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Thread: Jem style body painted.
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30th July 2010, 08:15 PM #1Member
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Jem style body painted.
Just a follow on from the headstock etc.....the body, done tonight, it's not perfect but then this is my first attempt at doing this kind of thing.
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30th July 2010, 08:39 PM #2GOLD MEMBER
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Awesome Ghost. Looks really good mate. On the RG im posting about, I was tempted to do a jem..I wasnt confident on the handle but..Ill try one soon and ill have a go at swirling it!
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31st July 2010, 12:20 AM #3Member
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Sounds good, just do some testing on pieces of scrap first before you swirl a body, first three test runs I had were aweful. Whats worked best so far is, water temp between 20 and 25 degrees, amount of each color paint, about half a tea spoon....a little goes a long long way.
To do this body I used a 55 litre plastic bin, which in actual fact held 70 litres, filled about 10cm from the top. I added to that 16 table spoons of Borax....mixed it really well for about 2 minutes, left it sitting for just 5 minutes then added my paints and dipped the body.
Thats a change from letting it sit for half an hour before dipping and also the Borax amount was less this time and the result was better. That size bin was only just wide enough and tall enough, go bigger if you can.
Hope that helps you if you decide to give it a swirl...!!!!
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31st July 2010, 06:00 PM #4Senior Member
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Very nice mate looks like it will be a good match for the headstock.
Are you going to spray some clear over the top ?
Cheers
Dave
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