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Guitar respray in Ireland?

  • 21-09-2006 12:58pm
    #1
    Voodu Child
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    Ive gotten an idea in my head that id like to respray one of my guitars in a custom finish, and becuase it would need to be a transparent burst on a flamed maple top, its not something any idiot could do.
    Theres a few places in the uk ive come across, but does anyone know of anyone in this country who could do it? Ive seen a couple of custom guitar makers here alright in the resources, but nothing to suggest their finishes are particularly good.


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  • #2
    Doctor J
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,848 ✭✭✭✭Doctor J


    Derrick Nelson has made quite a few guitars in his time, the 7 string he made for Louis Stewart was had quite a nice burst on it.


  • #3
    Voodu Child
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,706 ✭✭✭Voodu Child


    Right thanks for the info, i might give him a bell to see how much he has done. Id be looking for a professional job - stripping existing paint, grain filler, primer, however many coats of paint needed, and nitro laquer or equivalent. Becuase its a flame maple top, id want someone who really knows their stuff.
    I was looking at the custom guitar makers here, but none of the pitcures of their work suggests that any of them are pro-quality guitar finishers.
    A sort of green/yellow burst is what i have in my head, maybe like this
    the_sleastack.jpg
    or this.
    d07.jpg
    But id rather pay to ship it to the uk and back if i wasnt 100% about the quality of an Irish luthiers paint jobs


  • #4
    Ancient1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭Ancient1


    Damn, that is a nice finish. Good luck finding someone!

    I bought this guitar body and I started working on it.

    Now it looks like a 6 year old kid with an attention deficit disorder stuck a crayon between his toes on his left foot and went to work on the guitar.

    Sorry, deaddonkey! :D


  • #5
    deaddonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 861 ✭✭✭deaddonkey


    Ancient1 wrote:
    Damn, that is a nice finish. Good luck finding someone!

    I bought this guitar body and I started working on it.

    Now it looks like a 6 year old kid with an attention deficit disorder stuck a crayon between his toes on his left foot and went to work on the guitar.

    Sorry, deaddonkey! :D


    haha. what went wrong?


  • #6
    Ancient1
    Registered Users Posts: 2,592 ✭✭✭Ancient1


    Well, I started sanding it and it was taking me months. Mostly because I shun physical work whenever I can.

    I wanted to speed up the process by throwing some paint peeling chemicals over the body and then I used one of those scraper yokes. Ouch. I won't go into the gory details.

    The idea was to strip off that blue-ish green and repaint it into chrome red. But now I'll paint this one teal green and just buy a red one.

    Ah, it's not that bad, but it's never going to end up the way I imagined it, I just have to improvise a bit.

    Never doing this woodwork sh1t again man. :p

    And keep me in the loop if you come across more Strat parts!


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