zeppelinchld

this is an idea i had. studded pickup rings. those are my 2 dimarzio super distortion. ill reinforce it tomoro. its mounted onto cardboard right now.

i think im goin to end up doing a kinda judas priest looking thing. w/ chains and spikes.

thanks guys for the feedback. im short on $$$ right now so is there any cheap material i can get to practice w/ or even use on my guitar later on. i think i saw some acrylic sheets in the tutorial page??????

i just got a new dremel, and i was wondering how to get started w/ inlays.

ok, im planning on getting my metal sound from my 2 super distortion humbuckers. so im just interested in making it look cooler. i kno metal can b played on almost any guitar so plz stop telling me.

thanks for the feedback so far.

i like the bevel idea. but how do i turn the binding route into a bevel???

its not that i dont like kiss. i just want a badass guitar. like metal matts are. by the way i hate hatebreed. about the pickups. i got 2 dimarzio super distortion that im putting next to each other and a emg style jackson humbucker, that i got for payment for replacing it w/ a X2N in my friends guitar.

you can get a perfectly good finish w/ spray cans. if u do it right! ive done a couple of guitars w/ spray cans and they look fantastic. i hav one thats a year or two old and it is still perfect. when clear coating w/ spray cans u need like 35 thin coats. then let it sit for two months. that is a disadvantage to using spray cans. then b sure to keep the guitar away from rubber. spray can paint and rubber just dont get alon. i try to avoid buying anything for my guitars that has rubber.

i need to know a way to make this guitar more metal. i just think of paul stanley and kiss when i see it. ive basically destroyed it now. this pic is of it brand new. ive filled most of the knob holes and i just cut it out for 3 humbuckers. filled the bridge/stopbar holes and hav this strange bridge im making w/ old strat bridge parts. i want this to b hardcore, not kiss-esque.

Got any ideas?

ya ive tried doing pvc binding before, it looks ok, not as good as regular binding.

i hav a new X2N and i wired it parallel and i am getting hum. its not supposed to get any hum? how do i fix this

i hav 3 new humbuckers and i was wondering if there is a simple way to install them. like w/o using tone pots or anything like that.

not all squiers are made of plywood? ive refinished two squiers lately and neither were plywood. it wasnt good wood, but not ply. i think the korean/chinese models are plywood. i did an american made and a mexican made. the american had better wood. the american had an ok grain, cuz it looks pretty good w/a dye sunburst.

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y would u need a bone nut if u used a floyd nut.

try making a diagram, it would help me understand

i dont kno if its just the picture or me but that looks like a huge chip to the left of that cavity.

i still love the idea of the neon yellow. i really need to do an rg to jem conversion.

yes graphite paper is just paper w/ graphite on one side so if u draw on one side if will draw the image underneath it. I hav never used laquer on painted guitars before and on the lunar guitar he uses an airbrush. i think he is laquering because he doesnt want to mix the chemicals in the airbrush paint and his base paints. I think that if u dont use an airbrush and dont use different types of paint then just letting the colors dry should b ok. For example i use krylon spray paint so even when i would do small star speckles like urs i would still use krylon instead of using a different brand/type of paint.

i got an airbrush for christmas so i might experiment w/ laquers like the lunar guitar.

by the way what kind of guitar are u using.

zeppelinchld, thanks so much for all your replies! your advice is invaluable and i'm glad someone is helping me out with these first steps

the only thing i'm not sure about now is your way of doing the complex images with masking using painters tape - to start with i would be a little worried cutting out tape with any knife when its attached to the body incase i harmed the black coat - but i guess you cant help me with that xD thats all down to my own skill.

but i'm not sure how you would mask such a complex image with multiple colours? unless.. I suppose I could print the angel and the moon onto paper, trace them onto say grease paper or tracing paper and then rub hard with a pencil to transfer an outline onto the body. then I guess I could mask only the bits of the image I wasnt painting and paint one part, remove tape and mask again?

but I would be worried that the tape would lift paint off parts i had previously done... is that likely to happen?

also a pencil outline would be very hard to see on a black coat :/

i hope u mean my help is valuable.

in this picture you can c that the whole body was masked off. i had an extra template for a strat like body lying around so i taped it on top of the body. underneath the template you want to put graphite paper so you can trace the areas u want cut out and it will show up on the painters tape. then if u can c the very bottom corner of the body i had cut out some of the tape where i want to spray black. you would do this to the whole body before spraying.

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each color is masked off at different times. on ur design you would spray the body black first.

then you would cut out only one area of the design that would need the next color. then take all the tape off. remask and cut out the next area that needs a new color. when applying tape to the body you need to make sure each color has dried for a least a day, if your really worried about pulling up paint, then let the body dry for a day or two(mayb 3).

the pencil outline wouldnt b on the paint, it would b on top of the tape covering the body so it should be easy to see. since u do a lot of art, u should have different types of pencils? use the softess led possible so u dont cut through tape until you use an x acto knife.

- on the above page is "clear acrylic" the same as lacquer and clear coat that people mention to finish a paint job with? if not, what the clear sealer section?

it isnt a lacquer but w/ a certain amount of coats like i said before it should harden like laquer and it will make it shine.

- for painting the simple stars in the design can anyone come up with a better idea than soaking a small artists brush in paint and flicking the bristles with your thumb to create a scatter/speckle effect? the stars dont have to be the same as on the design, that was just me clicking with a mouse whilst eating chicken

i think you should buy a very fine detail brush and dip it in white paint then dab on each star.

- if the base coat is sprayed on (solid black) using the above type of spray paint, is there any particular type of paint i should use for the stars and fine detailing the stencil designs?

spray white spray paint(same brand as u said) in the lid so that there is enough to hav it liquidize. then dip the brush in it.

- how many coats of solid black? just until theres absolutly no primer showing through or do a set number regardless of what the eye says for "good measure"?

you need about 3 - 4 extremely thin coats, after about the 3 coat the primer should be completely covered. dont overdue each coat. leave about 15 minutes between coats of the same color, leave about 24 hours before changing colors.

- if i have to put multiple coats of black on will I then have to worry about multiple coats of paint for the stencils?

- finally, i've seen some ppl talk about sanding things back down between coats of paint and clear. nessiary? or do all the painting, apply all the layers of clear and THEN sand?

u probably shouldnt sand between color coats but the cleear should be sanded after all coats are put on and dried then use polishs talked about on the forum

again only 3-4 thin coats, dont overdue the coats

ya it looks like its been done in a factory somewhere cuz a couple of them hav been sold just like mine, but there probably cheap because some of them havent been completed. mine was missing some wire routing and and input jack hole.

i think that if u were to lay the laminated design on the body u would either get fuzzy lines or if u accidently spray a heavy coat it will run underneath the laminated design. once the design is set on the body it wouldnt b able to move either because you should do multiple THIN coats so u would hav to line up the design multiple times and may not b consistent. i like the flip book idea and yes it works for graffitti artists because they do complicated designs very quickly but u should not rush you guitar project. u should use lay the flip book designs on tape covering the body then cut the design out of the tape w/ an x acto knife. ive painted multiple guitars using only spray cans using different techniques. and taping of the body and cutting out the design is the most promising technique.

also i was wondering if u r still doing the stars????

i just read some more of ur post and u ask about stencils. i dont know what u think a stencil is but u wouldnt just lay something on it and spray.

u hav to cover the body in blue painters tape then draw the design on the tape(in pencil, not markers or sharpie cuz when u spray it the ink will run into ur paint). then u would cut out the design from the tape with an x acto knife

first of all hav u painted a guitar before???????

if your interested in learning to paint w/ spray cans, buy books at this website. www.paintyourownguitar.com.

that paint job will probably b hard to do, not a beginner paint job, it really detailed for spray cans.

for the stars if u use the speckle brush idea it wont be consistent and u will get a lot more stars than the angel design u did has.

sorry i didnt read your whole post but it was REALLY lONG!!!!!!!! so i think u were talking about clear. if you want to use spray can clear which would b good to do if your doing the design w/ spray cans, you will need about 35 coats of clear, mayb 3 cans worth, and i know thats a lot, but when u wetsand it, u will need a lot of clear on top to level out the ridges in the paint or u will just sand right into the design u put a lot of hard work into. also with spray cans u need to let the 35ish coats of clear set for about 2 months, more would b better, but thats how long it takes to get the wood to absorb the clear and hav it b suitable to wetsand.

ya, the body is made by washburn and its similar to an iceman so i didnt know what else to call it.

sorry for being a noob but how do you find the scale

i really need help on what to do with this neck cuz i want to fit it to the body so i can start painting them

i had read on a website that it could be used as a binding material and i didnt know much about binding materials. thanks for telling me about ABS, i didnt know u could get it so cheap.

sadly i dont hav a router but i would love to get one

after looking at it recently i noticed that that truss rod looks kinda strange and i dont know if i should replace it???