Whah! Originaly, this post was going to start off with "I think it's a neck", because I was anticipating the headstock would be complete.Yeh, a guy called Murphey and his thice damed laws had something to say about it...
Ok, so the story. As some of you may recall from previous posts I had sprayed the headstock, but it came out almost silver. The plan was to spray some black candy over the top to darken it, then do the logo and lettering in silver. Plans change. Instead I thought the lighter colour on the face of the headstock might look alright... I'm not making a replica, so it dosen't have to be black. I added some black base coat to the now almost silver pearl to bring it back to black pearl, and used that to do the logo and lettering. The contrast looked good and the prismatic pearl gave it a little pop.......BUT! Yeh, there is always a friggin BUT. In order to help with lining things up I had the holes for the tuners cut out as well. I wasn't happy with this.since I had changed to clear plastic transfer film from paper, I could see what was happening, and had things aliened a little further forward. The upshot was aside from killer looking graphics I also has little crescents towards the front of the headstock because I had forgotten to tape over the holes. Bugger!
I had made the black pear black pearl again and there wasn't enough to do the headstock, so I had to come up with a new plan. I discoverd I had some metallic charcoal-viola basecoat. Ok so new plan, sand the front of the headstock back to the underlying clear, base coat in charcoal, and use the black pearl for the lettering. Plans change.....
And the BUT! The lettering was all nice and crisp...Till I clear coated it. Red candy is notorious for bleed. Added to this is the fact that the clear and the candy is water based further increased the potential for issues. I say potential, because I used the same candy and clear on Dora for the katatna handles and there was no bleed. The problem stems from putting too much clear on too soon between each coat, and not spraying a clear barrier coat, a product available specifically to prevent candy bleed. <sigh> Back to sanding the clear and base and try again later....