Painting a guitar

deadpickle · Post by **deadpickle** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:48 pm

I have this old ventura electric from the 80's that I want to rebuild and repaint. What I want to do is wood stain the back of the guitar with polyshade and then spray paint a stripe on the back of the guitar, much like the stripe on many acoustic guitars. The problem is that the when I spray paint the stripe on the back it keeps bubbling up. I am open to ideas on how to do this, so anyone?

Blake · Post by **Blake** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:21 pm

try doing very very thin coats and dont hold the spray paint can so close to the guitar. dont try to make the stripe a solid color your first couple of coats. it will happen over time with multiple coats. just keep em thin and give it a few hours in between each coat so it can fully dry

deadpickle · Post by **deadpickle** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:41 pm

I forgot to state that I want to paint the stripe ON TOP of the polyshade. Would that still work?

Blake · Post by **Blake** » Fri May 11, 2007 3:45 pm

I have no idea

pjdk28 · Post by **pjdk28** » Sat May 12, 2007 6:03 pm

spray paint? wouldn't acryllic be better?

Thomas · Post by **Thomas** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:50 pm

http://www.reranch.com/

that website has a lot to tell about refinishing a guitar. spray paint isn't really going to cut it and is going to end up looking pretty crappy.

you can buy real paint from that site for the same price a can of spray paint from the hardware store will cost.

deadpickle · Post by **deadpickle** » Sun May 13, 2007 10:41 am

So acrylic paint will possibly stick to the polyshade ( wood stain and polyurethane in one). Blick art supplies sells craft paint that is acrylic that may work. Is there an easy way to get acrylic paint off without damaging the stain underneath?