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Greetings,
I'm ready to finish a Beard roundneck kit. Neck's no problem but the plywood body has rather unattractive grain on the veneer, plus I accidently sanded through the thin outer veneer in a few places truing up the sides for binding and scraping the binding. It takes stain unevenly and looks bad. You guys ever just use a primer (like that shellac based white B.I.N stuff Zinsser makes) to cover the grain and spray color coats and clear over that?
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Terry

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Use the zinsser seal coat shellac and ad some universal pigment in the color wanted. Add as much as you want until you achieve the opacity required ( try it on a sample). Then go to your standard finish schedule.

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Dean

Thanks Dean!
Terry

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