who did that patterned cloth finish

[uethanian]

a while ago someone did this thing where they took a patterned cloth and kindof...glued it to the body, and it ended up looking like paint when it was done. i want to do the same thing to a pickguard, but i dont know where to start. help?

[jordan_frerichs]

I remember the bass was a double p, vintage based shape, solid color blue finish, and the cloth material was a red-brown paisley, and i think the fb was maple, but it also could have been rosewood. I can track the thread if i scan through my previous post for a few minutes, but for now i am tired, and will try and track it down 2marrow.

[Sardine]

Fender did a couple of paisley Flower Power Teles in the 60s.

If you want to do a pickguard, you could try sandwiching a piece of paisley print fabric between two pieces of thin self-stick pickguard material, and after cutting it to shape run a bead of superglue along the edge to stop it from peeling apart. I have never done this though, so I can't say for sure if it will work.

[TheEmptyCell]

First Build: The Paisley Bass

I don't recommend using the process we did for the pickguard... the ribbon binding is a pain. Sardine's idea seems like a good one... glue the fabric to the guard and put a piece of thin, adhesive acoustic guitar pickguard over it. However, super glue will majorly discolor the fabric, so I'm not sure that's the way to go.

[kris pung]

Go to the reranch forum and look up fabric finish and you'll find tons for great guitars done w/ fabric.

[Sardine]

TheEmptyCell, I mean placing the cloth between two pieces of clear acoustic guitar pickguard. So the result would be clear-paisley-clear. The superglue would just go around the very edge after the pieces were stuck together, to stop them from peeling apart.

[uethanian]

Originally Posted by TheEmptyCell

First Build: The Paisley Bass

I don't recommend using the process we did for the pickguard... the ribbon binding is a pain. Sardine's idea seems like a good one... glue the fabric to the guard and put a piece of thin, adhesive acoustic guitar pickguard over it. However, super glue will majorly discolor the fabric, so I'm not sure that's the way to go.

that wasn't the one i meant (although that is majorly awesome). it was a bright print with a lot of red, and it looked like they put the same kind of clear coat over it that painted basses usually have. my current pickguard is decoupage, which is paper soaked in glue...i was wondering if could soak a piece of fabric in like this and do the same, without discoloring it (it didn't discolor the paper, the glue is essentially watered-down white glue).

i'm thinking what i want to do is either make my pickguard either burberry or a kind of paisley, against a black body

[kris pung]

Enter the Dragon Bass
Here's a bass I stared using a fabric finish but I ran into a few snags and stopped the project. It does however look really cool on my work bench.

[mkrtu9]

Originally Posted by kris pung

Enter the Dragon Bass
Here's a bass I stared using a fabric finish but I ran into a few snags and stopped the project. It does however look really cool on my work bench.

what snags did you run into, cause that looks pretty bad to the bone. And what is "sand and sealer"?

[sonic assassin]

this concept blows my mind.

im gasing so SUPER hard for one of these.. maybe not paisley..

[kris pung]

The snag was I got impatient w/ the Sand and sealer and tried to bury the edges w/ super glue. Sand and sealer is a thicker lacquer type material that’s used to fill the grain and seal the wood for clear finishes. If I where to do it again I'd use polyacrlic for the build up phase and poly for the top coats.

[ponticat]

Here's another source of information: http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/mat.htm