Members Larry the Dog Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Repainted your own guitar? Post it! I was looking at paying some bucks to get a project re-finished, but I think I'm gonna try it on the cheap instead and do it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fu2jobu Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 I would suggest working on beaters for your first try. There are plenty of cheap guitars out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MKSkud Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Did this with Krylon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 LOTS of work: Completely stripped down to bare wood. Used Rereanch nitro coral, 3 coats 3 days between each coat, and I did top and bottom separately so it took ~18 days to paint the color, then 2 coats of Reranch tinted nitro clear, so 12 more days. Let it hang in my garage for 30 days before I started wet sanding. i went from 800 to 1000 to 1500 to 2000 grit, being very careful not to sand through anywhere. Probably have 4 or 6 actual hours in it over 2 months. This batch was more orange than it was supposed to be, but I'm going to keep it. I'll refinish another body in coral sometime this year. Almost no work: This one took a grand total of about 1 hour of actual work over three days. Scuffed up the existing paint, hit it with two coats of Krylon Celery bought at Ace Hardware. Hit it with 1000 grit paper then 2000 grit paper though I screwed up the back of the guitar, this was only a 'testing' job anyway. Looks 95% as nice as the Reranch strat above. ZERO work on my part: This is my punk special. It's a cheap POS with a serious attitude! The previous owner painted it and 'branded' the headstock and body. It's ugly as sin, but it conveys what it's supposed to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members flummox Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 One day I'll get around to ironing my backdrops. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Belva Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Does rattle can color and paint gun clear count? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members notjonahbutnoah Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Almost no work: This one took a grand total of about 1 hour of actual work over three days. Scuffed up the existing paint, hit it with two coats of Krylon Celery bought at Ace Hardware. Hit it with 1000 grit paper then 2000 grit paper though I screwed up the back of the guitar, this was only a 'testing' job anyway. Looks 95% as nice as the Reranch strat above. This one looks really good in the pic. 95% as good as the painstaking, everlasting re-ranch job you say? Nice. This one used to be black. I sanded the shiny off the black, then several coats of Krylon over a few days. Then a few more coats of Krylon clear over a few more days. I didn't sand at all except at the very beginning. Just had it hanging from a coat hanger. I had no idea what I was doing. Looks neat, satin-ish. It developed these little cracks in the clear coat, makes it look 50 years old. Unintentional, but cool. This was my first real electric guitar, I loves it. You can really see the cracks I'm talking about on the upper bout in this next one: Kinda cool huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members axegrinder Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Both of these are Deft clear on Rustoleum metallic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRPool Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Lots of elbow grease followed by paint and lacquer from Walmart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members A_Gitarman Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 I did this one about a year ago: Here are a couple of in-progress shots: *the appearance of a textured surface is from a coat of 'glitter' paint that I sprayed over the orange. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoneNut Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Rattle can and elbow grease Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Elias Graves Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 EG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mabjab1 Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here's mine that I finished this summer. Lot's of fun and would do it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members gergbee Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 First one, pulled the frets and made it a fretless too. I learned a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members yz250f49 Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Before: After: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mike Fiasco Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here's mine that I finished this summer. Lot's of fun and would do it again. I know this isn't a contest but DANG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Weiner_Bomb Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 I used krylon and minwax 'polycrylic' (...If I did this over again, I wouldnt use the polycrylic..) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ugameus Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here's mine that I finished this summer. Lot's of fun and would do it again. HOLY HELL!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Oaksong Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Here's mine that I finished this summer. Lot's of fun and would do it again. HOT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cobalt Blue Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Man, you guys do some nice work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SDshirtman Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 Deft Lacquer from a can. By the way the Les Paul mabjab1 did above this post is beautiful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members axegrinder Posted January 3, 2011 Members Share Posted January 3, 2011 ^^^ Is that a scratch build? Out of curiousity, what did you guys use for transparent colors? I haven't looked for a while, but I never ran across any transcolors in rattle cans short of going the reranch route. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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