So this story really started about two yrs ago when I ran across this antique dealer on eBay. Apparently, he purchased an old theater that someone had been using for storage. Or maybe he bought the contents of the theater. I don't know. But among the items that were inside, there were hundreds of cans of old acrylic lacquer in pints & quarts. I jumped on a dozen or so over a period of a month. The internet has a way with colors, so it really was a crap shoot as to what I was buying would look like on a piece of wood. I was excited, but the stuff sat on a shelf in my garage for a long time.
In May of this year, I had my hip replaced. I was out of commission for quite a while. As I started to heal, I remembered all the paint I had stored in the garage. Out there were also a bunch of Strat & Tele styled bodies that have similarly languished. So I bought some expensive reducer, fired up my compressor, & away we go. Here are some of the results:
