Chuck’s ST-1M “Surfcaster” build

[wokkaboy]

Chuck, not sure how the posca pen will go ontop of clear coats, might be worth a trial on scrap wood.
At least with your planned method the surface should be flatter after a few clear coats.
If the pen works on the clear coats I vote yes go that method.

[cade711]

Great contrast between the selected shade of blue with white Chuck.

[Chuck]

Great contrast between the selected shade of blue with white Chuck.

Thanks cade, it's probably more a credit to the colour chart for MTN 94 paints - it's pretty accurate, maybe a fraction darker. You can pick your colours from there with a good degree of confidence.

[Chuck]

A few days and a bit of progress! With colour coats complete, on a whim I decided on a different approach. First a did a couple of light layers of clear, then did the pinstriping with automotive tape (after a long discussion with the bloke in the shop who assured me he'd applied acrylic over the tape and it had worked fine!). It was very easy to do I have to say. I then did another clear. At this point the tape decided to lift a little and I thought I was screwed, but I've managed to keep it in place and do a couple more coats. I think I've got it firmly fixed now. I'm happy with the pickguard and front, the back isn't quite as tight but close enough! I'm going to do a heap of clears to get try and get a glassed look so I'll have to be patient!!

[phrozin]

now thats different the tape will be fine under clear just dont spray the 1st 2 coats over it to wet after a couple of dry costs you'll be fine, if it was me i would have put the tape over a few coats of clear as will stick better

[Chuck]

now thats different the tape will be fine under clear just dont spray the 1st 2 coats over it to wet after a couple of dry costs you'll be fine, if it was me i would have put the tape over a few coats of clear as will stick better

It did do a couple of clears first but probably a bit too light to make for a really good surface to stick it to. Your suggestion would have been spot on! I've now done three over the top and it's settling down.

[Chuck]

With all the heat/rain/humidity, painting on the body is going very, very slowly! So at the very least I figured some logos were in order. Funny thing is that when I originally started this project I'd called this one the Surfcaster, but at some point I've created logos with word Surfmaster. Oh, well, let's just go with Surfmaster from now on! I also did a very small logo from the surfboard I'm basing this on and put that on the back of the headstock as a nod to its origins.



A few more coats of TO, then some dingowax on the fretboard and at least the neck will be ready to roll...

[gavinturner]

Looking awesome Chuck! I really love the headstock shape man. How did you create your headstock decal? Is it just a water-slide? Could you tell me the font, color, printer type etc. to replicate? I would really like to do something similar.

thanks dude.

cheers,
Gav.

[Chuck]

Looking awesome Chuck! I really love the headstock shape man. How did you create your headstock decal? Is it just a water-slide? Could you tell me the font, color, printer type etc. to replicate? I would really like to do something similar.

The font is Brushscript and I did it all in Photoshop (created an outline for the font, then played around with "brown" tones to fill to try and get as gold as possible.). All the various logos etc where then dragged into Word where I played around with getting the sizes right. I then picked up some laserjet waterslide paper off ebay and printed it on the laserjet printer at work. It's much simpler than I thought it would be.

Unfortunately I don't have access to Photoshop right now as I was using the work copy, and I've just left that company! As soon as I find a Photoshop source I'll get details on the brown/gold colour - or I could send you the Photoshop file and you could play around with my template?

[gavinturner]

The font is Brushscript and I did it all in Photoshop (created an outline for the font, then played around with "brown" tones to fill to try and get as gold as possible.). All the various logos etc where then dragged into Word where I played around with getting the sizes right. I then picked up some laserjet waterslide paper off ebay and printed it on the laserjet printer at work. It's much simpler than I thought it would be.

Unfortunately I don't have access to Photoshop right now as I was using the work copy, and I've just left that company! As soon as I find a Photoshop source I'll get details on the brown/gold colour - or I could send you the Photoshop file and you could play around with my template?

Thanks man that's great. Unfortunately I dont have Photoshop only Gimp (the freeware app ). Given what you've just told me I may be able to play around now and see what I can come up with!

cheers,
Gav.