JTisMe Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 (edited) Always like red....and always like bursts. Here are a couple of recent efforts. First up is a Black Limba (Korina) strat style body that is now the proud home of the guts from a Line 6 variax 500. Since I couldn't just leave it at that I also added in a set of Tom Anderson magnetic pickups and put in a toggle to switch between the two systems out the same 1/4" output jack. -jeff Edited December 24, 2004 by JTisMe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTisMe Posted December 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 Next is an EVH style. Lic. Original Floyd Rose bridge, Pearly Gates 'bucker and a pair of Rio Grande singles. Sperzels lock the strings in good and help keep it in tune after dive bombs. -jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzocchi705 Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 WOW thats one noce lookin guitar you got there. Im going with that colour on my next project. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 Red! I want red. There's no substitute for red. WOW! Nice work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy Carl Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 Nice dude. I've got some black limba inbound & that's the first time I've actually seen color on limba. How'd you do it? Dye the wood or spray tinted lacquer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marzocchi705 Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 A toutorial for that finish would be VERY handy, ive never done one, and want to do one but i wouldnt know where to start. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTisMe Posted December 24, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 (edited) Thanks for the positive comments. I started with a clear sandable sealer from Ace. Next I applied several coats of PPG DBC500 tinted with a candy red House of Kolor Intensifier tinted slightly with orange dye. That is how I got the transparent candy red effect. I then took the rest of the mixed basecoat and added black dye, a little more each coat, to get the color for the edges. In person what you see is the original color darkening as it gets to the sides where it become almost black but still with a hint of candy. Finished it off with several coats of DC2021 high solids clear. Edited December 27, 2004 by JTisMe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darren wilson Posted December 24, 2004 Report Share Posted December 24, 2004 Very nice! That finish really brought out the stripes in the limba! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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