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What is the best way to "color" the body?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 12:38 pm
by TEK 7289
I am building a acoustic for a friend and for some reason he wants a black guitar. What is the best route to do it? I just started building this year and on the guitars I have built so far I have finished with French Polish.
Travis
Re: What is the best way to "color" the body?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 3:37 pm
by tippie53
a few choices,
If you don't have a spray booth you may want to opt for acrylic auto paint
Re: What is the best way to "color" the body?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:03 pm
by
Does acrylic auto paint come in rattle cans?
Just spray on bare wood?
How many coats?
Is a certain finishing product necessary?
Re: What is the best way to "color" the body?
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:37 pm
by tippie53
I have used it on electric solid bodies
I use a seal coat , then a base primer , depending on what effect you are going for you want to use under color , say white and put blue on top if it , or I like putting black under red .
There are many effects you can get. Experiment and you may be surprised . Then you want to clear coat . One nice thing about the auto finish is that you can be sanding it in a few hrs and it buff and polishes nicely. It dries hard and you don't need to use as much as if you used nitro.
It wet sands much the same , use 800 -1000 - 1500 2000 then buff and polish compounds. I really like playing with the meta flakes and translucent colors. That is where the under colors have the greatest visual effect.
Re: What is the best way to "color" the body?
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:21 am
by B. Howard
You can also color shellac with pigments. I use Mixol pigments, they can be mixed with virtually any finish material. Though I have never done FP in a solid color I have done it in shaders.