So. As for what needs to be done wood-wise.
As far as I can tell, the cabinet is entirely plywood. Unlike my other Williams cabs, that includes the front panel. It has pretty severe planking, and the sideart appears to have been removed, rather than painted over.
The bottom left side is significantly worse than the bottom right side. My preliminary questions are these:
- Will bondo be sufficient for the missing wood on the left side? It appears to be only the top layer of the plywood that is missing. Is there something else I need to do to secure it long term?
- Can I sand down the planked paint and repaint the whole cabinet?
- Should I just sand the cabinet directly, or should I try to remove the black paint first by other means?
- When repainting it, should I primer it and then paint? Or just use something like Satin black by rust-o-leum which I've used with success on my other Williams front panels before.
- Speaking of the above, does anyone know what kind of paint was applied to Inferno to begin with by Williams? I know the stenciled cabs were oil based paints that were spray stenciled, but what about Inferno, given that it was just flat black and used a sticker?
My basic plan was to:
- Use a belt sander to remove most of the black paint
- Bondo bad areas and all pits and nail holes
- Use a rotary sander with finer grit to smooth it out
- Primer it
- Sand again with fine grit on rotary
- Paint (???) Not sure on paint technique to use
Hoping I can go out to the hardware store tomorrow and get whatever I need to get started.