Chuck’s ST-1M “Surfcaster” build

[Chuck]

Yep, Freeway switch on the lower horn.

As far as the painting goes, I might as well reveal the plan. As I've said this is surf inspired. I'm a kneeboarder (yep, there are some of us left!) and I've always ridden Friar Tuck boards. The board in the middle of the picture below is my current favourite, so I'm modelling the paint scheme on it.



Flip the board on it's side and we're getting close. I'll start by painting the body and pickguard white. I'll then attach the pickguard and mask everything off to do the blue wedge (I'm not going to do the wiggly "sperm" tail - just a straighter kind of thing). That's why I need to be able to paint the pickguard. Then I'll mask again to get that black keyline. Hopefully it will work out and be quite striking, but we'll see!

I've also always loved what the guys at SoCal hotrods do with their artwork - you can see the similarities with the Friar Tuck paintjob in this pic.

[wokkaboy]

cool plan Chuck, sure you can pull off a cool paint job like that. Love those hot rods too !
Imagine owning one and going for a Sunday cruise on a nice sunny arvo !

[Chuck]

Oh, and I took a little more of the headstock to give it a better wave feel!

[wokkaboy]

nice stock shape Chuck that will fit in with the surf theme nicely !

[FrankenWashie]

Oh, and I took a little more of the headstock to give it a better wave feel!

Yep, yep that's looking fairly surf right there. Love it!

[andrewdosborne]

I like the look of where this is heading, good stuff

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[WeirdBits]

mmm... surfy.

[Nickosaurus]

Absolutely killer headstock mate

[Andy40]

I think you could do some damage to someone with that headstock...or catch a fish. Looks cool Chuck

[Chuck]

Slowly making progress. Body and pickguard are primed and another coat will have the white base coat done. But now question for the painting experts as anything more than a single colour finish is new to me!

The illustration shows what I’m doing – the body is painted white, and I’ll have the centre section painted blue. I figure I’ll use 3mm pinstripers masking tape to create the curve, then wider tape and newspaper to create the mask. The thing is I want a black keyline between the two colours.



I figure there are two options: 1) leave the masking in place, then create a second masking line 1mm wide on the blue part, cover all the blue with paper, then spray the line with black. Option 2 would be to finish the blue section, then take all the masking off, then mask .5mm on either side of the paint “join” line and then spray that bit black. I think the advantage of this is that I won’t be building up two layers of colour next to the white, but on the downside it will be a bit fiddly.

What say the brains trust? Or any other ways of doing it?