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I'm doing my first build and I'm really not sure what product to use to finish it. I'm making a telecaster and i want it to be a dark transparent red, I don't want a solid colour. I wanted to use nitro but I don't have the resources to apply it safely or succesfully so I think I'm going to go with waterbase lacquer. Is waterbase still ok to use, I want to eventually do nice gibson like sunburst.

thanks,

Dylan

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" Blues is a low down achin chill, if you ain't never had it, I hope you never will."

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Get some EM6000 and some transtint dyes and you should be good to go. If you search the forum you should yield a lot of results on different waterbased lacquers, I like EM6000

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John Thiessen
http://www.iszacguitars.com

what about the color tone stuff off of stew mac

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" Blues is a low down achin chill, if you ain't never had it, I hope you never will."

Robert Johnson