Sunday, August 10th, 2008: On Saturday I let the 3rd coat of Z-poxy on the back and sides sit for a while before I finally leveled it all down and put on a thinned coat. Today the first thing I did was to spray two coats of shellac (an hour apart) on the neck, which had been all leveled yesterday, as it had only needed two coats of the Z-poxy. Then I leveled the shellac seal coat on the top, and prepared everything for spraying the shellac seal coat. I attached a handle to the soundbox through one of the bolt holes. Then I found a margarine tub that was just the right size to fit snugly underneath the soundhole, to protect the insides from the spraying. Then I sprayed the soundbox with 2-lb. cut shellac (Zinsser Seal Coat), using a PreVal sprayer. (I did it this way because it's an easy way to do it and not have to pull out my compressor and spraygun until I was ready for the finish coats.) I sprayed outside, of course, but brought the guitar indoors afterwards (fewer bugs and all that way). When I spray, I hold the guitar by the handle and do what I can holding the soundbox horizontally. Then I place the handle in the bottom part of my roller stand, and I can spray it that way, as well.
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