ColorTone Tinted Aerosol Guitar Lacquer

I used this on a classic tweed amp to get a "vintage" look. Works great!

This is good idea, but I found the mixtures to be too strong, too much tint applied too fast. It's impossible to get a subtle gradation with the amount of color that lays down in one spray, it's almost as strong a paint. StewMac should reduce the tone by 70%. I tried the Vintage Amber, Red Mahogany, and Tobacco Brown.

I bought all four cans, to replicate the famous brock burst. Following the StewMac finishing guide, I started with two sealer coats, then the vintage amber. I put two more light coats of clear over the vintage amber, then sprayed red mahogany burst and very lightly misted some tobacco brown around the outside. Finally, I sprayed the cherry red over the red mahogany burst and got a really deep dark burgundy red. The pic shown is prior to binding scraping and clear coating. And it looks a lot better in person too, since red shows up so poorly in pics. i would recommend these to any beginner! They're pretty easy to use.

I've done two guitars working with Amber and Tobacco tinted Nitrocellulose. If you warm them up as directed, they are easy to use and look fantastic. One problem is the fumes; you'll have to use a respirator of some sort. The other thing you’ll need to understand is don’t rush your project; have your body filled, sanded and clean. Now for the negative, I tried my first tobacco burst and found the spray area too concentrated to fade the burst and it took some work to make it look acceptable. I’m sure people can do it with rattle cans but I found it difficult. Overall, a very good quality paint.

I read some reviews beforehand about this product yellowing too much (this is not my first finish job) and decided to give it a go on my LP refinish and a current customer's J-Bass. Luckily I used it on my LP first. After warming the lacquer (and yes I checked the temp) the can spit like crazy after shaking for a solid minute. After multiple spits and a light misting coat, I decided to look at my work. The once yellow finish turned as orange as a basketball. I always use Naptha as well on my stains/finish before I spray anything and with the Naptha it did not yellow. I stripped the guitar and started all over. A shame really but I'm glad I used it on my own guitar before I tried it on a customer's bass. I would not recommend this to anyone for either toning or finishing. Nor would I even attempt to use this particular product again.

I enjoy assembling and finishing kit guitars. These areosols paints are perfect for beginners to use. Practice on scrap first and you'll find when you paint your guitar it will look very close to a professional look prior to the final rub out. The spray is very even and makes it very convienent to use. Highly recommended. Don't forget to use a mask and read all your directions.

I have no spray booth or room to put one so I have to do my finish work outdoors. No way to hook up a spray gun so I use this lacquer on almost every banjo I make. With a little ingenuity I can get a decent sunburst effect on resonators and necks with Vintage Amber, Red Mahogany, and Tobacco Brown. I use Gloss Black for pegheads. Then I use about 8-12 coats of clear gloss to finish. It may not be quite as professional as a hand rubbed finish but it still turns out to be a decent job.

This is the first time I ever tryed to finish my own guitar. After watching hrs of videos I purchased a book on building your own guitar. It gave me Stewart-Mcdonald site to purchase my finish colors. I did not want to have to mix ect my colors so I bought the tinted lacquers from sterwart-Mcdonald. I love the colors and how easy it is to use the cans .

I bought the Cherry Red to do a sunburst on a LP clone. The color and transparency is fantastic. My only issue is that the spray pattern was hard to control and I eneded up with much more red than I wanted. It still looks OK and I could have sanded it off it I wnated to.

I'm very happy with the results using this spray. I had a quilted maple detail panel for an amp that I dyed black, then shot a cherry color coat using this spray. Turned out great, no problems with the nozzle. Really matched up well with the red/black snakeskin detail on the amp.