A cool finish for your nexr guitar project

[CeeBee]

How about a crackled finish on the guitar?

[vomitHatSteve]

That's neat.
Tho having seen the red, I would definitely opt for something that didn't look like a wannabe frankenstrat

[rayc]

Yeah, the demo model is a bit too EVH. I used to be into wild finishes but these days I don't care what things look like unless they are fun & whacky 60s Japanese things.

[Greg_L]

Nope

[Farview]

This was all the rage 35 years ago...

[Armistice]

Not my thing, especially in that colour combo. Very EVH, as noted.

This type of crackled finish, apart from being a hair metaller's wet dream, is a bit more interesting.



Love a sparkle. Crackle not so much.

[Tadpui]

When I was just getting into playing electric guitar in the late 80s and early 90s, our town's only music shop carried Series 10 guitars. Anybody remember those? They were pretty low quality imported super Strat guitars and they loved using that crackle finish. I still think of Series 10 every time I see that finish.

I still have my Aria Pro II tiger stripe guitar. It lives in the closet. he doesn't get to play with the other guitars lol

[vomitHatSteve]

Why is the neck still attached?!

[muttley]

Why is the neck still attached?!

It's a sacrificial dummy stick, just screwed to the body to aid handling and hanging.

Or if you mean the second video, it's a pile of shite.

[vomitHatSteve]

Why is the neck still attached?!

It's a sacrificial dummy stick, just screwed to the body to aid handling and hanging.

Ohhh! How about when they paint under where it attaches tho?

[WhiskeyJack]

I have somehow slept on this thread entirely.

It's an interesting technique. I've seen other ones where they dip the guitar into a bucket of water filled with layer of paint and stuff that sits on the surface. It is pretty cool too. I like the different ways people come up with doing some of this stuff. I don't know that i would ever try to take on a finish like those but i can respect the effort put into it.

[muttley]

It's a sacrificial dummy stick, just screwed to the body to aid handling and hanging.

Ohhh! How about when they paint under where it attaches tho?

You don't. The neck pocket isn't finished other than from the overspray that creeps in during spraying and any sealing you may want to do pre assembly.

[muttley]

I have somehow slept on this thread entirely.

It's an interesting technique. I've seen other ones where they dip the guitar into a bucket of water filled with layer of paint and stuff that sits on the surface. It is pretty cool too. I like the different ways people come up with doing some of this stuff. I don't know that i would ever try to take on a finish like those but i can respect the effort put into it.

That's swirling. The water bath is a mixture of soft water and borax with enamel paints on the surface that the guitar body picks up when it is immersed. I've done it a few times for shits and giggles. The guitar builds I am tired of these days are the epoxy ones.

[WhiskeyJack]

I have somehow slept on this thread entirely.

It's an interesting technique. I've seen other ones where they dip the guitar into a bucket of water filled with layer of paint and stuff that sits on the surface. It is pretty cool too. I like the different ways people come up with doing some of this stuff. I don't know that i would ever try to take on a finish like those but i can respect the effort put into it.

That's swirling. The water bath is a mixture of soft water and borax with enamel paints on the surface that the guitar body picks up when it is immersed. I've done it a few times for shits and giggles. The guitar builds I am tired of these days are the epoxy ones.

I'm really bored of the epoxy thing in general. It is everywhere. I recently reached out to a local group of people for just general wood working assitance and tool tuning help and not even lying there are two 'epoxy' guys there and they are as loud, obnoxious and know it all as you might expect them to be. To their credit they seem to do quite well with there little ocean Beach looking cutting boards and what not but it doesn't float my boat really.

Yawn.

[Tadpui]

Oh man epoxy crafting is everywhere. I noticed it a couple of years ago when I was watching a lot of woodworking on YouTube. It was almost overnight everybody was making epoxy wood hybrid tables and benches and guitars. The whole guitar made of pencils or jawbreakers or whatever random objects all boiled down to it being made of epoxy with the random thing just basically being a suspension in epoxy. It got tiring quickly, but it was cool to watch the first couple of times.

How the heck does an epoxy guitar withstand the couple hundred pounds of tension from the strings anyways? Seems it would tear out as soon as you got a set of .011 strings tuned to standard pitch.

[muttley]

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How the heck does an epoxy guitar withstand the couple hundred pounds of tension from the strings anyways? Seems it would tear out as soon as you got a set of .011 strings tuned to standard pitch.

The epoxy used for pouring is not the same as the epoxy used as an adhesive or for grain filling. Each have various properties and the stuff for pouring will take a screw or a thread as good as any timber.