Time to ACCESSORIZE

[deleted] · 2010-10-09T11:08:58+00:00

So, I'm chatting with my kids ("students") on the endlessly entertaining topic (for them) about my guitars (well it's not so much entertaining for them as much as they like to ask me the same question over and over again, mostly in an attempt to annoy me or gain some all important cred from their peeps). So I indulge them yet again and explain to them my other guitar is not broken, I bought a new one so I wouldn't have to carry my old one to work everyday, and now I can have a guitar at home and one at work (and then it eventually dawns on some of them that I don't actually live at the school). Then one of them in a fit of creativity shouts "and you have a pink guitar"(a girl of course). And then it struck me, I have two brown guitars, how boring is that. And we proceeded to think of all the nice things I could paint on my guitar and all the different colours we like. So a question to al the modifiers of guitars: how sound is it to paint your (acoustic)guitar (the one that you're obviously not too attatched to and don't mind personalising). I wonder what paint is thin enough not to alter the thickness of the sound board too much, but is durable. I guess some kind of polyester-resin paint will be too much? Manny had a place he could slide pictures in on his guitar, but that's probably not practical on an acoustic. I suppose I could go have transfers made of designs I like? Where do you guys stand on this?

Atmarama

I didn't mean you should strip the acoustic guitars - I stripped an old strat that had already been repainted badly ? I am much more cautious about acoustic guitars, but the idea of sanding em down does seem fun... My trusted guitar tech has strongly advised me not to sand em down(acoustics) though, because to finish professionally again is well nigh impossible. Also the sound will never be the same again........ That being said, no harm in getting stuck into an old "beater" that you're not too attached to - hey, maybe sanding down and stuff will even improve/open up (esoteric hope) the sound ?

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