part 2 T-Bird refinish
 

8 coats of sealer sanded every two coats.

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Sanded once again and ready for primer.


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First of 2 coats of primer....sanding in between.


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Sand it one more time. Check for flaws and I should be good to go for the color coats this weekend. Altogether I think the sanding count is around 16 times. This is more than just painting a fender style body. It's a big plank of wood. It's like painting an aircraft carrier.

More later, we still have color coats and sanding, Then clear coats and sanding. Then sanding a buffing.

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Dakota was the winner....

I'm a heretic, but I prefer a beat up finish :D

You could do a Pino Palladino thing, and shoot the red over desert sand, so when it wears you see that underneath. And are you going to use nitro or poly?

I was waiting for you to weigh in. Finish shminish I can take it either way, but I've been wanting a new bass, but then the new birds suck.I want an eb-2, but stupid expense. This was screwed up bad and hopefully I got her straightened away. I thought of things like fixing the finger board and refretting it. I even though about going fretless. But then I came to my senses and said it played well up to the night I dropped it sooooo I decided to just do the repair and refinish, put it all back together and play it. THEN decide if I need to address anything else which I doubt.

using nitro all the way. base coat won't matter as Dakota red is a solid color.

Pino's bass is Fiesta Red over Desert Sand. While the red is opaque, you can see the finish underneath at the wear points.

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gold or maybe silver under the Dakota could be nice. It's a darker red. This bass was Fiesta red before I stripped it away. It was a little too salmon colored. This is Fenders darkest/reddest red and identical to Gibsons cardinal red. Both were a 1958 cadillac color. very few vintage birds were cardinal red.

Yeah this looks beat to death. LOL.

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looking at that pic...that's really a short scale huh.

no, that is 35" scale. Here is a 30" scale next to it. Wait until you see what shows up tomorrow :p

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another sadowsky?

Nope. Much more on the retro side of things. I think you'll approve (no, not a T-bird).

explorer? steinberger? telecaster? rick? hofner? mosrite? am i warm? you have piqued my interest with "retro".

i love the bookmatched wood on the top.

teaser pic from the for sale ad

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yer a dog! very cool so far.

Man, hope your paint job turns out better than the one I was working on....

got pics?

Todd wouldn't it be cheaper to be racing a 911 again?

basses don't break...usually.

All my basses added together don't add up to the transmission rebuild. And I've got some nice basses :p