How Would I Do This?

[Jandy]

I want to add some racing stripes to my guitar. Here's what it looks like now:

here's what I want to do:

Do you think if I were to print the stripes on transparency and adhere them to the guitar, then just relaquer it would work?

Project guitar has a lesson on how to add oyur own logo on the headstock.. I was wondering if I could simply follow this to add something similar directly on the body...

http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/logo.htm

[Nitefly SA]

just paint it on, after a while dirt woud get caught on the side of the decal and it would just look much better painted on

[marksound]

There's always somebody on ebay selling the Mustang-type stripe kits, and I've seen several other similar ones out there. Google "guitar decal kit."

[Jandy]

just paint it on, after a while dirt woud get caught on the side of the decal and it would just look much better painted on

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Would i have to strip all the paint? Or could i just paint over the finish and then relaquer?

[thegarehanman]

It might be hard to lay an ordinary sticker down across the arched surface of an lp. It'd probably have to be a vinyl sticker for it to work right. Up close, it'd look like a sticker though, there's no way around that. If you want the stripe so badly, I say paint the guitar.

[Maiden69]

Clean the top with naphta/

mask the back, sides, and fretboard/

sand with 400-600 to get some grip for the black paint/

mask area to stay white/

spray very thin coat (you don't want it too thick) of GOOD black paint (createx air brush paint is darn good for this) /

Wait one hour (you don't want the paint completely dry since it may chip a little bit when you remove the tape) and remove the mask on the top of the guitar/

lightly sand the edges of the black lines were they meet the top and bottom of the guitar/

spray several coats of clear, Wait one hour (you don't want the paint completely dry since it may chip a little bit when you remove the tape) /

Wait until the clear has cured and/

wet sand and buff.