Glorious Technicolor (Well, a greeny blue actually!)

The coloured laquers arrived today and we started spraying the bodies of the guitars. The guitars were screwed to small planks of wood through the screw holes where the neck would be attached and hung from beams in Neil's garage. We placed a fan heater in the garage to warm the air to assist the drying of the lacquer.

The LP was given 5 coats in total - leaving it a rather nice turquiose colour. The first coat hardly made any difference to the colour of the wood at all, but subsequent coats left the guitar first green, and then progressively blue with each coat.

The pictures below show the guitar after no coats, two coats and four coats.












We sprayed the Rick body too, but this is a bigger job as the whole body has to be sprayed, not just the top. Also the lacquer did not seem to take as well to the wood. So far it has had three coats and still looks clearly unfinished. After the first couple of coats on the LP, the colour started going on much quicker, so hopefully after another few coats we can bring the Rick body up to the level of the LP body.


The photo of the Rick kit is a bit misleading - the guitar does look a bit more blue (well, green really at this stage) in real life - but it's still going to take a few more coats to bring it up to the standard of the LP finish.