Neck lacquer chipped. Some advise please!

[Biaeothanata-Bassist]

Hey guys

I just managed to Chip a tiny bit of the lacquer on my Fender P bass neck. It's a maple boarded P with an Amber tint nitrocellulose finish. I was removing the top nut as I'm replacing it with a Graphtech one and this happened. I'm not massively fussed about it but I decided to order some amber tint lacquer in a bottle (cost a fiver, not a huge loss) but here's my question.

I am planning on (with a very fine brush) drop touching the chip up on it. Do you think this will work properly?
I was going to repair the damaged area (fret side of the nut) then install the new nut, glue it in place and then finely run a layer of the lacquer either side of the nut to seal in any other cracks it caused.
Also got one or two dinks on the end of the head stock which I'll drop fill too. Has anyone done this before and will it work properly?

I've attached a picture of the damaged nut area.

Cheers!

Edited July 30, 2013 by Biaeothanata-Bassist

[Ou7shined]

I can't really see it on my phone but it sounds like you have a plan. Check that your tinted lacquer matches the existing finish first (say on the heel where no one can see) as you don't want to go putting orange dots all over it and aim to do it in a few steps not all in one go as nitro likes to level itself out over a few minutes.

[Biaeothanata-Bassist]

I know it's not the best idea but I looked on the colour chart it had up and it said "Fender Guitar" under the one I chose as well as looking exactly the same shade as the actual neck.
Hopefully it'll all arrive by Friday so I'll upload pictures once I've installed the nut, fixed the damage and sorted the end of the headstock out too.
Cheers for your help mate!