Surf Green Vintage Strat Build

[Hagwood]

My first in the ‘Vintage Fender Colors Inspired by Car Colors’ series…

Alder body, so just sprayed 3 coats of Sanding Sealer and lightly sanded with 400, now ready to shoot the primer. I want to use all Fender parts and already have most of the hardware from previous builds, including Texas Special pickups. OK, not totally vintage, gotta also have locking tuners, but will look ‘mostly vintage’. It will have a Fender 6 point Trem.

My pickups and pick guard are white, I’m thinking an off-white would look more vintage, but Fender has like 4 different whites…..

Also while I have the booth set up going to experiment with some scrap wood shooting bursts with tinted lacquer, tint in acetone, etc. going to be a fun day !!!

 

[Spud]

My first in the ‘Vintage Fender Colors Inspired by Car Colors’ series…

Alder body, so just sprayed 3 coats of Sanding Sealer and lightly sanded with 400, now ready to shoot the primer. I want to use all Fender parts and already have most of the hardware from previous builds, including Texas Special pickups. OK, not totally vintage, gotta also have locking tuners, but will look ‘mostly vintage’. It will have a Fender 6 point Trem.

My pickups and pick guard are white, I’m thinking an off-white would look more vintage, but Fender has like 4 different whites…..

Also while I have the booth set up going to experiment with some scrap wood shooting bursts with tinted lacquer, tint in acetone, etc. going to be a fun day !!!

I am really impressed with the Wilkenson/Gotoh VSVG 6 hole trem, it stays in tune very well. In case you ar looking.

 

[Hagwood]

The Oxford primer went down great. I’ll give it 24 hours, lightly sand, and shoot that beautiful Surf Green on tomorrow…..

 

[Hagwood]

 

[Spud]

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Is there a chance of over spray getting on the vehicle?!!

 

[Hagwood]

Is there a chance of over spray getting on the vehicle?!!

No, the filtration works really well in the booth. It vents out the sides with a 2 layer filter on each side. Haven’t seen anything get past ‘em yet, but they’re getting a little ‘painty’. Need to figure out how to clean or replace them.