again this was left for a week to sink back and dry,then the final sand down was using 320,500,and 800 grits,
as for the colour well i like black ,but this time i wanted to add a litle something so i started with a black base,
then sprayed a red pearl mix in a dye ,which i then took some screwed up plastic and dabed the plastic all over the guitar this pulled up small bits of the red revieling the black underneath ,kinda looks like a scaley patern if you look carefully but also being a pearl in some lights it look jet black then on other angles it looks red,kinda a cool effect and just something differnt i wanted to try,the painting took several hours of work but in the end i think it payed off .
also i made up 2 jigs to hold the guitar in a way that i was going to be able to use the bonnet stand we use for spraying bonnets at work,if you see my first post youll see the crazy sett up i made for the draco guitar,this was similar ,
but made it in 2 parts both clamped onto the boonet stand the top one going thru the tuner holes and clamping in place and the bottom one was actualy threaded rods that i threaded into the ferrule holes this worked great as there was no need to touch the guitar in any way or drill ramdom holes to hold it while i sprayed ,also using the stand gave me the advatage of being able to have it vertical and horizontal ,vertical for the back and horizonal for the tops was the best way alowing me to slam the hell out of it with out to much fear off runs flooding the booth and having to swim out there ,hahaha ,no i was very lucky there were no runs and considering what i had to paint with the crazy ass shapes specialy around the bat head area ,that was tuff but i got it all ,so heres som e shots of the paining in progress