Building a twin neck guitar - Part 8: Painting 2

Here's a quickie.

Started to do the rest of the painting. Sorry for the poor pictures during painting here but my camera was playing up so had to use my iPad and iPhone.

First the two necks were masked off, first primer coat done, left to dry, rubbed down then second coat added.

Then I put the first coat of colour on the body. Now, technically this is a piss poor way of doing it. I'm going to do the first few coats like this. The final coats and clear lacquer will be done with the body hung up to get a complete all over even coating.

I sprayed the bottom, then did the rest while resting like in the picture below.

I then proceeded to the pub ... as you do :)

When I came back I gave the necks a light rub down and added the first colour coat. After drying I pulled the masking tape and it looks like the colours will blend fine and should look seamless. I think I would have shaped the head differently if I'd known this was the route I would go down.

(The green stripe on the 6 string head-stock is the masking tape I was using. Frogtape ... good stuff!)

I also gave the body a second coat.

This evening I got my camera working so I tried to take pics afterwards when the paint was dry  ....  but my battery died! FML!

Here's two very similar pictures showing the colour with different flash impact. When all the layers are done, the lacquer applied and the finish wet sanded, this is going to look bitchin'/schaweet!/da bomb/Über cool/OMG! ... whatever you maximum comment/expression of "wow" is :0)

Obviously the surface does look quite rough right now. After a few more rub downs and layers it will look smooth, stunning and worthy of the platitudes mentioned above :0)

I'll make sure my camera is ready to go when I do the next couple of layers.

....now, if I could just get a good wiring diagram.

At the end of this, it may sound like shit but it will look GREAT :0)