I need help with painting a guitar.

[phrygian12]

So I'll be ordering a Warmoth strat body pretty soon.

I've been dying for a modern strat with a Caparison's Scarab finish.

The body I'll be getting will be Alder. I've never painted a guitar before and was wondering how would I go about trying to get that sort of finish? I have some junk wood that I will be practicing on.

I'm assuming they used a sponge dipped in black and lightly pat down around the body. Anyone who has a Caparison with that finish and could provide close up pictures of the guitar in various lighting would be greatly appreciated.

 

[moikey]

It definitely looks layered. Best bet is to practise on some cheap ass wood until you get the right effect.

I'd approach it like :

Green base coat (let dry) > green coat (dab with sponge) > spray black in areas (dab with sponge) > overlay with green (dab with sponge)

 

[bostjan]

I know nothing about that particular finish. So why am I here? I wanted to warn you that staining will look quite different on junk wood than it will on good wood. It will still give you some idea, though. I think starting a project and expecting it to look a certain way in the end is too ambitious for a beginner. Why not experiment and simply hope for something that looks unique and cool? That's almost certain to work out, if you are patient enough.

 

[Tom Drinkwater]

It looks like "faux painting". There are probably a million tutorials on that on YouTube. That looks really cool. Make sure you pic a paint that can be clear coated if you plan on doing a clear over it.

 

[phrygian12]

I know nothing about that particular finish. So why am I here? I wanted to warn you that staining will look quite different on junk wood than it will on good wood. It will still give you some idea, though. I think starting a project and expecting it to look a certain way in the end is too ambitious for a beginner. Why not experiment and simply hope for something that looks unique and cool? That's almost certain to work out, if you are patient enough.

I have some scraps of Adler from a body I made. I'm gonna use those as testing to try and get a similar effect.
though you're absolutely right that this may be too much for a newbie. I just wanted to give it a shot. If it doesn't work out then I'll just try something simple.

It looks like "faux painting". There are probably a million tutorials on that on YouTube. That looks really cool. Make sure you pic a paint that can be clear coated if you plan on doing a clear over it.

Awesome sauce! I do want it to be really glossy so what sort of paint would I be looking at? I'm sure everyone is probably face palming at my questions.

proach it like :
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Green base coat (let dry) > green coat (dab with sponge) > spray black in areas (dab with sponge) > overlay with green (dab with sponge)[/QUOTE]

That's pretty much what I was thinking. It's an intresting finish. I have some scraps of Alder wood from a project that haven't finished yet.

Should I use a primer? Or jusr jump into it with the color and do several coats like you suggested?

 

[Killemall1983]

That finish is a technique and paint called marbilizer.
You spray your basecaot then the marbilizer paint. Then you take a plastic bag and dab it and it leaves the patter like that. You can do a lot of different kind of patterns and effects with it. Its the same way jackson does their eerie dess swirl.