I picked up an inexpensive Strat knock off of craigslist the other day. $30 guitar, body, pickups, pretty much everything to make a playable guitar. I figured for $30 bucks I wouldn't go to wrong. It's a pretty decent little guitar, don't know if the pickups work or not I'll need to rewire the whole thing any way.
Anyway, I picked up the guitar and the guy had started sanding on it apparently he was going to refinish it as well. So this is what I started with
I decided to start on the back to determine the best way to remove the paint. I took my RoS with some 40 Grit and spent probably 30 - 45 mins sanding on it to the get the paint off. I knew I could do better so for the front I bought out the big guns, my 4 inch belt sander. I wish I would have done that the first time. It took all of about 8 mins to pull off the paint from the front of the guitar and I ended up with this.
I spent some time sanding the rest of the body at 60 grit to get the remaining paint off did some minor reshaping on the body to my liking and sanded up to 220 and attached it to a stick.
Then I started priming her.
This is the first go round of primer. I am going to sand this back just a little bit and fix some spots I over sanded and reshoot it with the white primer, then probably sand it back again at 220 I'm debating on if I should fill the grain or if I want the grain to peak through a little bit. I haven't totally decided. I usually like to let a little grain come through.
I'm going to use Kylon Indoor/Outdoor Spray Paint #53543 Celery Color to get sort of a sea foamy green color to it. I'm going retro with this one, I'm playing in a 50's Dinner Theater in March and figured I would have something that you might have seen in the 50's although not totally accurate to the actual Fender Guitar but close enough for my liking. Once it's colored then I'll shoot it with some clear and sand and polish it and hopefully it comes out looking good and I don't totally botch it.
Anyway, I picked up the guitar and the guy had started sanding on it apparently he was going to refinish it as well. So this is what I started with
I decided to start on the back to determine the best way to remove the paint. I took my RoS with some 40 Grit and spent probably 30 - 45 mins sanding on it to the get the paint off. I knew I could do better so for the front I bought out the big guns, my 4 inch belt sander. I wish I would have done that the first time. It took all of about 8 mins to pull off the paint from the front of the guitar and I ended up with this.
I spent some time sanding the rest of the body at 60 grit to get the remaining paint off did some minor reshaping on the body to my liking and sanded up to 220 and attached it to a stick.
Then I started priming her.
This is the first go round of primer. I am going to sand this back just a little bit and fix some spots I over sanded and reshoot it with the white primer, then probably sand it back again at 220 I'm debating on if I should fill the grain or if I want the grain to peak through a little bit. I haven't totally decided. I usually like to let a little grain come through.
I'm going to use Kylon Indoor/Outdoor Spray Paint #53543 Celery Color to get sort of a sea foamy green color to it. I'm going retro with this one, I'm playing in a 50's Dinner Theater in March and figured I would have something that you might have seen in the 50's although not totally accurate to the actual Fender Guitar but close enough for my liking. Once it's colored then I'll shoot it with some clear and sand and polish it and hopefully it comes out looking good and I don't totally botch it.
