Wet Sanding a Homemade Electric Guitar

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Frank Pope, FBI Guitars and I'm here on behalf of Expert Village to give you some tips on how to build your own guitar. Now that you've applied the finish to your guitar. You may have a run in it or you may have some trash, surface trash either from fuzz or just particles floating around in the air. And what happens next is the wet sanding stage. If you're using nitroscelulos laquer you can use 400 grit wet sandpaper on a sand block, a rubber sand block. You'll want to smooth all the surfaces. Then you'll move to 600 grit, 800 grit, 1000, 1500, and lastly 2000. If you are using two part acrylic and you have let it get past the first 8 hours and you did not wet sand it with 400 grit or 220 grit wet sandpaper, you may have to use a power tool on that finish. Use maybe 400 grit sandpaper, wet sand. Don't wet it, use it dry, on either of these sanders and you'll be able to get a smooth finish on the acrylic. Don't worry, when you sand it, it'll look amazingly like you'll never be able to get it clear again. Once you've sanded it and you get it smooth. Wipe it in denatured alcohol, respray it with acrylic and it'll be clear all the way down to the wood."