Andy Eagle
Fractal Fanatic
You can see the white balance is different. But the difference is about way more than the colour.
If you look at the grain near the neck you see a very typical pattern that is found on the flat surface of all ash guitars somewhere. On here it is all across the body and it would be on any thinly painted ash body that wasn't extensively grain filled. The 5150 is categorically not swamp ash.This is how swamp ash looks if you paint the bare wood;
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Clearly visible ash grain and a completely different look on the arm contour .
Paul made this guitar and it's pretty clear that 5150 is not this.
Looks awesome. Well done.I have decided to go with some GMwa7753 red orange 1k acrylic for the red. I will dust the first coat as Peter W. suggested in order to minimise the clean up but I'm not going to do a thin white first because this is aerosol 2k and once you mix it that's it.
So here goes;
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This is with no clean up so that works with just a dusty light first coat (thanks Peter W. for the tip.)
I need to leave this for a day or two now before I can do the back.