You hit that on the head. Only California and Ohio have the strangest laws
regarding paint. (So I have been told about Ohio)?
Yet there are some places where you can still get Acrylic enamel (in Sonora
for one).
And the urethane that you can still shoot is so robbed of the original
chemicals that depending on the color. . it can be a real pain to shoot.
Guy brings me this Japanese Tele body, an Electra from the mid 1970's.
Wanted it in urethane for some reason (I shoot nitro 99% of the time that I
order on line).
Nice body, sandwiched woods like a Les Paul. . mahogany and maple.
Next morning I come out to check the job and see nothing but dry river bed
type cracks all over it. Bright white. . which shot like spackle no matter
how I thinned it or which reducer I tried.
Like a stubborn idiot I try to knock back the cracks only to lose opacity.
. shoot it again to gain opacity and the cracks re-appear.
I ended up shooting it in acrylic lacquer (customer did not want to wait the
extended time for the nitro to dry).
It came out perfect. . and the stuff was easy to use. Glass surface after
cutting and buffing with my big guitar factory buffing wheels.
If I am not using nitro it is like walking in a mine field with the VOC
removals that have been going on (binders being the issue no doubt).
I have several colors in water based and when I use them I mix up my own
reducer (much less money). I use alcohol in a pure water mix along with
liquid glycerin that I get from Fleet enemas. . the glycerin works as a
binder. It will not shoot correctly without the glycerin.
That with a touch of Windex and you have a fantastic reducer. But all my
water based stuff is reserved for airbrush art as it is all in the
transparent realm.
So just after finally finishing this Tele I had to chime in regarding the
laws that have been enacted regarding finish materials here in Cali.
Fortunately you can still order nitro in small amounts on line. . they
haven't got a hold of that "yet".
Kirk
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