Fun with painting. I got the primer sanded smooth and ready to spray on Sunday, only to discover that the masking tape that I used in the neck pocket had flopped over onto the body, so I had a triangle of bare wood and had to prime again. I couldn't quite get that spot even with the rest of the primer coat, but it's small and under the neck pocket, so hopefully not very noticeable when the guitar is put together.
The paint that I ordered appeared to be a blue-green color shift, but when it arrived, I discovered that it was blue-purple. You can see flashes of green, gold or red in it in the right light. I was very disappointed when I started spraying. You could hardly see anything over the black base coat (required for the paint to work), but I kept spraying on coats. In the end, I'm not unhappy with it, though not completely satisfied either. It's a tough paint to spray, a little too close or a little too far away, and it comes out all wrong. There are still a few rough spots, which are particularly apparent in the flash photo below that I'm going to try to touch up before I spray the clear coat. I still wonder if maybe I shouldn't have sprayed a black with a little gloss over the primer before I put the paint on, but I'm curious what the clear coat will bring out. (Please ignore the messiness of my work bench. I've got several projects going at the same time, and they're all crammed in a small space.)
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