Painting a hollow body

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I was wondering if anyone ever did it. I am going to sand all the grey yech off of my homemade jambolin and seal it with something to keep it from getting all mens-room floorey again. It is a semi hollow and has a couple sound holes. I assume I'd mask off the holes and not let over spray get into the chambers. But i am concerned about getting the tape off at that edge between the painted edge of the hole and the unpainted backside. The other bummer is that the holes are kind of small and it's going to be a bitch to fish anything out of there that I put in to cover up the hole.

I'll see if I can finger out how to stick up a page on the web so you can see what I'm talking about.
 
mens-room floorey?

What the hell are you doing with that guitar? Using it to prop yourself up while you take a leak? Using it as a table to spread your porno mags on?

Why bother? It'll just get that way again.
 
The best way to stop over spray from entering the f holes is to put pieces of sponge inside to block them off. These are easily removed when you have finished spraying, cutting an buffing.
 
mens room floorey in the figurative sense

If you ever gigged with an unfinished guitar, consider how many times you have ever washed your hands after pissing at a beer joint.

That grey stuff is nicotene, urine overspray and dick skin flakes. Anything good like alcohol evaporates leaving peter tracks.

I still want it to be honestly shitty looking. I was wondering if someone could recomend a spray bomb that will serve as more of a non-shiny protectant.
 
cephus said:
I still want it to be honestly shitty looking. I was wondering if someone could recomend a spray bomb that will serve as more of a non-shiny protectant.
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Sanding sealer and de nib with wire wool if your not after a pretty looking finish. Other options for quick and easy would be tru oil, danish oil, Shallac. You can dull them with wire wool, Have a go on scrap and see what you like the look of.
 
Note to self

When meeting Cephus, don't shake hands.
 
I stuff the cavities in my guitars with crumpled up newspaper. It can be a bit of a pain to remove, but it does a very good job. If you want a minimal finish which will still protect the guitar, do a fairly normal clear finish (Stew Mac's waterbourne, or LMI's KTM-9 are both good), and then instead of polishing them, wet sand with 320, and stop. It will feel a lot like the bare wood, and will be well protected.

And hey, didn't I tell you to finish that thing in the first place?




Oh, and I never play without first washing my hands.



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If I get my hands wet before I play my callouses just shred off. I don't chake hands with people in the bar anyway. Who does that? I do taters or wonder twin powers activate, but there ain't nobody's flesh I want to press in a bar.

I think that it was already men's-roomey when you told me that. I originally assembed it many years ago. The first iteration was 2 layers of 3/4" plywood and about 3/4" bigger all the way around it. I then added another 3/8" layer to it when I re-did it.

I ended up putting some homer fornsby's on the back layer and some auto pinstripe tape around it so it would look more like a banjo, but it just ended up making me look like I was trying too hard and it still looked like shit. I wanted it to look more fat albert junkyard band or the kid's banjo in deliverance that's all tied together and shit-stained.
 
Lol cephus, you must play in rougher bars than I do! Seriously, I have to wonder why you want your guitar to look like it has already survived a trip to hell and back? You doing a novelty set or something?
 
Just piss on it a few times to give it an even color and then shit on it for the sake of shitting on it. THEN use a sanding sealer.
 
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