Can I Wrap Recently Nitro'd Guitar in Blanket?

I wouldn't... Unless you're fond of the texture on the blanket.

 

Is your garage a quarter mile from your house or something? Just run.

 

Seriously though, after 12 hours of drying a blanket should be fine as long as it's not tacky, and it shouldn't be.

 

Welcome aboard!

Why not just use a guitar case? That way if you slip on the ice and fall on your face it may be protected a little better.

 

Leave it in the garage to dry. Leave the heater on. Why would you want solvents evaporating in your home?

 

I would use an electric blanket.

 

I second the advice to leave it in the garage. Those solvents will outgas for quite some time, and you don't want to be breathing those fumes.

 

Wait until the temperature and RH are both conducive to finishing (60+ F and less than 60% or whatever it says on your cans). You've put a lot of time into the guitar, don't screw it up by being impatient.

 

Don’t
Believe me don’t

 

You can go right to it. Lacquer is lacquer, regardless of pigment is added or not.

 

Nce work!

That is true. But like Freeman mentioned above, follow the instructions for temperature and humidity specified by the manufacturer. Don't shoot finish outside those parameters because you may end up wasting time and materials and have to redo it. Be patient, and allow the finish to cure within those same parameters.

Many builders will say two weeks to cure after final coat is sufficient prior to wet sanding and polishing. This is true only if you allow each coat to set hard before the next coat.

If you allow a previous coat to just flash off and then hit it with the next, it can take longer than two weeks to cure after the final coat because more solvents are trapped under the finish. The solvents permeate the wood and it takes longer for them to escape through a topcoat that's trying to set hard. This is one of the reasons you read about a builder getting a perfect mirror-like shine after polishing and then a month later there are sanding marks appearing in the finish.

Just like when shooting finish, "warm and dry" are ideal conditions for nitro to cure. Two weeks is good. Three is better. A month is even better.

 

To elaborate on what PeeGoo just said, different brands of lacquer will give different drying schedules. We have a professional finisher on this forum who insists that true nitrocellulose lacquer requires very little dry time but that some manufacturers add solvents which extend that time. In particular he says the StewMac products have naphtha which significantly extends the time you should let them dry.

I have shot both StewMac and several other brands of lacquer, both rattle cans and with a gun. When I first started I read Dan Erlewine's book and he recommends 2 to 3 weeks of drying time (he is also associated with SM) and that is what I have always used with every product. I've never had problems except for the one time when the humidity was too high (I knew it) and I got blushing that eventually required a complete refinish

Here is the SM schedule, follow it and mind the temp and RH and you will have no problems

https://www.stewmac.com/video-and-i...repair/nitrocellulose-finishing-schedule.html

 

Sure you can .

It's not like your strapping the blanket on with banding clamps.

What kind of lacquer are you using?

edit: Don't mind the question, I just saw you're using SM rattle-cans.
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Don't know how to handle it, but that sure is sweet looking!