My 8 String In Progress!

[Desecrated]

Make the sides and the back the same color, or black.

 

[bulb]

i dunno about a black body, i honestly will either do blue body or natural, ill wait until Jesse posts some pictures of the body and the neck and gives me his reccomendation cuz this far he has done everything perfectly for me!!

 

[Desecrated]

what about dying the back the same color as the fretboard ?

 

[noodles]

I think he's talking about the back/sides of the body, not the top.

He knows, he just typed it wrong.

I also think natural color on everything else is the way to go. Let all that layered wood show through.

 

[OzzyC]

Hey guys got some new pics of the progress.
The first pic is the guitar painted in the color i want it, except i wanted it to have an even more layered and deep look to it so what jesse is doing is painting the guitar and then sanding it down so the color remains in the grain so when he paints over it, you have layers!

and this is after it was sanded down the first time

and this is the back

the body i think will look nice in natural so we will keep it that way and if it doesnt then we will probably do a deeper or darker blue, but i have a feeling that the natural maple will look real nice!

i think it would look best as it is in the second pic....its pretty unique and just plain awesome

 

[Desecrated]

To much contrast between the back and the front, that super nice wood in fron tand just that plain wood at the back, i think a blue paint would look the past, maybe a little transparent blue so that you see a little grain,

 

[Seven]

i think it would look best as it is in the second pic....its pretty unique and just plain awesome

+1, It's very nice in the second picture.

 

[Mastodon]

Are you guys serious?

The second pic makes it look as if the guitar is not completed in my opinion.

 

[Pauly]

Hmmm, I would keep it natural, it provides a nice contrast in colour to the blue quilt. Saying that though, I would maybe stain the wood slightly darker, but that's just me. It'd match the fretboard a little closer in that way, so you'd have a sorta 2-tone colour scheme.

A trans-black finish could be cool too. (Well, maybe...)

what about dying the back the same color as the fretboard ?

Ah, you beat me to it.

 

[Naren]

Are you guys serious?

The second pic makes it look as if the guitar is not completed in my opinion.

I think it looks a LOT better in the first picture than in the second. The second pic looks like a slab of wood in a garage. Looks like it needs to be sanded and painted.

 

[bulb]

haha as cool as the second pic is, i DEFINITELY prefer the look it has now, that was the color i had in my head all along, and im honestly amazed that jesse was able to get it exactly right!

 

[metalfiend666]

That looks amazing! I'm very envious of you now I think that body needs to stay a natural finish so it doesn't detract from the beauty of the top.

 

[Ryan]

I think that layered blue stained top is pure, unadultorated, hardcore sex.

 

[Pauly]

what about dying the back the same color as the fretboard ?

I concur a 2nd time!

 

[skinhead]

wow man, that finish its really really good.
i like that PRS of Paul Allender of Cradle of filth.
its this one.

 

[All_¥our_Bass]

That fretboard is absolutley gorgeous!!

 

[metalfiend666]

Skinhead, as cool as that guitar looks WTF has it got to do with Bulb's 8 string? BTW that PRS sounds like shit for metal, to the extent that their producer wouldn't let Paul record with it. Straight from James McIlroy.

 

[skinhead]

Really elegant, i like the 2 tone wood.
Its good the hipshot bridge?

 

[bulb]

thanks, i like hipshot style bridges and so i think it will be good, i will take that over a gibson style one anyday (prefer the palm muted feel)

 

[ScareRaven]

The guitar is, indeed, drool-worthy! I love looking at guitars with natural finishes.