Painting?

[CFH]

hey just need some advice never painted a guitar , i want to paint my guitar, but i dont know what kind of paint to use. any suggestions

[DELETE79]

DONT USE SPRAY PAINT... TRUST ME I DID IT ONCE... IF ONLY FOR A SECOND YOU DONT PUSH ENOUGH ON THE CAN IT SPIT PAINT SPOT ITS REALLY HARD TO PAINT A GUITAR WITH THIS... OR MAYBE IT WAS JUST A CHEAP CAN... I GOT PISSED AND I BROUGHT IT TO A PAINT SHOP THEY MAKE ME CHOOSE MY COLOR (RED ACURA JUST LIKE AN INTEGRA) IT COST ME 150$ BUT ITS REALLY WORTH IT. IT SHINE LIKE A CAR AND IT WILL LAST FOR A LONG TIME.
SPRAY PAINT USE TO GET OFF IF YOU DIDNT PUT A PRIMER BEFORE AND A CLEAR AFTER.

[MeTalManiac555]

Hey man I have a friend from california that does pro freestyle motocross and he has his own buisness now that custom sprays hemlmets, paintball guns, guitars ect. go to www.oc-designs.com and then email him and ask him. I would give you his s/n but I dont think he wants me giving it out. Good Luck, ( trust me this dude will know he does some really good paint jobs)

[killingismybiz]

If you're just screwing around, Id suggest acrylics.Probably easy to wash/rub off. But if you're going to get more into it then use oil paints. May I suggest get an airbrush. Those are the best, you get no ugly 'paint brush strokes' and you can do so much more - atleast make it look better, and take one or two lessons so you don't get frustrated/confused when using an airbrush. Good luck.

[shredaholic]

DONT USE SPRAY PAINT... TRUST ME I DID IT ONCE... IF ONLY FOR A SECOND YOU DONT PUSH ENOUGH ON THE CAN IT SPIT PAINT SPOT ITS REALLY HARD TO PAINT A GUITAR WITH THIS... OR MAYBE IT WAS JUST A CHEAP CAN... I GOT PISSED AND I BROUGHT IT TO A PAINT SHOP THEY MAKE ME CHOOSE MY COLOR (RED ACURA JUST LIKE AN INTEGRA) IT COST ME 150$ BUT ITS REALLY WORTH IT. IT SHINE LIKE A CAR AND IT WILL LAST FOR A LONG TIME.
SPRAY PAINT USE TO GET OFF IF YOU DIDNT PUT A PRIMER BEFORE AND A CLEAR AFTER.

you got spits of paint because you had your finger too far forward over the spray can trigger :rolleyes:

I've painted loads of guitars / pedals with spray cans before and they turn out great, I've even done a tutorial on my site for it:

http://www.shredaholic.com/painting.html


hope that is of some use :)

[Corpsevomit98]

CFH is long gone buddy. And noone really cares....

[davie_gravy]

CFH is long gone buddy. And noone really cares....


Fuck...this thread is from 2001!!!! WTF? Dudes prob dead by now :P

Maybe mods should close threads after their "X (days, months, YEARS!!) old" ? A forum I used to help mod had a php script that would automatically do em. Just tryin to help out...

[BLS]

no, because bumping old threads can be a great thing..

but then idiots come and wreck it.

[philkilla]

I painted my first guitar (an ibanez rg-350 Dx I believe....its been a while) Anyway, it came out looking pretty good. The pain I used was grill paint actually. I was looking for something black, but all they had was flat black and stuff....and this grill paint added somewhat of a gritty texture to the guitar, yet smooth at the same time.

All I did was sanded the original paint off, went over it with some steel wool, hung it up and sprayed it. I put about 6-8 coats on it and let it sit for a while....tunred out looking pretty cool...wish I had a pic, but that guitar is back home.

[ManOwaR]

ok, this is not excaxly about painting my guitar, more of putting stickers on maybe?

picture number 1, this is what my guitar looks like,
picture number 2, this is what I think would be cool if my guitar looked like

do you think I could put some white stickers on it and it will look like that? If I cut the stickers so they'de be like that of course.
Is there any other way to make these stripes besides stickers?
I know I could maybe spray it one but that would be so much trouble, if I'd spray it on I'd have to repaint the whole guitar right?

thanks :)

[crispykid]

fuck painting it myself ill go to colision repair at my school and have them paint it for me, only have to buy the paint and thats it!

[YJM04]

[QUOTE=DELETE79]DONT USE SPRAY PAINT... TRUST ME I DID IT ONCE...QUOTE]
hahaha spray paint :rofl: :rofl: that made my day