Empryrean
angery gear acquirer
Makin me want an sg bro xD
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Pretty sure this is it: HR010 HOT ROD BLACK
As I thought, the paint seemed to create some reaction with parts of the satin black. No colour seeped through, it just seemed to cause some hazing or something. However, the paint lines are nice and sharp, which is good.
So, that leaves me with three options. Only two of which I think are really viable:
1) Leave the gold a few days and mask the outer gold stripes, putting another coat of black down on the body wings. However, that risks lifting the gold.
2) Hitting the entire guitar with 0000 steel wool and obtaining a very matte finish.
QUESTION - Has anyone done this on a dark finish? Will the scratches be visible if you scour the surface long enough? What would you recommend?
3) Giving the guitar the aged look, sanding through parts to the undercoat and old gold finish etc, highlighting areas like the forearm contact surface and areas normally hit by the pick and fingers... I figure if option 2 doesn't look right, I can still use option 3. Which may also remove the slightly raised paint line you always get when you're not sanding the edges down.
What do you think? Which would you choose?