Fix Those Ugly Runs In Your Guitar's Finish
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- Опубликовано: 6 май 2019
- There's got to be a better way to fix the runs that can happen when you apply paint or clear coats to heavy. Sanding them down can ruin the surrounding finish. Here's a technique that will prevent fix those runs without sanding through the finish.
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Thank you for another great tip. My condolences to you and your city for your recent tragedy. Your city is in our thoughts.
Thanks again for all of your inspiration.
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Clearly your community has been through enough.
As soon as you said water soluble fill I knew where this was going. 40 years of woodworking and never thought of that. Brilliant! Thankyou
That is a very good tip Chris. Never seen it done before. Cheers!
Man this is just brilliant. One of the best tricks i learned online so far
This trick can be used for all types of projects not only guitars. I've been combing the internet trying to find a way to fix the botch job I've done on the kitchen table I'm refinishing, without having to strip it and start over. You my man are a lifesaver!!!!
Very clever! At first I didn’t know where you were going with this, but the fact that it protects the surrounding finish was worth waiting for!
Best tip ever, always a pain to get these runs out without damaging the finish. Thx man!
Thank you for this short and to the point video, you most likely just saved me from making a mess of my very first strat build... I was a little heavy handed in a couple spots!
Very Helpful. Can't wait to see your whole finishing video for this guitar.
That's a great tip......What I normally do is wait for the lacquer to fully cure, then take a new razor blade and put a nice burr on it, then cut the corners off.....then I slowly, and lightly start scraping the run until I get about 3/4 of the way down, then get another new blade, but this time, no burr, cut corners off, and finish with that until it is easily sandable and ready for wetsanding......but I've done it your way as well.....great tip, and love yur channel!!
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I think your way is much better, just try not damage the color.
Now that is a great tip! Just about the most useful thing I have heard this year! This is something I have suffered with a lot and now I know what to do lol. Thanks for sharing
Genius. The simple solutions can be the best. A light bulb went off as you were adding the compound. Thanks, because I just sprayed a run onto my guitar body.
Glad it helped!
Absolutely excellent video and process. Thank you for sharing.
I just had that gut sinking feeling, when I saw a decent run and wondered how much work I was in for (shouldn’t rush, should I!). Especially given this is the first guitar I’m doing for someone else. This is a great tip. Thanks again Chris 😅
Thanks for the great tip! Will definitely use this technique on my next runs.
Great tip! I can't tell you how many times I've done exactly what you said when trying to fix a drip....it is so frustrating! Thank you for this
Thanks for the tip, you may have just saved my current build.
Wow this was so helpful..!! I thought i would have to repaint it all over until i watched this. Keep up the good work man.!!
What a great idea!!! I have some runs on some very expensive speakers I managed to stuff up on my fourth coat and this seems to make sense. Thanks heaps.
Fantastic tip. Really appreciate you sharing this and making it so easy to follow!
Glad it was helpful!
Outstanding technique Chris!
Thank you for sharing g it with us! Much appreciated.
The best tip I've seen in a long while.
Great tip. I am working on my first painting project and sanded out a drip and now I have to respray that area. It's a test project, so no big deal, but I'll know what to do in the future. Thanks!
That was awesome! Look at you showing some personality at the end!
Great to know. I really don't know what it is I'm doing. But it seems that I am the master of the paint and finish runs. I mean no matter how thin of a coat I put on, the next day I will check my project and it's run city ! But thank you for giving me a tool to fight that problem.😁
Whoa I was losing my mind on why all my finish was getting wrecked by drips then destroyed by sanding away…I have grain filler but didn’t think I needed to use it TIL NOW you saved my guitar thank you!!
Thank you for this tip!!! I have ended up sanding a finish back to the bare wood on more than one occasion...this will save me time and money! YAYYYYYYYYY
wow thanks! Learning this trick makes the idea of the first few tries at finishing a lot less stressful!
Great tip and beautiful guitar!
Thanks for all your tips and technics
Chris, you saved my guitar build. thank you!!
Super timely viewing this! Thanks!
Awesome tip, thank you very much, and for all the other stuff in your channel.
Amazing. Never would have thought of that.
I have some old wood dining room chairs that someone must have slopped the shellac on. I'm going to try this to remove the runs this way as I really do not want to strip and refinish them. Wish me luck! Thanks for sharing this method!!
Excellent tip, just what I was looking for. Many thanks.
This tip is genius! I will try to get the drips off my table if the sealer hasn't hardened too much. Thanks!
Thanks! I'm in the process of finishing my guitar, and this tip is perfect!
Thanks for the tip, Trygve. I hope your project is a success and that my videos help. More to come!
Nice solution. Simple and effective!
Chris you are a savior!!! THANK YOU FOR THIS ONE!
Happy to help!
Fantastic! Thanks for the tip.
another example of auto-related fixes. I really like this vid!
What a wonderful tip! Thanks
This was so incredibly helpful, wish I saw this before sanding through my clear into the paint below. Luckily black primer and paint goes on super easy. I’ll have the right trick up my sleeve next time 🙏
That's a great trick. BTW I used Walnut Timbermate on my first experience finishing with grain filling. It was an ash body with satin nitro and it turned out quite well. If I ever do it again I'll surely use Timbermate again.
I wish I had seen this a week ago! Ah well, the spot fix and re-spray is now hanging up to cure.
I literally just sprayed yesterday and noticed a drip in my clear coat, this is great! I'll be trying this out today!
Did it work?
MUCH better than the first 45 second video, lol. Thanks!
I edit with iMovie. It used to be great. It isn't anymore.
Good idea. I have taken to filling in 'pits' or 'scratches' with touchup lacquer and cyanoacrylate rather than 'sand them out'. CA dries proud of the surface and lacquer touch up sinks in the middle and leaves a 'rim'. I'll use This method to safely level things up again! Thanks for the tip.
Wonderful idea. I'm building drums, not guitars but this is gonna be very useful! Thanks!
Nice tip. Thanks for sharing.
Just ran into that problem today, perfect timing...!
Thanks for the great tip again chris !!
That is brilliant. My technique so far has been to cuss a lot, try to sand it off, re-finish it, see it is obviously mismatched, cuss some more, and sand the whole damn thing down and re-finish it again.
ER Webster been there
Great idea. This really helps. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Great tip, thank you for the advice.
You bet!
Excellent! This is exactly what I needed!
I love this channel.
This technice is awsome I always wondered how to correct this problem thank you so much for this info.
This is a fantastic tip!
That is an awesome tip .thanks so much.
Yep, another great one. Thanks for sharing.
Genius! Thank you
Magical!!! Wow great tip!
Really helpful, thanks!
Just went thru everything you just said in your opening. Had a great color and finish going on, then when I covered with wipe on Poly....I could tell right away it was too thick and was not going to settle out. And it didn't. My predominant thought was, if I try to "fix" this I will end up screwing the entire job up. I chickened out, and decided to just burnish the entire guitar with a brown paper bag. It brought up the sheen, and somehow made it a bit more homogenous looking. Enough that I think I will just leave it as is. Great tip buy the way, but again I am concerned about making it worse, which I seem to be very good at.
Thanks you have just pulled me out of the brown stuff.
Thanks! Great tip.
Thank you! This will save some time.
Awesome tip thanks dude
That's flipping brilliant.
Thank you, and thank RUclips 🙏🤯
Nice tip! Hope I don’t need to try it any time soon
Great vid, thank you!
Thanks, I am building my first guitar and I hung it from a coat hangar to spray the polyurethane. I ended up with 3 drips at the bottom of the guitar body. This will save my finish.
Good man, thanks for sharing.
No problem!
BRILLIANT!!!
Great tip thanks!
Glad it was helpful!
great tip
Thats smart, i will try this next time☺
Great tip
This is great
That’s a great idea. I always use to use nitro so drip never were a problem as you just melted the next round in but recently started testing o some poly finishes so this tip is going to be really useful cheers . Just curious What clear coat do you use mate ?
OMG! I literally have been struggling with this exact issue for 2 weekends now. I started with 2 small areas with runs. And ended up with 2 big areas that now need serious attention and complete "do over". I should of just left them alone and done some research on how to fix it properly. This is my first ever build so I admit I don't know what I'm doing. I ended up sanding through my lacquer, sealer, and aniline dye trying to fix this. I can't wait to try this technique next time I get "the runs".
I turned a 1/2 hour fix into 2 whole weekends of throwing foam brushes around my garage and screaming "4 letter words". 😫😭🤬
Spectt84 that’s alright man, you learn more from the mistakes on your first build than from the things that go smoothly.
You are not alone, my friend. Been there, done that. The biggest difference between a pro and a beginner is: The pro knows the best ways to fix their mistakes without making things worse. Lol. Even the pros occasionally have over spray, sanding marks, runs, drips, orange peal, swirl marks... you name it. Over time they learn (sometimes the hard way). Good luck with your project. 🎸
Oh, crap. I just noticed this was a year ago... 🤪. Hope your guitar turned out ok.
I've learned not t+ panic when things go wrong with my finishing work. I can watch a few YT videos and there's usually a few great tips waiting to be found.
interesting tip chris, never tried that one, i normally file them down and sand after.
Great tips as always! Potentially stupid question, but you talk about using water-based Timbermate, is this reliant on the finish you're using being water-based too? What would you use if you're using an oil-based finish?
Thnx, great video. How does it look like afterwards, can you please post it .....
you genie of guitars
Thanks
If you're using Timbermate, keep the dust and clean up whatever's left on the guitar with just a small amount of water. Water reactivates Timbermate and you can use it over and over - saves waste and saves money.
I'm looking for this online and there are a bunch of different colors. So I choose the one closest to the color of the finish? I'm doing golden oak but they don't have a golden oak grain filler.
thank you
Great!
how do finish paint sp the electric guitar body wth binding inlay. are covering it or scrape every coat painted. or what ever is the best thing to do.
I'm sure I'll be using this tip
Hi , great tip ! Do you have to let the clear coat cure fully , or is still a bit tacky Ok? I used a brush applied polyester clear surfboard resin that i tested first , and was smooth , but on the guitar gelled up before full coverage , no it looks like clear Rockies!Thank you
It sounds like the polyester started to cure as you were applying it.
Could you use any wood grain Filler that's water based?
Genius, I'm dealing with some runs myself right now. I've using shellac on my guitar for the first time. I'm curious thought.... I don't have any timbermate and really shouldn't make another trip to the hardware store but I do have plaster of Paris mix, the stuff where you just add water??? Can I use that?
Only you can answer that.
Thanks for thus helpful tip! I have a question from an older video you published on using wipe on poly...if you are going for a high gloss finish, do you wipe the excess poly off after a few minutes, or just leave it to dry without wiping off the excess. You seem to imply the latter, but I’m not sure that was what you intended. Clarification would be appreciated!
If I'm going for a high gloss finish, I'll spray water-based poly. It's faster. However, if you must wipe on, I would apply it heavy and let it dry without wiping off the excess. That way you can build it up faster before level sanding.
Ok, thanks! Something like Minwax Polycrylic? How many coats would you recommend? I would probably err a bit on the higher side in terms of number if coats...I find it all to easy to sand through while level sanding.
I seen this tip years ago. It does work pretty well. Why no final results, Chris?
It's not done. As I write this, I have only sprayed 2 coats. I have about 10 more to do. Next week I will post a detailed episode on this particular guitar finish. Two weeks after that, I'll post the end result.
@@HighlineGuitars - I knew there was a good reason! Keep up the good work and great content! Cheers!