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[Groovyman32]

Wowsers - that is an awesome result! Great work. Love it

John Mayer is on the phone - he wants his guitar back.


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[McCreed]

Very cool! Nice effect.

Not sure whether to get another can and do a few more coats.

If you're happy with the coverage you have now, and there's no runs, spatter or anything that needs fixing, I'd just start your clear coat.

[dozymuppet]

That's very on the rad side, Eponymous.

When I zoomed in and saw a couple of the areas that you're probably thinking need more work, I was thinking "woah, that looks like some sort of retro synthwave relic". Do with that what you will...

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[Eponymous]

Thanks for the feedback, everyone. It was looking pretty good, when it dried but I had decided to do another can’s worth of paint over the top to try and get a deeper, richer colour. Delay in updates is because the paint takes a while to get here. It duly arrived during the week and this morning was putting much heavier (medium to wet coats, as the instructions say) on.

The end result looks like this.

[Eponymous]

Very cool! Nice effect.



If you're happy with the coverage you have now, and there's no runs, spatter or anything that needs fixing, I'd just start your clear coat.

I did respray and had a minor hiccup near the input jack hole. I think it will be easily fixable. As my son reminded me last weekend...don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Clear coat in a week or so when this has had a chance to completely outgas and cure/dry.

[Eponymous]

Wowsers - that is an awesome result! Great work. Love it

John Mayer is on the phone - he wants his guitar back.


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It’ll cost him!!!!

Thanks, groovyman!

[Eponymous]

And because every guitar deserves some bling.....

[Eponymous]

While I haven’t put anything up for a while, I have been doing things. I had been waiting for some things to come in..namely, my topcoat and some retarder and the spray gun kit I ordered. The spray kit is apparently in Australia but tracking doesn’t seem to be working properly, so I’m hoping it will turn up next week.

In the meantime, I have worked on the neck, fitting my bling, which is epoxied at the front and screwed in from the back. It won’t be going anywhere. I’ve also installed the tuners. I haven’t set the heights properly yet (they are variable height) to get my break angle over the neck properly done.

The neck is looking like this.



And the tuners specifically like this



In the meantime, I had another can of the colourshift paint, so I decided to give it another coat to do a richer finish.

It now looks like this.



Except for the tiny detail that, it dropped onto the floor (and some pedals stored on the floor, conveniently directly under the drying guitar).

The result was this.



Soo.....damn.

I have more of the base coat and will order another can of the colourshift. That will take 10 days or so to get here, so...when the body is properly dry, I will sand back the affected areas and reapply the black base coat....then spray and spray again to go back to what it should look like.

I’m pretty happy with the colour now though, so I have something to aim for.

Still upside down photos. I keep rotating and rotating them in edit mode and they still come out upside down! Wtf is going wrong.

Anyway, I guess that is the least of my problems today.

I guess it is another chance to get things right.....

[McCreed]

Bummer about the dropped guitar! Ouch!

[Rabbit]

Oh man, just when things were going well .... that's usualy the way. Until you have that clear on and cured you have to be so so careful, because base coat is fragile. Once the clear is on the colour shift effect and pearl/metallic will realy pop. Pics of bare base never do the finished effect justice. It's gunna look killer when it's done!

Look on the bright side, when House of Kolor first introduced colour shift paint (they called it kamelion kolor), it was a grand a litre!