Guitar Rotisserie for painting.

I put coats of clear coat on the neck and body while I was cleaning out the garage...

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...and, of course, I found stuff to attach to my McCreedesque neck painting jig. The most important find was what looks like a nob on the back. It's actually a rare-earth magnet. This was used to magnetically open child proofing locks when my kids were little. It turns out to be powerful enough to allow me to lift the neck when I touch it to the truss rod nut, which on this neck is at the base. As i started to apply clear coat, however, I realized that if I was not careful I would not have the flipper or magnet when it came time.

So I added the metal plate to stick the magnet to, and a hook to hang the flipper. I am sincerely hoping that the jig will not be better than my finish.

I originally made my rotisserie to paint bodies. But I have been refinishing a set-neck bass. Since I don't have spray equipment and apply clear coat with a brush, I wanted to use the rotisserie for that as I have for the bodies. Finally settled on the approach here:

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It takes up considerably more room in my garage, but it seems to work reasonably well. As with my other jigs it is made of mostly found objects and is ugly as sin. Not sure if these are as common in Australia or elsewhere in the world, but I used two electrical junction boxes. The one that is attached to the wooden rod is made to attach to a wooden door frame.

I am not sure I'd want to do this with a guitar that is much heavier than this. Particularly the four mounting screws inside the pickup cavity are holding about 2.7Kg...and I am pretty sure center block is paulownia, so it won't take a lot of abuse...but so far so good ;-)

My version of a spraying rotisserie and drying stand. Both built around a saw-horse from the BGS.

This is so much more elegant than any of my jigs. I really like how compact it is, and how much stuff you can do with it. Next attachment will be a StewMac style workstation ;-)

Thats a great idea, turn it and lock it in position. I will be looking at something like this on my next Bass body spray. Would be just as handy for sanding as well.

hmm, I needed to work out how I was going to spray my basses, since they are neck throughs. with a few mods... yeh.. I think I'll steal this idea :P

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Originally Posted by fender3x

This is so much more elegant than any of my jigs. I really like how compact it is (reminds me of bizzo casino), and how much stuff you can do with it. Next attachment will be a StewMac style workstation ;-)

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Perhaps this fixture will be suitable for more than just painting a guitar. There are many things you can fix here.

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Originally Posted by Rabbit

hmm, I needed to work out how I was going to spray my basses, since they are neck throughs. with a few mods... yeh.. I think I'll steal this idea :P

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One would probably even want to sell such an idea. That's a very good idea.

My rotisserie for neck through worked partly because PB ES style basses are relatively light. Also, there are a couple of cinder blocks holding down one side of the jig to counterbalance the bass. Not sure that's visible in the pics.

The other thing that I found is that I needed a way to lock the rotisserie in place. Not much of an issue when dealing with a body attached to a pole where the neck goes. Much more important when a whole guitar/bass is attached via a pickup cavity. Particularly if you are like me and want to be able spin it to catch drips ;-)