Lacquer drying box for cold climates?

[loudkenny]

Hello all,

I live in the northern US, and it's wintertime here.

I have a bunch of bodies and necks here that all need to be finished, I don't want to heat my whole shop for the whole winter just to dry lacquer, and the wife says I can't 'nitro paint' in the house.

I'm thinking about making some kind of box with a heater and thermostat inside it that I can run 24/7 and put finished parts in to dry.

Have any of you made something like this, how did you do it, and how did it work?

Thank you,

ken

[demonx]

In winter I use heat lamps.

I find they're too hot to use during the entire spray session, so I turn them on for about half an hour to an hour after the last coat.

I've also found I need the heat lamps about a meter away from the guitar as otherwise they can get too hot

I find this is enough and then I can turn them off and leave the guitars hanging.

This is in a small 3m X 4m room I built in my workshop.

Trial and error to suit your own situation