AquaDag E, water-based Conductive Colloidal Carbon Graphite Resistance Coating, 1/2 oz. brush-cap bottle

Worked well for electroforming, had good conductivity and was resistant to the acid bath once fully dried.

Worked good for painting clay and electroplating.

I may have used this wrong but i dont know! I bought it for electroplating and others say it works but i painted two layers of this on a varnished clay piece and let it dry. the next day i tried to electroplate and it was not conductive!!! I do not know if I did something wrong, but to my knowledge i did everything i was supposed to do. The wire my peice was on was getting plated but not my peice!!! Help if you can please!

Probably okay for certain uses, but it did not provide a solution for me to plate an object in a bronze plating solution. Additionally, I thought the "reformulated for brush use" might have meant it would hold up to brush plating. It did not, and was easily dissolved and wiped off in the brush plating process. I will attempt to use a silver conductive coating on the next project.

I bought this for sheilding the bridge cavity on my Strat copy. The guitar had come with the style of tremolo bridge that is pretty much the standard for Stratocasters. In order to fit a Kahler 7300 i had to route out a cavity in the body and then apply sheilding paint to this bare wood,as was done for the old bridge.I bought the Aqua-Dag because 1) I didn't need the whole 'Stratocaster Sheilding Kit' , 2) price , and 3) it seemed to match the black sheilding paint that was originally on the guitar. Not only was there plenty in the bottle for my needs, after 3 THICK coats, i only used about 1/8th of the bottle.I can't say whether this product will work IN PLACE OF the Sratocaster Sheilding Kit paint, that is, for the whole pickup/ input jack/ bridge cavities area, since i only used it for this one area, melding it to the older sheilding paint along the edges exposed by my routing. I CAN say that that it seems to have worked for sheilding this bridge area.As a matter of fact, there is LESS 'hum' to this guitar now, with no reduction in output/pickup quality. HOWEVER, i don't know whether the paint, or the bridge, either, have ANYTHING to do with this.One note, if you're using this product for the same purpose i did: make sure the conductive paint is not going to touch the metal surfaces of the bridge assembly, as this will cause a short. I beveled/filed the edges after painting, so as to keep the paint at least 2mm below the bridge.After the paint dries at least a day, it's a good idea to clear-coat it, as, for one thing, if you touch it, graphite will rub off/onto whatever it touches. Any clear-coat for painted surfaces will do. Even cheap nail polish top-coat!