Custom Guitar Finishing

The Vayu prototype is coming to a close.  I've finish sanded, stained, and sprayed the guitar.  I prefer to use a waterbased lacquer for finishing.  It has all of the hardness of solvent based lacquer but it's non-toxic and environmentally friendly.   

Once all of the coats are finished the results look wonderful.

The lacquer has now dried and I'm in the polishing stage.  I use 3 different grits of polish to achieve a mirror shine.  After that I'll do an install of the hardware and wiring and perform a fret level and recrown.  Once that's finished I'll do a full setup on the guitar.  My main focus on guitar building is to create the best playing guitar possible so I take lots of pride in my setup procedure.  I'm still waiting on my pickups to arrive, once they're in I'll be ready to complete this build.