And if I did?
To ease your mind, that's a mid 70s Electra Corsair bolt-on body with a custom Moses composite neck.
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SPRAY PAINTED BASSES, let's see 'em
- Thread starter GlennW
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To ease your mind, that's a mid 70s Electra Corsair bolt-on body with a custom Moses composite neck.
Here's my Rickenfaker 330 style bass...it's a solidbody with a fake cat's eye F hole...warmouth paddle neck. I'd like to re-do it by sanding, routing out the body with chambers and adding a tiger stripe maple cap. My first attempt at painting/finishing a bass and I used Reranch nitro rattle cans.
Here's my attempt at a blue and white burst using Halfords (car spray paints). Bass was originally black (yuk)
For my project bass, I wanted to convert the four-on-top tuner arrangement to a 3+1, because I liked the way it looked. So I sawed off the top, and punched a hole through the bottom of the headstock. Then I painted it with gloss black Valspar lacquer (from Lowes) with the edges taped off with Duck brand masking tape.
Following that, I had the bright idea to put my signature on the front using enamel. BAD IDEA. It ate all the way down to the bottom of the coat. I had to sand it all the way back down. Live and learn, but frustrating. Bollox:
After the re-finish
, and curing, I sprayed it front and back with Valspar clear lacquer. I also sig'd the back, out of vanity. (Hey, it's my bass). The sig is black sharpie. The sharpie spread a bit under the lacquer, but I liked the effect. There was a demarcation line on the back of the neck where I had taped it off, but I sanded it in.
Those Hipshot machines are great, BTW. Here it is, all done.
I'm pretty pleased with the result, and I like the new look of the bass with the cloverleafs. It ended up exacly the way I wanted.
Following that, I had the bright idea to put my signature on the front using enamel. BAD IDEA. It ate all the way down to the bottom of the coat. I had to sand it all the way back down. Live and learn, but frustrating. Bollox:
After the re-finish
, and curing, I sprayed it front and back with Valspar clear lacquer. I also sig'd the back, out of vanity. (Hey, it's my bass). The sig is black sharpie. The sharpie spread a bit under the lacquer, but I liked the effect. There was a demarcation line on the back of the neck where I had taped it off, but I sanded it in.Those Hipshot machines are great, BTW. Here it is, all done.
I'm pretty pleased with the result, and I like the new look of the bass with the cloverleafs. It ended up exacly the way I wanted.
Using enamel and lacquer is sort of like that scene in Ghostbusters. "Don't cross the streams."
If you did, you made it the most badass looking Rickenbacker I have ever seen! Nice work!!!
My 1986 Roadstar. Origanally black, but fairly damaged when I got her. So I decided to restore the body and refinish it.
Replaced the pups and electronics with EMG's and added a homemade 'mute'.
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- Feb 24, 2004
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