tele test bed

[ponch]

Haha nah mate not my foot. Or is it.....
With the marble I'm just spraying a small section about the width of my hand silver, pretty heavy coat, then I have a bout 6 shopping bags all inside another into a ball, then dab it while the paints wet. You can also use glad wrap. YouTube spray chief candy paint, there is a demo of the candy orange I'm using as well and how he marbles with glad wrap.

[ponch]

I'm thinking the same thing but the boss reckons candy it. Hmmm....

[lawry]

Wow. That's pretty cool. Never seen a finish like that on a guitar before. Kinda like it!

[ponch]

Thanks mate. The inspiration was this thing. I had this Tele already so using to get the hang of hvlp guns, marbling and spraying candy so any mistakes I make now I can eliminate when I do the ib7. Same deal with the spalted lp with the chip. My practice run for staining. Got a custom ib7 with a quilted top on the way.

[stan]

very nice effort Andrew, looks a million bucks

[ponch]

Thanks mate.
So candy is sprayed, let it dry and removed the tape. I can't believe I did this! Probably not perfect by any stretch, but I'm a chef by trade and the closest I've come to painting and wood work is food colours and wooden spoons! Going back to work tomorrow so this guy will hang out for a few weeks til the lp is ready to clear and I'll do both these guys at the same time.

[ponch]

There were a few spots where the candy crept under the tape but the white has 3 coats so I'll just be super careful with some 0000 steel wool and clean it up next week.

[ponch]

Last one for the day.

[Nickosaurus]

Damn! Those sides are beautiful man.

Can you explain what candying is?

[ponch]

thanks man! i'll try, but bear in mind i'm no expert. candy is a very translucent clear coat with colour that when sprayed over a large flake, highly metallic base coat creates depth of colour, a wet look. remember those candy apples? the paint tries to replicate the same effect. when doing a candy it is important to lay a gaudy metallic down first, think those sparkle finishes that gretsch uses. with the candy over it, cleared and polished it will look like a deep colour, but under light you will be able to see the shimmer from the metallic just enough so it creates an interesting effect. here is the youtube link to the video of the guys from where i bought the paint from demoing it. they also explain it pretty well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz7OPfQ-Lfo

the paint is a spray chief product, acrylic based and comes ready mixed in a 250ml bottle which was more than enough to do the guitar, it was about $28 i think from memory. pretty sure the place is called vg auto paints, and they deliver.

that video i posted explains the marbling technique also. he uses glad wrap which makes the texture of the effect alot finer with alot of strightish lines where the one i opted for was a bunch of coles shopping bags all bunched inside another and tied off so it was a larger round surface.

next time i do it i will thin the metallic out a bit more than the recommended 1:1 as you only get about 5-10 seconds to do the marbling before it starts to flash of and get tacky.

also, with the candy as its such a light colour designed to be built up over a series of passes, i am inexperienced with the spray guns so when i was doing a spray pattern test i could only see a little colour so cranked the mixture knob up. the guitar turned out awesome, but knowing this now i can dial it back a bit, conserve the paint a bit more and have a bit more control over the amount of paint going onto the job knowing that with a few more passes i can still get the same result, less waste, and more control.

hope this helps