Glam Glitter & Glossy - Help with paint please.

[James Willie]

I paint and stain cabinets, but
Want to paint my own Bass Guitar.
Unsure what type of paint.
What type of clear coat.
Where to buy?
Thanks James

Any suggestion appreciated.
Final product is glam, glitter, and glossy.
Similar to examples below:

 

[deff]

The flake on those looks too large to be sprayed without either specialized equipment or shaked on. It can be done, but I've seen very few finishers especially flake finishers on this site. If it is your first paint job, you will need to be careful, slow and patient. One of the best places to start is Roth Metal Flake. Collections

They have info and most everything you need for a flake job. There are plenty of people over at the Reranch site that are finishers who have done flake that can help you. I can post one of mine later.

 

[James Willie]

The flake on those looks too large to be sprayed without either specialized equipment or shaked on. It can be done, but I've seen very few finishers especially flake finishers on this site. If it is your first paint job, you will need to be careful, slow and patient. One of the best places to start is Roth Metal Flake. Collections

They have info and most everything you need for a flake job. There are plenty of people over at the Reranch site that are finishers who have done flake that can help you. I can post one of mine later.

The Roth Acadamy Video was good,
I have a few old bass bodies.
Thoughts were to paint them for practice.
Then move on to final project.

 

[deff]

The Roth Acadamy Video was good,
I have a few old bass bodies.
Thoughts were to paint them for practice.
Then move on to final project.

As a much more simple option Krylon sells an excellent flake/glitter paint called glitter blast. You can lay down a base coat, then paint with the GB and then use Krylon Fusion as a clear coat. The flake size isn't bad. The Ed Roth site sells tons of products for any flake job. They have a bunch of colors and candy colors (transparent overlay) as well. Both of these are good options. I've done maybe 4-5 glitter jobs. The hardest by far was the large flake job. The biggest concern is uniformity of flake coverage and taking your time on clear coats in a dry environment trying not to get moisture trapped between successive coats. This is the neck on a flying V I did with one of the Krylon Glitter Blast paints. The flake is reasonably sized.

 

[BurningSkies]

Some of the real 'big flake' metalflake options are not done by spraying but by applying layers of 'glitter' to the instrument then clear-coating it until smooth.

 

[deff]

Some of the real 'big flake' metalflake options are not done by spraying but by applying layers of 'glitter' to the instrument then clear-coating it until smooth.

The examples he posted were likely all examples of this. Large flake is sifted or shook onto the surface of a tacky layer of paint and then either clear coated or there is an additional color coat applied unless the flake is already the desired color. Typically the instrument is set in a box and swiveled to cover as flake is sifted from a screen.

 

[James Willie]

Thank for these tips.
1. The Roth metal flake fantastic website. Want one of those guns.
2. The GB glitter based spray can is probably my first step.
3. Technique: Get the paint tacky, then add the glitter, gloss over until smooth.

The goal is black glitter.

Found this video.