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Christian Olsson · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

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Christian Olsson · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

9000SC half satin-sanded / half buffed to high gloss
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Christian Olsson · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

9000 SC
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Jeff Weiss · Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 5:51 am Post subject:

Nicely done !

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kcasper · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 111 Location: SE Michigan

Beautiful Christian! I just finished up an ocean burst Tele. Here are a couple of photos of it. Colors on the indoor pic are more what the burst looks like--I lost the green in the outdoor photo, making the guitar look all blue. I also tried a water slide decal under the EM6000, and it worked like a champ!

Ken

Christian Olsson · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 12

[quote="kcasper"]Beautiful Christian! I just finished up an ocean burst Tele. Here are a couple of photos of it. Colors on the indoor pic are more what the burst looks like--I lost the green in the outdoor photo, making the guitar look all blue. I also tried a water slide decal under the EM6000, and it worked like a champ!

Ken

Very nice looking guitar, Ken! Very Happy

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Bob V · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 570 Location: Glen Head New York

Ken, is the color in your decal from the printer or did you ink it in between the lines?

kcasper · Joined: 20 Jan 2008 Posts: 111 Location: SE Michigan

Bob, the color in the decal is from my printer. I printed it, shot it with a couple of coats of non-water based lacquer, cut it out and put it on, then shot 10 to 12 coats of EM6000 over the top. I did have several base coats of EM6000 down and leveled prior to installing the logo. The logo was modeled from the Fender logo on my '99 tele. I tried to get a reasonable approximation.

Ken

gillactus · Joined: 02 Nov 2011 Posts: 3

Hello everyone. Here's my first post and my first time using Target products. It's a little less than traditional but I'm quite happy with the results.

Bob V · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 570 Location: Glen Head New York

Reminds me of the decoupage lunchboxes my sister used to make using shellac. Only yours doesn't have an amber tinge to the topcoating.

Jeff Weiss · Posted: Fri Nov 04, 2011 6:38 am Post subject:

Now that's a horse of a different color! Well done!
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burningyen · Joined: 02 Nov 2011 Posts: 13 Location: NYC

Nice, gillactus! Would you mind explaining your process?
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gillactus · Joined: 02 Nov 2011 Posts: 3

Thanks, guys!

@Jeff: It wouldn't have been possible without your top notch products. Thank you.

@Ben: There isn't too much to explain. I cut out the comics and glued them on to an unfinished body, just like arts and crafts time back in pre-school. I gradually built up some thickness with EM1000 before leveling it all out (since the comics were nowhere near flat after gluing) then used EM6000 for a topcoat. A labour intensive project, to say the least, but tons of fun!

Dennis · Joined: 16 Jun 2010 Posts: 7

The more I use this stuff, the more I'm in love with it. Everything here is a version of 6000, some satin some gloss, some with TC sealer underneath, some without. Really got my gun dialed in perfectly for the TC products recently, and it's been a joy to use since...

Couldn't be happier. The purple kit was buffed using the arbor & compound kit from Stew-Mac, the 6000 flows great with that setup.