My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
You go, girl!
Uh, I mean you go, Greg !
Uh, I mean you go, Greg !
Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
Greg, have you got some sort of asbestos coated guitar?
Don't paint that. Looks cool as it is. stick a humbucker in it and you're good to go.
Don't paint that. Looks cool as it is. stick a humbucker in it and you're good to go.
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That thing is grotesque, Greg! Should be good practice for painting, though,
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I'm not sticking a fucking humbucker in it. Lol.
I hope!
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Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
I'm thinking if this thing isn't "wood" then painting it will work, but it's not as true a test (or practice) for the real thing. I guess you could try painting it anyway to practice. I'm kinda wondering if Chibsons are like this....
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Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
Chibsons are usually sort of like this. Except they are at least real wood. They're not some weird ply with a mystery coating. They're solid wood with a very thin wood, or wood looking veneer.
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Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
It looks like skateboard ply haha. Thats pretty cool.
Would it be melamine? or that weird shit they make hockey rink walls out of?
Would it be melamine? or that weird shit they make hockey rink walls out of?
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Yeah like I know anything about hockey rinks. It' 85 degrees today down here in February.WhiskeyJack wrote: ↑Tue Feb 21, 2017 12:34 pm It looks like skateboard ply haha. Thats pretty cool.
Would it be melamine? or that weird shit they make hockey rink walls out of?
But anyway, it could be melamine I suppose. Seems kind of flaky and thin for melamine, but fuck if I know.
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Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
In the past on cheap painted up guitars the crafty fuckers have used all sorts of stuff to get a quick and flat base for painting over. Most common would be car body filler type epoxy, regular casting epoxy, plain old epoxy and on some of the better ones a veneer backer which is a phenolic based paper sheeting used in the veneer trade to stabalise panels without using decent veneer on the back... I suspect that maybe what you have.
Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
Yeah, that is what it seems like. Smooth, flat, almost like a plastic.muttley wrote: ↑Fri Feb 24, 2017 2:16 pm
In the past on cheap painted up guitars the crafty fuckers have used all sorts of stuff to get a quick and flat base for painting over. Most common would be car body filler type epoxy, regular casting epoxy, plain old epoxy and on some of the better ones a veneer backer which is a phenolic based paper sheeting used in the veneer trade to stabalise panels without using decent veneer on the back... I suspect that maybe what you have.
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Re: My first guitar - found! Gonna paint it.
I recon it's a veneer backer then. They come in various thickenesses and are used to balance the grain of the veneer on the face side of panels. Basically they are a paper composite that has a lot of strength and resists the pull of wood grain. You can normally sand it OK and it takes all normal paint so you will be OK is if stays there. You can fill right up to it with body filler and go right over that if you need to. It's dimensionally very stable.