TortexFromHell

Maybe I will take all the paint off of the body, I think it will be less work in the long run.

Hopefully I can find paint that matches the stuff on there now, that way it will still match the neck.

First thing first:

Put down that putty, and never look back.

You need to fill the void with wood, not wood putty.

There is a tutorial for trem to hardtail conversion.

Check it out....

ok, I found the tutorial here:http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/tht1.htm (just in case anyone is curious about the same thing)

I understand the concepts in it, and i'll get on that sometime soon.

now, can anyone answer my other questions.....

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?