Reducer and Activator speed depends on the temperature of the environment where product will be applied. The 4:1 mix ratio Catamount High Solids Clear Kit makes 5 quarts of sprayable Clear, while the 2:1 mix ratio Catamount High Solids Euro Clear Kit makes 8 quarts, or 2 gallons of sprayable Clear. The Candy Color mixes 1:1 with the reducer making 2 Gallons of sprayable Candy. The Gold Base Color mixes 1:1 with the reducer making 2 Gallons of sprayable Base. Also, your choice of a 4:1 mix ratio Gallon of Catamount High Solids Clear with Quart Activator (your choice of Activator speed), or a 2:1 mix ratio 5 Liter of Catamount High Solids Euro Clear with 2.5 Liter Activator (your choice of Activator speed).Įverything needed to create an incredibly deep custom candy effect, with an ultra high gloss finish, and long durability.Two Gallons of Reducer (your choice of speed).We concentrated on bringing a distinctive custom Candy effect in an incredibly user friendly system. Plus the Sanding Sealer prep previously of course.Our Basecoat Candy Kits are formulated to be the absolute best quality at an affordable price. If you look closely you might see that I’ve missed a bit of orange peel here and there that I’ll go back to. Buffing using T-Cut The buffed area gleaming Once the orange peel was mostly eliminated I buffed to a high gloss using my favourite T-Cut on mutton cloth. I started with 400 grit then went through 8 to 1500 grit using a rubber sanding block on flat areas. The next step once the lacquer is hard enough is to flat sand to remove any orange peel. Spraying a clear coat gives a barrier against this and maintains an even colour to the red layer. The reason for spraying a clear coat is that if the Clear Red were flat sanded, it would be made thinner (and therefore paler) in patches. I sprayed a whole can of Clear Gloss and then left it to harden. The gloss top coat is shiny right out of the can You can see I have a bit of roughness to the finish at this point, caused by spraying in non-ideal conditions (a strong breeze!) I didn’t sand though as the clear gloss coats would smooth everything out. If I had wanted a darker red, I could have sprayed more coats. Spraying the red, first coat very lightĪ whole can of Clear Red has been applied. The first few passes of red were applied very light to avoid disturbing the metallic. Once the metallic layer was done it was time to start applying the Clear Red. First pass of gold lacquer over the primer Gold lacquer layer is done Here’s the first coat which you can see is quite transparent but it soon builds. I could have used a different gold or Inca Silver. Once the primer was on I sanded it smooth ready for the gold layer. The first step is to spray a coat of white primer to give an even base for the metallic layer. You can use a prepped body in sanding sealer of course! I think this could be for one of two reasons: firstly Fender may have had a special order for a custom colour and not had any bare bodies so used a stock sunburst body or secondly they may have just been sunbursts gone wrong that were sprayed over to hide a mistake. This is actually something that Fender often did as it’s not unusual to find a sunburst under a custom colour. I’m using the Guitarbuild body that I previously sprayed with a 2-tone sunburst. I have itemised the process in my Lacquer FAQs. Candy Apple Red is based on the old custom car technique of spraying clear lacquer over a metallic base coat, and was Fenders only truly “custom” colour, all the others being repurposed car finishes. Below I’ll show how to achieve a Candy Apple Red finish on a Stratocaster body.
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