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Icannon · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 4:50 pm

well, i'll be painting mine in about a week. it's a project for my school art class. i have the guitar (electric) body sanded down to a paintable surface but i'm not sure which paints would be best to use. the art itself will be fairly intricate and i plan on using acrylics for the color and an ink pen for out-lines. in the end i'll coat the guitar with a nice glossy finish. if anybody has any words of wisdom they'd like to give me before i start, please do give them.

SporQ · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 5:32 pm

the best thing to use would be high quality spray paint(i suggest krylon). using masks and such. i painted my electric bass guitar with brushes and the sanding/repainting is too much of a pain to get smooth. avoid brushwork on all but the most detailed spots. then you'll want to add at least two coats of clear spray to seal it and protect your colors. hope it helps.

SporQ

Waldo · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 6:42 pm

I have friends that have repainted theirs and if I remember correctly, they used lacquer paints. They ran their wide, soft and gradated coats through an airbush (and used masks) and then did their intricate work with brushes. Then it involved many clear coats and much light sanding and reapplication of those coats to get a rich deep luster (they're serious about their guitars). If you don't have an airbrush available, as Sporq says, go the spray can route and the more clear coats, the better. It adds a lot of depth to the look of your guitar and extends the life of your finish/artwork.

Me? I just did what I did to my car and grabbed a can of Glidden and went to town...

Check "lacquer", "guitars", "whatever" on the internet and I'm sure you'll get some info.

Hope that helps and good luck!

[This message has been edited by Waldo (edited January 02, 2001).]

ShinShot · Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2001 7:24 pm

I'm not sure how a tablet will work on a sanded surface because the last time I painted a guitar, it was with a mouse...

If you have the time and if you're looking for something more permanent, the spray method would be your best bet.

Good luck!

-SS

Maruman · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 1:34 am

yeah seal the wood with something first. the undercoat it with acrilyc spraypaint. ermm yeah what everyone else said ... i've done it before. just take your time with the sanding.

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DaveT · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 3:44 am

My friend painted the bands logo onto his bass ot long ago, it was mainly black and white so he just used spray paint and a permanent marker. The logo was fine until some arse bandit scratched it. Remember never let the drummer have a go at the bass, and dont let him play with a 10p coin. Its a recipe for disaster!

Icannon · Posted: Wed Jan 03, 2001 10:12 am

thanks everybody for the good info. unfortunately this all has to be done in an in-class environment. if i had an airbrush it would be my first choice. i'm considering going the spray paint direction, but i definitely can't do that for the whole thing. much of it will be straight brush work.
i'll post the result if i think it's worthy of the scrutinizm