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Drop filling guidance
I’m hoping someone can provide step-by-step instruction and tips for drop filling.
I understand the principle: Drip lacquer onto the void until it’s slightly overfilled, then sand level and polish. It’s the sanding part that I’d like guidance on. If all goes well, you sand and polish, but if you sand through it’s a whole different kettle ‘o fish. That’s the part I’m most nervous about. I have two projects for this. One is a guitar with a couple of small dings; the other is a car with stone chips. Obviously, I’ll be using matching paint for the car, it I’m guessing (hoping) that the same principles apply. |
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Maximizing scraping and minimizing sanding yields a flatter result. Use backer for sanding. Fingers can cause depressions. On a car with metallic paint, a perfect reflection will a make an imperfect paint match less obvious.
http://www.frets.com/FretsPages/Luth.../dropfill.html https://www.stewmac.com/video-and-id...ade-trick.html |
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Only use Nitro if the finish is indeed nitro... Assuming that is what you mean by lacquer. Otherwise CA works amazingly well and you would do it in the same manor you mention.
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The finish is indeed Nitro. Is there any benefit to using CA instead of nitro?
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Sent you a pm, there is one for drip filling with super glue and one for drip filling nitro, nitro one is titled "How to Repair Lacquer Chips"
Steve
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The luthier I go to thinks someone maybe put tape
on my CF-100... he "drop filled" some of the marks and made it better. Who would put tape on their guitar ? ! ! ? I've since seen how Billy Strings taped one of the microphones onto his guitar ... so one answer is "people who use their guitars as tools for work" might put tape on their guitars... -Mike |
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For Nitro finishes I like to use nitro drop fill.
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The only benefit of using CA to drop fill on lacquer is speed. Lacquer takes days to finish curing, otherwise it will shrink and leave a depression. CA is often harder than lacquer, and will tend to stick up above the lacquer after buffing.
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