Now as some of you may or may not know..I am now the proud owner of Spykes Epiphone special...


After receiving the box and hastily cutting my way thru 127 layers of packing tape,styrofoam and fragile stickers..I finally had the geet I had been gassing for 1 and half years...Now as most of you have seen, Spyke attempted a refinish on this guitar with a Wylde bullseye design.Now hats of too Spykey but it was an ambitious project and not having access to the proper equipment and admittedly skiemping on prepwork, left the final project wanting abit..(no offence spyke! :-[ )

So after stripping(carefully!) I gave the body a quick sand to even out the surface abit...



A few coats of MS filler primer to even out the surface for a super smooth finish and about 7 hours of sanding and flating with 800 grit water paper...



After getting a perfect surface I sprayed a coat of medium silver as a base coat...



I then taped out my hotrod flame design with 3mm fine line tape..



And then spent about 4 hours airbrushing a skull stencil into the flame area..


I then sprayed a candy green over the silver base and skull stencil to give a ghost effect..


And then everything turned to shit.....After taping off and spraying the black base coat I went outside to have a smoke and when I returned the entire thing had bubbled...I cant say wether it was the temperature differential or an incorrect mix of thinners or maybe a reaction with the glue in the tape but everything was ruined...i really almost cried...24 hours of solid work gone....

Only thing I could do was repeat steps 1 thru 22 and start from the beginning..Sand everything off,primer sanding,primer, sanding...

I eventually settled on something a little easier and with less chance of another f#*& up...

Went for a black basecoat and airbrushed a single skull on the front of the body..


4 layers of clearcoat and voila!!




I still have to restring but I have to say that I am extremely happy with the results...The only problem I now have is as you can see by the last photo it is going to be very difficult keeping it clean...high gloss finishes always show of finger prints and handmarks ...especially on black!

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this guitar keeps getting smaller and smaller! ? nice refinish lawrence 8)

Looks dark and evil ? but a nice evil :-[
Spyke still has the better table cloth for pictures ?

HA!HA!HA!A!

So, this special seems to be the crash test dummy of the forum as far as finishes go. Who is it going to next? ?

NO ONE!!..Its mine..and non shall tear us asunder!!! I have been after this guitar since I first played it almost 18 months ago... ?...finally its mine ..mine you understand alll mine..mwuahahhahhahhaha!! ?

Very nice! Enjoy it!

A single solitary tear rolled down my face... It was like walking in on your mate jumping your ex-girlfriend's bones. eish...

But good on you my bud, it looks great. The balls-up with the flame job is a crying shame. I can understand you wanting to go for something simpler and were in a fair rush to get it over and done with but I still think the flame job would rock... man 'o man.

Hats off to you Sire...

I'll try it again on another build...I know it will work...but ya...I think the plain hi gloss finish suits this guitar better...

Got another one you wanna unload..? ?
hehehehehe

Just moved a Cort M200...

But take a look at that Squier Tele that's up for grabs in the Classifieds - I'm Jonesing...

Just doing a little research on Epiphone Guitars and while using the Serial Number calculator thought I'd enter in this one's Serial. It gave me the following:

Guitar Info
Your guitar was made at the
Saein Plant, Korea
September 1998
Production Number: 0014


Saein Musical Instrument Co. Ltd
The Saein Musical Instrument Co. Ltd. is located in the Namdong Industrial Complex in Incheon, Korea. Saein was established in July 1st 1991 and has a monthly capacity of 4,500pcs. In Oct 1st 1992, Saien Began manufacturing guitars for Epiphone, who they now consider to be their main business. They also started producing their own line of guitars called Shine in 1997. In February, 2001, a new factory was opened in Gaomi City, China. This factory boasts a monthly capacity of 10,000pcs. Saein was presented the ‘The Best Quality Award of the Year’ by Gibson Epiphone USA in 1998 and 1999.

Check it out here: Epiphone dater

So look after it bud, seems it was the pick of the litter. ?

Told you it was special!!! ?

Sellers remorse...

I lol'd at this thread ?

Could you maybe rehost the images so that we can see?

I'm a bit late to thsi thread. ?

Me too. Would love to see ?

No Prob....had a little hiccup with my hosting files...

Fixored!!