Moon Monkey Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 Hey peeps... Got a few Ideas for guitar building.... been planning for years to do something like this but will only attempting it for the first time shortly... Found loads of good stuff out there and have good ideas on how to paint and finish off etc... For my first build I'm just gonna buy a tele kit... everything included... costing around £70... I know the guitar will probably suck but I wanna start on something crappy rather than splashing out on a £200 body that's been prepped and made properly only to destroy it within 5 minutes... I have one Idea... which I'm going to keep mostly quiet.... but involves artwork that there's no way I could paint on myself... I was wondering if I got the atrwork professionally printed so I could pretty much just stick it on the guitar is there any way that I could get a top coat smooth so that it doesn't just look like i've glued on a bit of paper? for example as if it was part of the finish? I've seen people cover their guitars with stickers and it's something similar I'm planning but rather than have them ontop of the laquer I'd like them under the laquer... fully preserved... would I be able to have a smooth finish or will every edge stick out a mile? as i say before be sure to shoot me down if it's gonna look like a piece of turd... (unless that's the look I'm going for!!!) Quote
westhemann Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 yes you can do it.you have to put a thick enough coat of clear on it so that when you sand it back level(to get rid of the raised part over the stickers)you don't sand through. read the tutorials on the main site Quote
Guitar WIll Posted March 28, 2007 Report Posted March 28, 2007 On this site there is a like to using fabric to finish the guitar. I assume that you could go through the same processes to achieve a similar effect. The best thing to do would be to try on a small piece of scrap wood and then see what happens. Quote
Moon Monkey Posted March 28, 2007 Author Report Posted March 28, 2007 cheers for that mate!!! Looking forward to tryin out some of the Ideas on here!!! :D Quote
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