Any of you guys ever tried painting your guitar? I was wondering what kind of paint to use. The only thing i've ever really painted is a car and I know auto paint is probably not the thing to use. Any info would be helpful

It's probably not a good idea to do it yourself, I know somebody who tried to paint his bass black and it ended out bad (thank god for inventing stickers)
you'll probably need a good, good coating and a lot of 'blanke lak' ehm, the see thru finished that protects your paint.
you'll need a lot of layers of that stuff...

I'm actually really good at painting. But I can understand why it wouldn't turn out that great.. But i'm sure it's not that different from a car alot of sanding painting sanding. I just can't find like.. "guitar paint" anywhere. I don't know what brands there are or anything.. you know what I mean? I figured you'd know Def, oh yeah and I haven't been online the past few days since I'm in Wisconsin. I looked for you online after I posted this and didn't see ya.. I leave for 15 minutes and come back and you've already been here and gone haha.. anyways.. Thanks man

Yeah ive painte couple of my guitars... i just simply used some differrent paints for wood... they came out very nice and mean looking things...

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haha, so what's up man?

I don't know shit about special 'guitar paint' but there probably is paint for guitars, how else can the custom shops paint those cool guitars?
maybe the paintbrush paint is the right stuff, but do use a good blank layer on top to keep the whole guitar shining.

well, the sanding part, I don't know, maybe you need to do it by hand and piece by piece, really carefully, then get a good primer to make the paint hold really good.

damn it's hard for me to talk about painting stuff cuz all the words are diffrent in english, hehe, so this probably doesn't make any sense hehehe

oh, Downset was great, we did an interview with them for a mag, pretty neat (they where zipping waterpipes and shit in the tourbus!) the show was good, but they where wasted, still, they played a lot of the old stuff... great shit.

which guitar are you gonna paint? not the gothic, or else I'll personally shoot you for that

haha.. That sounds like Downset.. heh.. And the vader/immolation show was incredible.. I posted about it in tours/shows forum.. And no haha i'm not going to paint the gothic. I'm going to paint the strat copy. And I did find a place that sells the top coat and shit for guitars but zero colors.. but it did say that Fender uses PPG paint and PPG makes car paint.. So i'll just have to find out if PPG makes a different kind of paint for guitars or what have you.

i painted one of my guitars....first i used 60 grit sandpaper and sanded the paint off...then used 120 grit sandpaper to make the guitar more smoth, then i used 260 grit to make the guitar perfect...then i covered up all of the parts i didnt want painted with this huge masking tape stuff, then i used an airbrush to paint the body. Before i painted it i put primer on first so the paint would last...I held the airbrush far from the body and put really really really light coats on....i think i did 5 or 6 coats. The guitar i did it on was a fairly shitty Hondo H-77 and i sold it...but the paint job was better then the original

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so it's possible, nice, what kinda color do you want to make it midnight?

I think airbrushing would be really cool, you know, duotone shit or flames


see ya around

Go to StewMac.com for everything you need.

My music teacher made a les paul copy (blah!) and i bought it for £3. haha, i spraypainted it yellow and my dad painted on metallic blue flames, looks pretty professional, and easy.

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Def i'm going to paint it shit brown.. hehe.. nah.. I'm just going to repaint it white.. it's like a shitass off white right now and i'm going to paint it BRIGHT white and do some graphics on it I guess.. maybe a huge penis on it.. I really don't know.. I just know i need a color change that's all..

Well... you i have a B.C. Rich...a warlock model...The Flesh Ring...i dropped the damn thing all fault of horrible headache caused because i dont wear glasses that i should...so the paintwork got all screwed up...well actually it´s a liitle hit wear the plug goes...but now i want to paint it black...damn headaches

I failed to Sophie... i dropped her... ishould put a bullet in my head... after i paint PITCH black ...yeah...

Nice of you to bring up a topic over 2 years old to tell us that.

You rule!

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ive painted 2 guitars both of which came out very good and used spray paint. just sand it down to wood then prime the shit out of it wet sand, prime again sand,etc for 3 times then paint it nice nice then clear and you should be good. theres a little more the that to it if your a reall fussy ass you can get car body filler and fill in all bumps from sanding and make its really smooth.

Ive painted many guitars with just spray paint.. not hard. http://home.flash.net/~guitars/

Just make sure you strip the previous finish down real good. And I believe your talking about Laquer/Polyurathane.. ect



Use Heavy Duty spray paint if you dont have an airbrush, Auto Paints are nice.. and I've had good luck with Rustoleum.

Just read that link I have you.. and wet sand... ALOT

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Oh...welll...I guess we´re done with this topic...so...

Hell yes. That Rustoleum professional heavy duty enamal is good stuff. I just finished making a diamond plate pickguard for my Explorer and used that to paint it black. It turned out fucking incredible. Much tougher finish than I thought it would be.

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It's in my left hand!

I ust found out te border of my B.C. Rich is plastic made!...tough...te wood has NO damage at all...it sounded really cool when it touched the ground...

By the way... waht does:"it figures" means?

Understand. Logical.

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