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After wetsanding the body on my EVH Camo guitar, I noticed what appeared to be dust in the clearcoat. Upon further inspection, what I found has occured was "solvent pop". Solvent pop is when tiny air bubbles are trapped in the paint and is usually caused by spraying your coats too heavy. 
Here's a closer look ...
There are a few tricks you can do to try to get them out, or at least make them less obvious. Fellow forum member MM2002 was a great help in giving me some tips, but unfortunately the only thing that seemed to work was to sand them out. Well ... because the paintjob is done in layers, it was impossible to sand it all out without sanding through the paint.
It broke my heart to do this, but I saw no other way ...
All of my hours of hard work were reduced to this ...
IMO, the idea of an EVH Camo was just too good to give up on, so here we have my second attempt ...
I really hated to have to do this one all over, but I'm extremely picky when it comes to stuff like this.
As it turned out, I kinda like the new camo pattern a little better.
I tried to mimmick the pattern on my first attempt in some areas that I liked, but doing it over gave me the opportunity to improve on the areas that I thought needed improvement.
Here is the old version (left) and the new version (right) side by side ...
Anyway ... it took awhile, but things are finally back on track.
Here's a closer look ...
There are a few tricks you can do to try to get them out, or at least make them less obvious. Fellow forum member MM2002 was a great help in giving me some tips, but unfortunately the only thing that seemed to work was to sand them out. Well ... because the paintjob is done in layers, it was impossible to sand it all out without sanding through the paint.
It broke my heart to do this, but I saw no other way ...
All of my hours of hard work were reduced to this ...
IMO, the idea of an EVH Camo was just too good to give up on, so here we have my second attempt ...
I really hated to have to do this one all over, but I'm extremely picky when it comes to stuff like this.
As it turned out, I kinda like the new camo pattern a little better.
I tried to mimmick the pattern on my first attempt in some areas that I liked, but doing it over gave me the opportunity to improve on the areas that I thought needed improvement.
Here is the old version (left) and the new version (right) side by side ...
Anyway ... it took awhile, but things are finally back on track.
Killer job, and worth it do do it as perfectly as possible.
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