sealer. I sanded to 220 between coats. Now I going straight to the color coats.
So I went to my local paint store to check out the options. Getting the Surf Green color was no problem in either and oil alkyd base or an acrylic water based latex. The paint store personnel felt that the oil based alkyd paint would spray better, so I decided to give it a try. I am using a Pre Val spray device where you fill the attached jar and then spray it through the pressurized can. I mixed the paint with a thinner, about two parts paint to one part thinner per the Pre Val instructions. I sprayed the first coat today fairly thin. The oil paint requires overnight drying between coats (a disadvantage I didn't really think about in the store) so this process could take a while as I expect to put at least four coats of color before clear coating.
I have seen very little discussion of the use of house paints like these to paint guitars, but nothing I read about these paints suggests any obvious reason why they wouldn't work. Am I missing something? Why is all the discussion about using poly and nitro? I understand the advantages and vintage appeal of nitro, but I like the idea of going down to my neighborhood store and having them mix the exact shade of paint I want rather than buying nitro mail order in premixed shades at $15 a can.
So, my question is: what's wrong with using house paint?
So I went to my local paint store to check out the options. Getting the Surf Green color was no problem in either and oil alkyd base or an acrylic water based latex. The paint store personnel felt that the oil based alkyd paint would spray better, so I decided to give it a try. I am using a Pre Val spray device where you fill the attached jar and then spray it through the pressurized can. I mixed the paint with a thinner, about two parts paint to one part thinner per the Pre Val instructions. I sprayed the first coat today fairly thin. The oil paint requires overnight drying between coats (a disadvantage I didn't really think about in the store) so this process could take a while as I expect to put at least four coats of color before clear coating.
I have seen very little discussion of the use of house paints like these to paint guitars, but nothing I read about these paints suggests any obvious reason why they wouldn't work. Am I missing something? Why is all the discussion about using poly and nitro? I understand the advantages and vintage appeal of nitro, but I like the idea of going down to my neighborhood store and having them mix the exact shade of paint I want rather than buying nitro mail order in premixed shades at $15 a can.
So, my question is: what's wrong with using house paint?