I have a Kramer Pacer that I just picked up, It has a strat style body, and a strat style trem. Sometime this week I'm gonna remove the trem to put in a fixed bridge patch up the whole where the trem was with wood putty. I was thinking about this and I figured instead of stripping the whole body down and repainting it, or trying to match the color and paint over where the wood putty is, I am just going to paint the front of it, right now it is a sparkly ice blue color shown here.
What I want to do is to paint just the front of the body black, and have stripes of the ice blue color.
Like this:
http://img23.imageshack.us/my.php?image=532397.png
So here are my questions,
Should I sand off the old paint? (except obviously in the area where the stripes will be)
If I leave the old paint on will the black paint peel? Should I try to sand off the clear coat?
What is the best tape to use? I always seem to get lines with mine, is that just a technique thing?