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?
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