Finish work :: Martin-style nitro sunbursts
I occasionally do finish / setup work to help other builders out. These two Brazilian Martin-style builds were prepped for finish, then sprayed and buffed out in nitrocellulose lacquer.
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1987 Carvin DC-150 :: belly carve.
This is being stripped and refinished with light transparent nitro burst. The player decided that since it was stripped, we should add a comfort carve to the back where it contacts your ribs. Here it is roughed out with my new Lie-Nielsen spokeshaves.
1987 Carvin DC-150 :: strip and refinish.
Here I'm sanding off the clear poly finish to prep it for a transparent nitro sunburst. At first I tried the heat gun / pallet knife trick but it was not going very well. Like, at all. Could be that the finish is fairly thin (for poly) and my knife had a thing for trying to gouge into the quilted maple. No good.
Luckily this is a flat top and back, so sanding goes fairly quickly. But my poor little compressor can't feed the orbital sander for very long so I have to take frequent breaks to let it build up pressure again. This places a larger compressor firmly on the shop wish-list.
I hope to get this into the booth this weekend.