I'm refinishing a 1988 Yamaha AE1200S. It's a solid wood guitar, solid spruce top, birch back and sides and maple neck. It originally had a sunburst and was finisihed in polyester but as it was made in Taiwan, it had bad milky clouding in the finish like many of them did. It is a great playing and sounding guitar, but I don't like sunbursts especially not heavy polyester blotchey clouded ones.
It's been sanded down carefully and has the first two coats of behlens vinyl sealer on it. I want to do two things before I proceed with the nitro topcoats.
I want to paint a stinger on the back of the headstock
and I want to do one light coat of amber/pine tint to give the finish a bit of an ambered lacquer look
I've had trouble with behlens black paint bleeding into nitro before so If I did that first I would want to hit the back of the headstock with another coat of vinyl sealer.
Then maybe amber and then clear topcoats?
Sound good?
