Guitar Paint Design

Maddface

Maddface

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Trying to come up with an original paint look that you dont see everyday. Looking to paint my new charvel.














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Ooooooh...we had wallpaper that looked just like those when I was a kid. My favorite was the tin foil + green&black fuzz wallpaper in the sunken living room. No joke. As long as you can clearcoat the metallic to protect it you should get a lot of compliments. #2 is my favorite.
 
I dig #2, but without the "thumbtacks" around the perimeter...

Just me, or do option 3 and 4 feel "upside down"?
 
I like 3/4 better... You probably really want to layout the pickups and bridge to see how the patterns work visually once there's stuff in the way.
 
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You painting it yourself? If not, be careful who you choose. I recently had a refinish done by a "pro" who has been the business for decades and the whole process was a trainwreck. Ultimately had to do a dispute with my bank .
 
What do you think of black vertical? Im going to try to take a picture of the charvel and do this layout with the hardware on it.
Ill be painting it myself. The base coat will be a metallic color shifting paint.






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I like them all but- with a bridge and pickups I don't think they'll play out as well as you hope

I think 1 and 2 would work out best either way- but I hate the dots
 
Morphine said:
Either one looks cool, but I think horizontal will look best when it's being played.
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right on.... Im planning to stop the design before it reaches the back. Maybe with some type of binding paint strip. Or maybe just fade it out. If i did the binding paint line, then I could put the same design on the back and not worry in trying to match.
 
Morphine said:
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You painting it yourself? If not, be careful who you choose. I recently had a refinish done by a "pro" who has been the business for decades and the whole process was a trainwreck. Ultimately had to do a dispute with my bank .
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Aye. Painting a guitar is easily the most complicated and pain in the ass part of building a guitar. If I worked full time I reckon I could do the construction part of a guitar build in a couple of weeks, but a good paint job would easily take months.
 
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Very cool. Seems Louisiana-inspired? Kind of a fleur-de-lis/NOLA thing?
 
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