Stuff You Should Know
Guitar Paints and Lacquers
Cellulose Paint(Solid) Cellulose Paint(Metallic) Nitrocellulose Lacquer(Clear) Nitrocellulose Lacquer(Tinted) Waterborne Lacquer(Clear) Waterborne Lacquer(Tinted) Waterborne Paint Can be sprayed? Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Yes Can be brushed? No No...
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How To Finish A Guitar Body
Find out below the process and materials required to finish a guitar body in a variety of guitar finishes and for a selection of the most common and popular guitar...
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Comparison of Clear Lacquers
We are often asked "which lacquer is best for my project?". Wood finishes can be a baffling world, many types of finish each with their own characteristics, their own advantages...
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Cellulose Paint vs Nitrocellulose Lacquer
Nitrocellulose lacquers and cellulose paints are often confused due to differing terminology used in different places at different times. We've compiled the comparison table below to try to clear up...
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Can Oil and Grain Filler Be Used Together?
No, generally speaking oil and grain filler are incompatible. Both products work by filling in the pores of the wood, so using either will prevent the other from working as...
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How to convert between inches and metric
TERMINOLOGY Like all good stories this one starts with clarification of terminology and notation formats. Inches can be written in a few ways: Fractions, as X-Y/Z". X is whole inches. Y/Z...
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