MIM Strat Reboot - Part #1. - bye bye bye gloopy glitter. The end of an error
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- I attempted a glitter job on my MIM Strat half a decade ago, i've never been very happy with the results despite it looking good from across the room. I have a bunch of strat parts to upgrade it so I thought this would be a good opportunity to reboot the whole dang thing.
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I've been building guitars for 35 years and have never seen a finish come off so easily! The best part was when you finally went and got the clamp.
Shadowhand I was thinking the same thing
“The body is free from all attachments” is some serious Zen shizzle, my friend.
That thing looked like a Goodwill bowling ball.
Great job on the V, but seeing a flying V with those 2 single coils makes me wanna puke. Great content men!
I'm currently turning a left hand lp copy into a right hander. So far I've stripped the electrics, cut out a 'matching' horn. I have also blocked off the bridge holes for a bigsby and the tone and volume pots as I am bypassing them altogether. I had just started hand sanding the black to take it back to wood and realised what a ball ache it was going to be, so I stopped for a coffee to steel myself. That's when I saw you'd posted a new one and gave it a view. I am really happy that I did, once the shops go back to normal I'm hiring a heat gun.
Cheers pal, 😎🎙🎸✅
If you're planning on going experimental, I could imagine that looking great with even more/deeper gashes filled with a mixture of resin and copper-colored paint, then a simple oil rub clear finish and some kind of coppery or synthetic shell pickguard to match the copper colored bands and veins.
What? No BLUE veins?
@@GCKelloch Menstrual?
I did my bass decades ago, stripped, sanded, with "Black Oak" wood stain and about three coats of button polish, which dries in minutes! Lasted extremely well and the wear from years of playing looks really nice :)
Candy Apple Red the way Fender does it, not mushing glitter on it, maybe a fun experiment.
I added a master tone/ neck blend on both my strats..(Emerson/ 920D)... a nice, usable addition
Good tip that us painters live by is: “you’re only as good as your prep” Someday I would love to paint a guitar for you! Just finished a custom purple sparkle strat with color shifting sparkle, and I’m painting a green vintage offset today.
yeah my prep game really sucks, lol. Send me a link to your stuff 60cyclehumcast@gmail.com ill check it out.
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Wow that sounded beautiful
I just love the way you mod your guitars with no mercy lol
Nice... looking forward to the end product
Paint it white, Ryan! Some Billy guy, from a band named Squished Mellon or something, said white paint makes your guitar sound better... 😂 I use my special Blanco pen eraser from Pelican, to give it a Matt texture. Extra flaky!
I love those pickups.
The ratio tuners are fantastic and well worth the money.
You should do a jawbreaker finish where you do a ton of colors and then sand it back unevenly so they all show through, and clear pickguard
that would be fun.
"... I'm not going to throw you away."
*Epi SL - "kill me..."
That looks good for a home DIY job Ry. " Hey can we send you some pick ups? " Like you're gonna say " No ". "Send em on man! Send me every thing you have." I have an old Squire Strat that I cut a chunk out of behind the bridge. Just like a sort of semicircle.It no longer needs a stand now as its stands up on its own against the wall. Never falls over. It has a cut out like the old fender swingers. Its battered to bits! Stripped of paint & needs putting back together Gouged to hell! Its got battlescars. Looks cool as hell though. Might stain it with a see through red? Match the headstock too. Humbucker in the bridge. Kill switch. Good stuff.
Thank you for keeping us company during the lockdown! Greetings from Greece!
If I might make a suggestion, as soon as I saw the bare body I thought of copper leafing all indentations and cavities and then completing things with a clear pickguard !
That was therapeutic 😌
Go with a “woodie” inspired guitar. Surf/sea foam color two toned with white, and some nice oiled/varnished wood in between. You could even leave the edges would colored too.
Looks great from 20 feet!
A thin coat of pastel yellow over the bare wood with either a black or mint pickguard. As it "relics" it'll look pretty nice, I'd think.
I like it as it is. But, it's your guitar and you shall do as you wish!
Seeing how the surface of the body is all chipped and gouged, you could burn etch some designs into the body and then give it a natural finish.
Love that T shirt. I like my Bullet Mustang too. Perfect mod platform as you know man. Aint done nothing to mine yet though. Maybe now while on lockdown? Perfect time to get things done. I'm a lazy man though Ry! Lol. You should have put the strings back on if they were good lad?
Awesome man! Funnily enough, I got myself a heat gun and a squier strat calling for a strip/refin job... Cheers :)
maybe a really thin coat of a solid colour, something that'll wear through fairly quickly as you play it that ages along with the videos? Could help show it's previous life as more of the wear appears
This will be fun to watch as you go along. I have my own Strat project going, mine is gonna be a Surfcaster with a hand paint job and graphics mix.
For yours I suggest a metallic (no glitter) surf green with a racing stripe.
Only suggestion I'd make is having a pink guitar.
exactly what I thought as well
Coat of Light light blue, then a coat of copper over the top then sand it back in a bunch of places. The old blue didn't work with the copper but something lighter would.
Awesome. I picked up a '00 MIM strat a week ago. Before we were all confined to our homes. It was already stripped, but the guy who did it used a bit too much heat on the back, and a 1" round section of the veneer pulled away. I have to repair that first. Not sure exactly what I'm going to do with it... looking forward to seeing what you do.
Sand it more, give it a blowtorch burnt edge sunburst then a Natural Tung Oil finish. Boom. No toxins or VOC's. The Organicaster!
Check out Specialist Paint / Kustomcanz, they do metal flake aerosols that work really well, if you still want a glitter finish.
You should try hydro dipping it. I’d suggest dipping it in white with hints of red, orange, blue, yellow, and green to make it look like a marble.
ah man. I wanna know how that xtra hot rail sounded! I've been enamored with xtra pickups since seeing the Hamer Phantom many moons ago.
Those Nordstrand pickups sound like humbuckers; maybe that's the secret formula on the inside. As for a color idea, have you ever heard of Montana Cans? They're the spraypaint choice of graffiti artists. Go hit their website and look at the Effect Sprays. They have things like Luminescent, UV Reflective, and Holographic Flake to spice up a nitro paint job.
If you're up for suggestions, try an iridescent color shift like the nebula silver sky!
Doesn't have to be those exact colors but something similar?
Dude you should try doing a pattern candy paint. Shoot it with a silver Sparkle color, let that dry and then cover it in vinyls. Spray another translucent color over the top of the vinyls, then remove vinyls and spray again. There will be ghosts images in the paint.
Spray it gold and then a couple of thin coats of clear red to make it candy apple red
Edit: you could maybe contour the heel to make it kinda like the ultra strats
That V is so fucking dope.
With those pickups I'd probably make a custom offset Fender build.
clear finish over the damaged wood
I think a psychedelic doodle with paint pens or nail polish would look great. Something like the Monterey Strat, Claptons SG, or the dragon telecaster.
I used glow in the dark mica or micro glitter mixed in clear duracolor auto paint spayed with an air compressor and car paint sprayer and it turned out sweet. Probably the only glow in the dark offset telecaster with humbucker and p90 in the world. Message me for the recipe if that's something you want to try.
Canary Yellow with black Shelby Style stripes.
hope you made a funky gold medallion out of the old finish
Transparent burst over the beat up wood (don’t sand and fix it). Never seen that done personally.
That Strat looks like a fishing lure :'D
I recently stript an 2017 MIM daphne blue dou sonic. The Fender spec description claimed a 3 piece Alder body.
Nope! It was a 5 piece . Not sure if its even Alder.
nice wood grain for MIM Strat. I expected to be 3 random pieces
i think it'd look really nice if you did some kind of sparkly finish with a thin coat of another color that would chip easily and expose little bits of the finish underneath
or y'know, maybe just good ol' red
I like the gloopy glitter. Haha
I refinished a guitar a while back for the first time and it looked fine from a distance but there were certain parts that look like shit so I refinished it with more painting experience and knowledge and now it looks amazing.im all about having a guitar you can’t experiment with
Dom Koyuki if you are painting with Nitrocellulose Go slow. If you have any drips or runs don’t try to get them out right away. Use a 3M tack cloth not a cheap one. Use micro mesh pads to do your final sand before you buff. Use Maguires 205 buffing compound or your final buff if you do it by hand it takes longer but it will look professional.
Dom Koyuki The final sand comes at the very end after all the spraying is done.2k is different and nitro lacquer that’s what I spray with. With 2K you should sand in between coats just make sure you clean your guitar thoroughly before spraying the next coat.
Dom Koyuki czcams.com/users/BradAngove check this guy’s CZcams channel out this is where I learned most of my knowledge when it comes to paint guitars
She stripped EASIER than you thought Ry!
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Raw Dog that Strat, Son!
I've always wanted a natural guitar, I think it'd look super cool if you oiled her
I have a tobacco burst stray I want to repaint. How easy you’re gold finish peeled off have me an idea. Lightly sand the guitar then repaint. Then if I want to go back to the burst I can just peel off the paint. Haha.
Send it to a pro for a Fiesta Red finish and be done with it.
Have fun with it. On a side note do you have a video of yourself playing the Airline 3P DLX behind you?
Battleship grey. Semi matte finish.
Paint it shell pink!!!!
13:00 I would have stopped around here and reassembled.
Layered like a jawbreaker and sanded back. Blue then white then pink final finish matte blush pink and relic worn stain dark wood where exposed
Do some racing stripes like you did with the mustang
you should paint a surf mural on the face
Am i the only one who kinda like the finish? (At least this sparkle Gold/Orange Finish)
That Flying V is wicked!!!!
EDIT- anyone else freak out when he drilled that screw right through the neck joint?
Aqua sparkle or orange metallic
So used to seeing part to right away been spoiled Ryan lol hurry up bud
My strats is such a mess I planned on replacing it with another pawnshop squire so I messed with the saddles and truss rod. Had no idea what I was doing and wrecked it.. Still keep it around for making experimental stuff
you wrecked the truss? are you sure it cant be saved?
@@60CycleHumcast it's probably fine it's so old and beat up I'd rather spend the money to start over. it's pricey fixing up guitars!
A drum sander the fits on your drill will help.
That copper underneath the glitter is beautiful shouldn’t have touched it
Char it!
What would be the best way about getting a glittery finish like the other guitar you'd shown in this video? I'm working on a custom strat-like body and I've never had a glittery guitar, so I thought I might as well try it.
Also, I have this strange wiring set-up that I'm still trying to figure out- it's only tough since I'm new to guitar building/modding and I'm worried about messing it up and having to buy new electronics. I don't mind publicly sharing the idea with anyone who wants to take a stab at helping me figure it out, but I'm also fine with just watching tutorials on more standard wiring set-ups with a 3-way switch if anyone could recommend some that are easy to follow.
@Dom Koyuki The body's been shaped and routed, the bridge is in place, and I ordered a neck to throw on it after two failed attempts at making one. Figuring out how to make a neck was difficult, since my dad's just a normal woodworker, and this would've been our first fully custom build.
I had a few different setbacks, since my old bass's volume pot broke in two pieces and I didn't have any extras around to fix it with. Then I sprained my wrist skating, so neither my bass or the guitar build have been touched in a month.
I hope yours turns out great, though! Sounds like it'd be cool to see some pictures of when it's done
Ya gotta do some nitro cellulose lacquer!
Dat TEE !
I would just sand it down by hand now and then rub it with some oil or apply a nice stain and clear cost.
That will be a fun project. Suggestion on your wiring harness: get it set up with an Armstrong Blender (SSS blends to HSH) no push pull it's a wiring mod only from a standard circuit and allows blending rather than hard on/off. Easy walk through (czcams.com/video/lWF1L7GBYfU/video.html) or find the diagram on the web. It also gives a couple of funky out of phase tones good for fuzz. It's my auto-mod on a Strat these days. Second is try a Hendrix style reverse angled bridge pickup slot pickguard, which is an easy no-solder reversible swap.
clear pickguard, oil finish. gold hardwear
dont remove any more finish
uh, i already removed it all
You don’t like blue so no blue jean, maybe a corduroy finish? You could strum fast and make smoke.
Graphtech makes tuners? Well shoooooot, I guess this worked!
And sparkle that thing again - there's no such thing as a bad sparkle job. ;-)
I've done a bunch of metal flake paint jobs. If you want to do a nice DIY flake, Google Roth Metalflake. They sell spray cans called Flake Bombs. They are by far the easiest way to get a professional quality finish without having to buy a bunch of different stuff.
ive window shopped the roth stuff alot, I will probably go that route in the future.
Those guitars look like bowling balls off the movie kingpin
What's the name of the tool you used to heat up the paint? heat gun?
Yep. It's a heat stripper or heat gun. - steve
Tung oil natural look or paint it surf green...
I think you should relic it
PowderCoat it Gold
Try a nitro finish!
If that was my guitar I'd paint a classic Fender color with ReRanch nitrocellulose.
bro you play surf rock you gotta have a surf green strat
Haha. Ok. Looks good from a far.
Burnt finish......See Crimson Guitars.
Green/Red tartan cloth pattern?
I would hydrodip it
Try a nitrocellulose finish?!
Purple mega flake metallic mit extra glitter mien herr
If you're eschewing glitter & contemplating a clear finish, why not try pyrography. It would be neat to see as an artist/designer comes up with.
That was the easiest layer of paint that you took off that guitar...
Gotta stick with gold imo
I don't know i really did like the gold.
But pretty messed up finish.