Help! Pics of shell pink Strat with gold hardware, tort pickguard? Done. Sort of.
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335clone
Living the dream
If there is a color you find you like, post it and I'll scan over it and give you the RGB numbers. If you are using a different code type, there are converters
https://www.rapidtables.com/convert/color/rgb-to-hex.html
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Today I learned the definition of opaque.
Definition of opaque
1: blocking the passage of radiant energy and especially light : exhibiting opacity (see OPACITY sense 1)
2a: hard to understand or explainopaque prose
b: OBTUSE, THICKHEADED
What I thought I knew what opaque means- Not transparent or semi-transparent, like a stain but, not like paint where you don't see through it at all. The coverage of whitewash maybe?
I kept reading about how many coats you would need to put on and "don't add more than 15% of pigments or it will retard drying" So I was trying to ask how one coat of the paint that I make, over the white primer would translate to what it would look like after all the coats of paint are on and dried.
So, I think now I can find the color with mixing, trial and error. Hope I don't need to get more pigments but if I have to, I have to.
To give you an idea of what I'm going for, lets say these guitar are pink instead of blue. The guitar on the left is shell pink, one on right is what I'm going for.
335clone
Living the dream
You might want to go to TDPRI and ask some who have been doing this for years. Yeah it's a Tele forum but strats are discussed all the time, and this is about applying finish.
https://www.tdpri.com/forums/finely-finished.47/
And I also used to think opaque was the same as translucent. It's been misused over the years to imply semi transparent.
https://www.tdpri.com/forums/finely-finished.47/
And I also used to think opaque was the same as translucent. It's been misused over the years to imply semi transparent.
Lerxst
spaghetti and blankets
There's nothing wrong w/ mixing your own color but it's worth keeping in mind that you're unlikely to ever mix the exact same color twice by trail and error.
For some context, if you translate yellow to RGB (since some were asking if yellow affected the pink), pure yellow is 255 red, 255 green, 0 blue. So, if you look at these values for the color, it's basically a light grey with a little yellow and a little red on top of that.
sunvalleylaw
Yep.
Can we all just agree that mother of toilet seat is just wrong, regardless of anyone’s feelings on tort??
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Middle child had his last tests a week ago Thursday. He got As on both of them. Not officially graduated but close enough. Yesterday was his party, preceded by, chores the wife gave me, to get house ready for the party. I did have time to tear it apart, hope to have some time next weekend.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Cold here. Last week, got rid of the polyester skin, and patched missing chunks of wood. Yesterday I sanded patches. Another area flaked off while I was sanding, not nearly as deep, was read to sand this morning. Yesterday, I also cleaned the garage and ordered a Callaham bridge. No, I was planning to keep the hardware. Son asked me what my plan for the hardware was, I said it's a Fender so, it doesn't need upgrading. Guess that's not the case. Pissed at myself, if I knew I was ditching the gold hardware, I could of lived with the body being trans blue. Supposed to get up to 70 around 4 this afternoon then I can prime.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Thought I would be farther after a 3 day weekend.
Was hoping joint would dissapear when I primed, it didn't. It's slowly filling in with coat after coat of some primer I have with a little foam brush, saving what's left of spray can of shellac based primer to someday go over the guitar again. On the horn, a little spot I patched, need to sand it yet again. Can only see it when I prime and it's all one color, then it looks like a mountain.
I've always liked sunvalleylaw's Strat and every time I stick the old pickguard, "tort" on the primed, "white" body to see what it covers, I think, dam that looks good.
Was hoping joint would dissapear when I primed, it didn't. It's slowly filling in with coat after coat of some primer I have with a little foam brush, saving what's left of spray can of shellac based primer to someday go over the guitar again. On the horn, a little spot I patched, need to sand it yet again. Can only see it when I prime and it's all one color, then it looks like a mountain.
I've always liked sunvalleylaw's Strat and every time I stick the old pickguard, "tort" on the primed, "white" body to see what it covers, I think, dam that looks good.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Well, about a month ago, I tried my Wagner power painter. Did not work. I bought an actual spray gun
https://www.harborfreight.com/adjustable-detail-spray-gun-92126.html
It's the only one that the CFM that's close to what my compressor puts out. Compressor is a pancake compressor for work. Don't want or have room for something with a 50 gallon tank.
Cheapo that everybody on Youtube says is wonderful. Yesterday, I was off work and the humidity wasn't sky high. I moved shit again, vacuumed the garage...
...put on my mask, hazmat suit... I put he gun in my vice to hold it while I filled the cup with paint. Very carefully, pour some paint into the tiny cup, close up paint and take the gun out of the vice. There is paint on the vice. Thought wow, I thought I didn't spill a drop. Then see my hand is covered in paint. Gun is leaking by where the trigger is. Starting to think the universe doesn't want me to paint this guitar.
https://www.harborfreight.com/adjustable-detail-spray-gun-92126.html
It's the only one that the CFM that's close to what my compressor puts out. Compressor is a pancake compressor for work. Don't want or have room for something with a 50 gallon tank.
Cheapo that everybody on Youtube says is wonderful. Yesterday, I was off work and the humidity wasn't sky high. I moved shit again, vacuumed the garage...
...put on my mask, hazmat suit... I put he gun in my vice to hold it while I filled the cup with paint. Very carefully, pour some paint into the tiny cup, close up paint and take the gun out of the vice. There is paint on the vice. Thought wow, I thought I didn't spill a drop. Then see my hand is covered in paint. Gun is leaking by where the trigger is. Starting to think the universe doesn't want me to paint this guitar.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
Like that a lot.
DinoMikeSr
I have the box
Should start liking pink since John Mayer just showed his sig model in pink. Oh and his new album Sob Rock dropped so welcome back to the 80’s and Miami Vice clothes too.
Peen Simmons
Let’s Get Obtuse!
Seems like the universe wants you to paint the entire universe shell pink.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Next day, Sept 3, Friday before labor Say weekend, I had a short day... A couple of years ago, I had to do a spiral staircase, all metal so, no wood to staple into. Bought a gallon of contact cement and a little 4' wide roller to put it on. Still have the roller and more covers for it. It went on great, would of been a great start and really jumpstart my project instead of layer after thin layer of paint but, it dried with little bumps all over it. Either from being too think/not letting gas out or, agitation from roller added air bubbles.
Sanded it down Saturday morning, started thinking about just buying a couple of cans of spray paint/ Krylon glitter blast.
Nowhere near what I originally started to do but, I thought about it. On the drive to town, I kept going back and forth- buy another gun or, rattle can. Bought two guns. Reading how you "bury the glitter with clear to get a smooth finish" I decided I didn't want the dipped in plastic thing for this guitar. I bought two guns. Also tried to buy some Glitter Blast for when both guns don't work, so I don't have to drive back to Bradley again but, Every place I tried was out. I do have a plywood Tele body I might use it on someday, or maybe the purple.
First gun I tried worked. Kind of, It's just slow going. On the bright side, it is impossible to put too much on and have it run. Don't know how good of a finish I'll end up with but, I'm really happy with the color. Not sure where the white pickguard is, trem cover is white, helps you see the guitar is not white.
Sanded it down Saturday morning, started thinking about just buying a couple of cans of spray paint/ Krylon glitter blast.
Nowhere near what I originally started to do but, I thought about it. On the drive to town, I kept going back and forth- buy another gun or, rattle can. Bought two guns. Reading how you "bury the glitter with clear to get a smooth finish" I decided I didn't want the dipped in plastic thing for this guitar. I bought two guns. Also tried to buy some Glitter Blast for when both guns don't work, so I don't have to drive back to Bradley again but, Every place I tried was out. I do have a plywood Tele body I might use it on someday, or maybe the purple.
First gun I tried worked. Kind of, It's just slow going. On the bright side, it is impossible to put too much on and have it run. Don't know how good of a finish I'll end up with but, I'm really happy with the color. Not sure where the white pickguard is, trem cover is white, helps you see the guitar is not white.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Can't stand shell pink or tort, and as expected the combination looks absolutely dreadful and should be illegal.
Yeah, fuck all those assholes who like pink guitars.....
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
I have a big air compressor out in my garage (big enough that when it tipped over on me, I had to go to the doctor because it damaged the ligaments in my elbow)... but it's foooking looouuud.
I knew when I was working in my house with an air nailer, I needed a quiet compressor, and I didn't want to spend a fortune... so I went to harbor freight.
Surprisingly, this is a pretty kick ass air compressor. Wasn't the cheapest one, but still within my budget, but the quietest compressor I've used by far.
https://www.harborfreight.com/air-t...-hand-carry-jobsite-air-compressor-64592.html
I have an older spray gun that my dad used to repaint race cars with, but I might have to look at one of those detail guns for guitar painting.
Bob411
thrumming with potential
Body is smooth to the touch but, nowhere close to the surface being one level. Would have to sand all the paint off to accomplish that. Maybe next summer. Maybe not. Anyways, decided to not wait anymore, not bother putting clear over, that I'll probably remove and put it back together.
Sonicly, it has taken 1st place away from the Peavy Predator, the former best sounding Strat I have. Same pickups that I had in it, Rose Maraposas so, either the paint, the Callaham bridge or getting rid of the gold hardware. You might notice the tuners are still gold. Thinking about a Warmouth neck at some point, that will get chrome.
Sonicly, it has taken 1st place away from the Peavy Predator, the former best sounding Strat I have. Same pickups that I had in it, Rose Maraposas so, either the paint, the Callaham bridge or getting rid of the gold hardware. You might notice the tuners are still gold. Thinking about a Warmouth neck at some point, that will get chrome.