Paul, please help me even out the seam

[admin]

Great work Paul and Paul.

[johnallg]

I'm impressed. After looking at the before first picture, then the highly reflective Scratch-X/Zymol picture, you wouldn't think it was the same bass. Nice!

[ajish4]

I just LOVE a happy ending!

That looks GREAT, sure is much nicer than that MEAN looking DING!

[rikk]

Wow, that looks great!

[jingle_jangle]

And, I've got to deliver this caveat--Paul's bass had an extra-thick layer of clearcoat that he leveled and polished to that result.

Anybody attempting this with factory clearcoat needs to be extra careful, lest they sand through into bare maple! This sand-through will even show on Mapleglo, unless the guitar or bass is less than a few months old.

[johnallg]

After looking at the before picture I figured the clear coat had to be fairly thick, as the repair edge really stood out. I also realize 1000 grit paper is not very abrasive at all, but I would be very nervous using it on a factory CC layer. As you point out it is very thin by comparison. Those realizations still added to my amaze of the results.

Man I love these kinds of threads.

[jingle_jangle]

Factory clearcoat is very flexible (read, soft and forgiving, like Michelle Malkin...), and 1000 is not really that abrasive, but those who feel a bit jiggly (like...oh, never mind) about sanding with this, might want to try the StewMac micro sanding blocks:

http://www.stewmac.com/shop/Finishing_s ... _Pads.html

They're far less abrasive than you-know-who.

[collin]

Well done, Pauls!

Paul Yan----terrific Job, the Chapstick top sanding block idea is great! Good thinking.

[paul_yan]

Thanks, Collin!

Yes, as Paul pointed out, the new coat that covered the ding was thicker than the original. I was lucky that I didn't sand off the original.

Again, mega thanks to you, Paul!