Painted my Custom Shop '65 RI

[Molly]

Bought a Custom Shop '65 that'd been refinished a few times. Was originally Lake Placid Blue but was given a custom finish (first pic) then a diamond white job. Anyway, I didn't like the diamond white as it was too vivid and the paint had a plastic feel to it. With the aid of the chaps on here I sourced some nitro aerosols in surf green and this is how it's gone. I'm reassembling it at the moment but am out of strings.

[Pastasauce]

Much better!

[AiRdAd]

Holy crap. that looks great

[Miza]

Lovely, fantastic colour choice!

So that first pic of the Clapton Strat, was that what it looked like before?

[Miza]

^^ C.l.a.p.t.o.n

[Cheeky buggers ]

[Slowy]

I thought the first photo was the finished product. Interesting to see the 'Relic' stamp. Was that visible through the paint before you stripped it?

[Molly]

Cheers.

Yes. That's how it looked before. Not to my taste to be honest (not that that matters as it was white when I got it).

I masked off any RELIC stamps or other CS markings inc. the 65NOS in the neck pickup hole. Not all were visible until I stripped it. In fact, I masked-off all cavities save for the jack plug one. Not for any arty 'let it breath' reason. Just thought it'd be easier to refinish if I stuffed-up the job. Learned a lot along the way. I'd do a better job if I was to do it again. Hardest part was ensuring I had a very thin finish without sanding through to the primer. Also, aerosols seem to produce a lot of orange peel that's a bugger to flatten-off.

Removing the original finish even revealed where someone had penciled LPB in the control cavity.

[Bg]

Good finish, but I'd rather have the crash paint job!

[AiRdAd]

Lucky I've still got your address. I can send my stuff down to you to paint!

[Starfire]

Looks like a nice job, and very smooth considering what you say about the aerosols producing orange peel. I like the white, but I think I can see what you mean about it being too vivid and plastic-y from the picture. Olympic white would've been a better choice there.

[sty]

looks amazing.

If you make it to the CHCH gearfest I'll be really interested in talking to you as I have another project guitar coming up in the future that I'd like to spray this time rather than Truoil.

[Molly]

Looks like a nice job, and very smooth considering what you say about the aerosols producing orange peel. I like the white, but I think I can see what you mean about it being too vivid and plastic-y from the picture. Olympic white would've been a better choice there.

Thought about Olympic white actually. Had a list of genuine '65 colours to choose from. Even shell pink was a contender.

Sure. I'll make it this time. Learned what to do from this video and others in the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-0eexpmRh8

[Conway]

Shame to cover over that really nice grain. A translucent finish would've been nice.

[Molly]

Shame to cover over that really nice grain. A translucent finish would've been nice.

Someone else said that but I've three translucent Strats and I thought it'd take a lot more skill than I have to make it look half as good as the others do.

Just tagged on a couple of finished pics to the original post.

[Bg]

Damn the wood grain, that crash paint job looked pretty near perfect. Not that I like mark turner that much! Hohoho!