Colored Epoxy Grain Fill

[verhoevenc]

Has anyone ever tried doing a grain fill with epoxy BESIDES black or clear? IE: what would happen if you took some of that stewmac stain and mixed it in with your epoxy and then filled the grain with say... red? Cause then you could have a cool "red and white" (provided you're useing a light colored wood) natural looks. OR if you shot say... blue over that, you'd have blue finish but with what I'm guessing would turn out as purple grain 'low-lights' (opposite of highlights??)

Chris

[thegarehanman]

You know you can tint normal clear grainfiller.

[verhoevenc]

You know you can tint normal clear grainfiller.

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Yeah, I know, hense my question, has anyone done just that, and how did it turn out. ie: anyone got pics of this?

Chris

[thegarehanman]

Well I wouldn't know that if someone hadn't done it(der). Do a google image search for a gibson voodoo guitar. They were painted black, then grainfilled with a red tinted grainfiller, then laquered with semigloss laquer. It's been done to death actually, hehe.

[verhoevenc]

Hahahaha, thanks.

I wouldn't have even realised that's what those were lol.

Chris

[Black Mariah]

Coolest guitar I've seen like that was a Jackson that was white with a blue/green grain.

[XPLOAD]

Well I wouldn't know that if someone hadn't done it(der). Do a google image search for a gibson voodoo guitar. They were painted black, then grainfilled with a red tinted grainfiller, then laquered with semigloss laquer. It's been done to death actually, hehe.

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cheers, i was always wondering how they did that

[darren wilson]

Some of my favourite finishes involve using contrasting grain filler.

Example 1

Example 2

[thegarehanman]

MOMMY! I love that black bass w/ white grainfiller. How would one go about tinting filler opaque white. hmmm. Maybe stewmac's white colortone in clear grainfiller.

[verhoevenc]

Ok, went to the home depot today, and bought the ONLY epoxy the guy said they had that would dry clear. It's Famowood Glaze Coat pour-on high gloss epoxy coating. And even though it's a COATING I though "eh, it looks pretty thin to start out, it'll geti nto the grain, plus the guy says it dries really hard.

Opinions?

Chris

[Daniel Sorbera]

Wouldn't it be really hard to sand the grain filler flush without sanding through the black coat underneath?

[thegarehanman]

You can put a finish on really thick before it totally fills the pores. So, "no." It'd be easier to sand grainfiller than epoxy though. So you'd have to worry much less w/ the colored grainfiller as opposed to colored epoxy, but if you take the right precautions, I don't think there's need for worry. It doesn't matter if the finish gets a little dulled while you're sanding anyhow because you're clearing over it in the end.

[Devon Headen]

I have a really good feeling there will be sand throughs if you use epoxy. If you've never worked with it before you don't realize how messy it can be when you spread it over a whole guitar. I'd try to find some regular grainfiller to tint personally, it would be a lot easier to work with.

[verhoevenc]

PRS did a beautiful example with it's "modern eagle" guitar. Blue stain with white grain:

Chris

[Daniel Sorbera]

You don't fill the grain on maple because there is no grain to fill. PRS got the white and blue effect by staining, sanding back, and staining again.

[Pr3Va1L]

wouldn't it be simpler to stain black then use tinted grainfiller then just sand back till only the grain lines are filler, then some clear (matte preferably)