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Originally Posted by Shoved BassVIII
Thats the fun part man....Cant wait....
I assume your finish will be something like the strat I plan to finish this winter...
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Very similar finish - but I'm trying to get a finish with just black sparkle, but it isn't very sparkley; looks more like a metallic. The black sparkle is much more subtle.
This piece of tas oak was covered in a thin layer of epoxy.
A very slight purple tint is added to the resin.
Then the sparkles were bucketed on. Then it was finished with a layer of super clear 2oz (thin like silk) glass. It's a bit of a "cheat" way to do a sparkle because the glass contains all the resin and "floats" on the surface ... so there's no need to do a million successive sprays of clear paint. It's a three-step then sand and polish process.
It's very hard to photograph, but you can see there are only a handful of sparkles reflecting - the sparkles have laid flat.
Next time I'll wait for the first layer to dry and then finish it with the glass.
These sparkles are soooo small that they would be better called "metal flake". So really I'm doing a metallic, not a sparkle.