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The only thing I can imagine that is guaranteed to resist marking and dents would be a poly coating of CBS/Fender Seventies proportions. This will not show the wood off at its best.
Wipe-on oil or wax-oil finishes would highlight the wood but not necessarily protect against dings from real world playing conditions.
That will possibly be thinner than a proper coat of nitro and much, much tougher. But you may need to get it to a pro to do...
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I'm going to look into General finishes, and Rustin's..
I'm building a bass body using lightweight paulownia. It's strong but pretty soft and easily dinted. It has to be (owner's choice) Shell Pink nitro with a clear gloss over the top of that.
I have three thoughts:
Either
- Cellulose Sanding seal
- General finishes water-based
- Cellulose Primer
- Nitro Shell Pink
- Nitro Gloss
or
- Cellulose Sanding seal
- Cellulose Primer
- Nitro Shell Pink
- General Finishes water-based gloss
or
- CA glue the whole surface as surface hardener and sanding seal
- Cellulose Primer
- Nitro Shell Pink
- Nitro Gloss
Any of the above three or none of them?
Super not an expert, so I'll bow out. I like general finishes but I doubt it's compatible with nitro...
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Epoxy or CA would definitely help, but will wait and see how you get on.
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Oh, and it's ridiculously cheap compared to other finishes. But it does need some care in application and plenty of rags.
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Interesting.. Any links to technique videos or tutorials? Have just taken delivery of some Rustin's, but could be persuaded otherwise...
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So this gluboost is basically a fancy kind of mitre bond? (2 part superglue?) Might just try some mitre bond on a bit of scrap, see how it turns out ..