Gloss Paint + Matte Finish + Freezing temperatures = This...

[HotHead]

This is the result of my inexperience and impatience... Pretty cool result.

Long story short: I recieved a body from Warmoth about 2 months ago and decided to start painting ASAP. I originally bought gloss blue spray paint and standard white primer. All went well until I thought, "Hmm, I don't want a shiny guitar." I bought a matte finish to put over gloss paint. The day I allplied the paint, it was the ONE cold day that week. Right as the finish hit the paint, it started to crack and rise from the body. The finish seemed to rehydrated to paint. I was able to salvage everything by cutting holes in the air pockets and letting the body dry inside instead. The result is this pretty cool, cracked ice finish. However, some parts are just flat, due to sanding between coats.

I wonder if I could do this again, but better, knowing what I know now.

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Gloss Paint + Matte Finish + Freezing temperatures = This...

That actually is pretty cool. I wonder if you let it fully sure, then respray, if you could protect it? Looks almost like a Jackson style finish.

 

[devastone]

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That may be more due to the different paints more than the temperature. I knew a guy in NC that did crackle finishes by applying a base coat/color in one type of paint then putting another type of paint over that which would crack from the outgassing of the base paint.

 

[HotHead]

Re: Gloss Paint + Matte Finish + Freezing temperatures = This...

That actually is pretty cool. I wonder if you let it fully sure, then respray, if you could protect it? Looks almost like a Jackson style finish.

That just happened with the first coat. After I let that first coat dry, I was able to seal everything with a couple different passes.

 

[Aceman]

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Can we get a full pic?

 

[HotHead]

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Can we get a full pic?

This is the best pic I could get from my phone. It's kina hard to tell, but the effect flattens-out between the pickups. For some reason, the finish liked to pool there and freeze, so I had to sand that down more than the rest of the body. Also, the color isn't that vibrant in real life.

 

[HotHead]

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Here's the back. The pattern isn't as pronounced, and there's quite a bit of excess finish. The freezing temperature made it freeze at certain points and make succeeding coats run down those points.. This is the back, so I really don't care what it looks like. This guitar is an experiment on my part.

 

[dominus]

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Nothing to do with temperature. That's lacquer reacting with enamel.

 

[AlexR]

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+1

Paint incompatibility there.

Cool effect.......you're probably very lucky - mostly that results in the need the strip.

 

[treyhaislip]

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Definitely looks cool!

 

[HotHead]

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Nothing to do with temperature. That's lacquer reacting with enamel.

I think the contracting of the dissolving paint due to the freezing temperature was able to make it possible for the paint to stay on the body instead of expand and chip off.

 

[Mincer]

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Looks a little alligator-like. I don't know if it has to do with the cold vs the paint reacting to each other, but I don't think that result is remotely predictable.

 

[dominus]

Re: Gloss Paint + Matte Finish + Freezing temperatures = This...

I think the contracting of the dissolving paint due to the freezing temperature was able to make it possible for the paint to stay on the body instead of expand and chip off.

Looks a little alligator-like. I don't know if it has to do with the cold vs the paint reacting to each other, but I don't think that result is remotely predictable.

The gold paint I used here either was old or had a defective nozzle.






So I decided to go with a satin black over it. I believe that the gold was a lacquer, the black was an enamel. I think this was one of the very first guitars I had done.







I know a *little* bit about painting guitar bodies.







Colder temperatures really only affect the spraying and drying times. Hence painting and letting it dry in warmer temperatures, and heating the spray can up. (Fill a 32 oz cup halfway with the hottest tap water you can, then let the can warm up for 5 minutes.)