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I just got an HVLP setup and will mostly be spraying shellac until I move to my new place with a proper spray booth. (for now I will be spraying outside). I was thinking about setting up some kind of drying box indoors and need it to be small and demountable. I only work on one instrument at a time right now.

I was thinking of just setting up a two-layer tent of dense cheesecloth to put the guitar under between coats. Has anyone tried something similar? What does your drying box (or tent) look like?

By the way, thanks to the many people who contributed to past spray equipment threads, it made it a lot easier to educate myself and pick a good system that would work for my needs.

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This is what I did and it worked well. I just made up a big cardboard box with some painters drop cloth\plastic for the front. I used a dowel to weight it down at the bottom of the plastic. I also put the plastic up around the garage to keep overspray off of stuff. It looked like a kill room scene from Dexter. I was spraying EM6000.

I believe Killin room would be more apt!

Alex

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Robert asked about a drying box, not a spray booth. Also, sealing the box with plastic will only delay drying/curing.

Shellac dries to the touch very quickly so it does not really need a drying box when you bring it indoors.

I guess it depends on what your objectives are. Never tried it but, a tent with cheese cloth should work fine for a low dust drying area. A warm, dry area may be another story.

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Mine was really just to keep dust and bugs off while it set. It really didn’t take long and the plastic drop cloth was just a shield not a sealed type of setup. I was using a water based finish so at the end of the day, I just brought the guitar back into the house and hung it in a closet.

The spray booth idea is a good one though - not entirely different than what I was thinking. Thanks for the pics. Yeah - there's minimal dust in my work space. It is where I do most of the woodworking, but I will be saw/sander free for a few days with the air filter running so that it cleans up before I start drying stuff. But a big box with two layers of dense cloth over it would be good - that'll catch any dust and let it breath a bit. I don't expect the drying to take too long.

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