Painting A Recessed Floyd Rose Trem Rout

[Winston O'Boogie]

hey all...

i have a warmoth basswood body that came already finished (i believe they use urethane?). it was always routed for a floyd setup but i had a pro friend rout it for a recessed floyd setup--so now the recessed area is all naked basswood, so to speak and i'm just figuring out what to do with it. i'd like to paint it a separate solid color maybe but it's really tight in there so i'm not sure how i would wetsand and buff and all that other good stuff in there. has anyone ever finished only their trem rout? any suggestions on how to go about it?

thanks!!

[rahimiiii]

I think most people doesnt buff and polish that area... its a little hard to do that. If you want you can take a peice of paper or felt pads and glue it in the recessed cavity...

[Xanthus]

http://projectguitar.com/tut/cavdress.htm

Hope it helps.

[Winston O'Boogie]

thanks, that definitely did help... i'm gonna try to find some thin adhesive foam and go to town... any ideas on how to handle the bare basswood walls of the cavity? i don't have a compressor/spray gun so i have to rely on the infamous rattlecan (not so bad because paint hardness doesn't quite matter as much in the trem cavity)... and i guess i should stick to polys because that's what the rest of the guitar is finished with?

thanks!!

[Xanthus]

Hmm, I take it the foam would be too thick to cover the walls with too, then? I don't see why you couldn't just get some flat black rattlecan paint and put a quick dusting on the cavity. If you do it that way, you probably wouldn't need to use the foam method, no? The foam is really helpful if you pull up on the whammy a lot.

Just make sure to tape off the entire guitar, no matter what you do. That darned overspray can get into places you never thought

[westhemann]

i use a brush to black it out

[Winston O'Boogie]

yeah... i was thinking that whatever foam/felt i use would probably be a little too thick to cover the walls with... so i think i'm gonna hit the area with a little black before i lay the foam down...

could i just use a little flat black krylon or something? i will definitely watch for overspray too...

westhemann--what kind of paint do you use to brush-on?

thanks for all your help, everyone...

[westhemann]

i use the same conductive paint i use for the control cavities...i get it from stewmac.it's just flat black so it doesn't reflect and i always have some on hand.

you could use anything really

[Racer X]

You could run some masking tape around the top edges of the route, and using an Xacto knife, trim off any overhanging areas, so as to create a smoothe edge. Make sure to mask off the rest of the immediate surrounding area, on top, to, to avoid overspray. A paintbomb should be just fine for this job. Doesn't see alot of action, and is pretty well hidden, too.