Can't wait to see the finished product. Looks fantastic so far.
Can't wait to see the finished product. Looks fantastic so far.
So exciting. Got more sealer primer on this morning and it’s looking smooooooooth. Got a tack coat on of the solar gold. Didn’t order any additional paint. Still have loads in my test aerosol so just need to build it up slow and so it’s not patchy. I have some gamma gold too so might even darken the edges.
I don’t think you see much anyway once the flake is on there.
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gOLD!!!! Always believe in your soul!!!
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<in the vocal style of the indomitable Ms. Bassey>
GOOOOOOOLLD GUITAR, The Axe that King Midas touched!
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Hand crafting guitars, because Death Rays are expensive.
Now starting to build the flake.
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Outrageous! Great job mate. Your patience in the preparation stage is paying off. Going to be brilliant when finished.
Hope it comes with sunglasses too.
Few more coats of flake
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Just to put a few words to the images above. Yesterday morning I started with the filler /sealer combo. it took at least 4 coats to hide the grain (didnt have grain filler but the stuff i DID have was meant to do this too...) we don't bother much about the grain on our jukeboxes so its proabably ok for that. Anyway i managed to get it as flat as i could the stuck on a 3 or 4 coats of house of kolor solar gold. I WAS going to buy some for my gun but I still had 3/4 of an aerosol from my testing panels so i just used this. it looks quite patchy until you get the 4th coat on then it looks really nice and flat..
When it dried it did show a few areas of grain - but its fine. and these will be filled with flake anyway.
then it was onto the flake. I mixed dark gold flake with a tiny bit of Roth Surfer silver (as i thought this might make a little different type of sparkle.) then ive layed on at least 4 coast of this until its really thick and covered. I might do another coat or two this afternoon as ive still got some in the gun and i hate waste.... then il let it have a really good dry at least overnight or maybe even over the weekend. the flake carrier is thick stuff so im worried about it being really soft underneath.
then its kandy coats (again I have almost a full can of this so again Ill use areosol) then Ill have to remask everything for the clearcoats.
I want the 2k clear to overlap the binding and slightly over the edge of the lip of the body so Ill remask it all for this.. then its clear & Flat until the cows come home.
I'll probably not polish and buff it yet. Ill play it and see what its like in a month or 3.. want it to cure really well before all that palava...
(soundtrack for most of the spraying was freddy king!)
That’s looking AMAZING BuffaloGhost, and I lmao when I compare it to my own foray into gold glitter.
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