'plastic Coating' On Painted Guitar.

Answerprancer | 01:09 Mon 12th Jan 2015 | Hobbies & Interests

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I am planning to re-finish the body of an electric guitar and was wondering if Rustin's Plastic Coating would sit ok on an undercoat of car spray colour.
Obviously I've tried researching this in the usual places but drawn a blank.
TIA for any help.

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What I was planning to do was 1) go over the existing paintwork with 1200 grit wet/dry 2) respray with some nice colour from Halfords then rather than using their clear lacquer, use plastic coating because I think it dries faster and harder.

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Ok ...many thanks for that, the body I was looking at was this: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Telecaster-guitar-body-with-pickguard-red-green-blue-or-black-finish-TL-style-/160990986433?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&var=&hash=item257bcf80c1. (I would be throwing out the nasty pick-guard!)
The alternative would be to start with a pre-made unfinished basswood body (which I assume would need to be pre-sealed before painting). By art-spray do you mean something water-soluble or acrylic?

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...or again alternatively, I could seek out an unfinished alder body then finish it with Plastic Coating (?) A friend of mine recommended Brandoni in Wembley.

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