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Title: Anyone ever paint a guitar?
Post by: bartre on July 29, 2009, 03:49:34 am
well, i've got an old telecaster style guitar that i want to give a good paint job or even reshape the body a little bit.
thing is, i'm drawing a blank on the paint, maybe something bright?
does anyone have an idea or two for me?
Title: Re: Anyone ever paint a guitar?
Post by: protokatie on July 29, 2009, 04:26:19 am
Megadeth Rust in peace theme? Personally, I prefer cooler colors, so if you could do good artwork for it, I would go with Metallica Ride the Lightning cover art theme, it isn't bright like the aformentioned theme, but would look good. Or were you asking about what kind of paint to use? For that I have no idea...  :dunno
Title: Re: Anyone ever paint a guitar?
Post by: Ginsu Victim on July 29, 2009, 09:56:44 am
Have you ever actually painted a guitar? You'd better know what you're doing because it's going to look like total crap if you don't do it EXACTLY right.
Title: Re: Anyone ever paint a guitar?
Post by: Paladin on July 29, 2009, 10:19:30 am
A guy I used to work with painted his own, and recommended this website:
http://www.paintyourownguitar.com/

For what it's worth, he said it turned out great.  I never saw it though.
Title: Re: Anyone ever paint a guitar?
Post by: bartre on July 29, 2009, 11:57:37 am
well, i do a lot of painting with spray cans and airbrushes, but I'm not a genius with them.
I think i can do some neat stuff with patterns and the like, but there's no real way i could do rust in peace on this thing.
perhaps a black and yellow swirl?