Where can I go and get paint to paint my electric guitar? I know about the reranch.com site, but it is be acting weird...
I know about the reranch.com site, but it is be acting weird lately. It ask you for a username and password when you walk to there site and click on products.
Answers: LMI.com
Luthiers Merchantile
This is a great supplier.
If you don't see what you call for , just contact them by e-mail. They are especially nice and helpful.
Another source is StewMac.com
Stewart Mac.
I used to engineer guitars. Was never a big part of my business (did mostly commercial cabinet work). But I alway used lacquer on the body and the put a bet on of the neck (masked sour the front of the neck and fretboard and used a incisive oil on that). You didn't mention if you planned to strip the outmoded finish from the guitar first. If you aren't, you have to mind about applying a finish that will get done good chemical and power-driven adhesion to the existing finish.
If you want to use lacquer, and you don't have spray equipment, you might want to rent the equipment and practice on shaving wood first. Also, if you live in a humid climate, you will involve to add retarder the the mix. This will also slow the drying time and brand name it easier to get an even, drizzly coat on the entire guitar (this is critical - if parts of it start to dry while you are still spraying, the result will be a blotchy mess. The upside is you can just linger for the coat to dry, sand it and try again.) You can also tint the lacquer.
I used to use at least ten coats of laquer, smoothing it surrounded by between coats with 600 grit composition or scotch brite pads. It's moral to take it out into bright sunlight every so recurrently and examine it for defects during this process, if the come to an end result you want is a mirror-like finish. You can also use an airbrush, like I did, to create rim coloration details and/or sunburst patterns and other special effects. None of this is as rock-hard as it sounds. Just make sure respectively coat is applied quickly and evenly and the guitar is uniformly raining, with no foggy or dryish looking patch. There's also plenty of instructional material available on the net, if you feel close to tackling it yourself. But anything you apply beside a brush will look like crap.
It's also best to suspend it up so you can spray both sides without have to handle it.
McFadden's is a well-mannered place to purchase lacquer, retarder, and tints. Good luck