I'm pretty bad with anything paint related... I try to let wifey tackle those because I end up doing a terrible job, getting it everywhere and generally making a giant mess while making it look like butts. Like. I put roll-in bedliner on the inside of the tub on my Jeep and it was an amazing disaster.
I want to get a cheapo project bass to de-fret and refinish so I might give the glitter a shot just for shear goofyness of it! The white into black glitter could be kind of interesting...
Well, the nice thing about spraying glitter is you're gonna cover it with a ton of clear and just sand the hell out of it, no matter what you do. So, just go slow, and don't switch products midstream like I did. I sprayed mine outside...there's a bug or two embalmed in there. Even though I'm two classes short of a fine arts photography degree*, my wife actually has her fine arts degree that she uses regularly, and works in ad art. Having someone who's better than you at everything regarding art is really convenient, isn't it?
And yeah, the more I think of the white/black sunburst, the more I like it. I can't decide whether to have the center or the edges dark, though. I'm wondering if I should test it on a piece of scrap, or just lose my mind and refinish two guitars that no one cares about in reverse of each other and decide later.
I've stripped the frets from one bass, it was the first time I modified one. Mine was a maple fretboard lawsuit era Jazz copy, so it required a bunch of clearcoat that time, too. Roundwounds chewed that clearcoat up. I'd look for one with an ebony or rosewood fretboard if I were going to do it again.
@scabpicker that amp is badass, would be cool to play something like that. The purple glitter bass is awesome too!
Thankya, I did love it. I don't relish loading it into an 80's hatchback again, but it did sound good, even when we were running three guitars through it like idiots. If I can somehow track down my old roommate again and get my hands on it, I will.
I believe you probably know your paint, so the complement on the Squier is double sweet. I think it looks even better from the front, mostly due to the contrasting pickguard and stickers (I like stickers), and as long as you ignore that there are more wrinkles on the front (and my fecal cellphone pics eliminate them anyway
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@djciano - heck, they haven't thrown my candy hiny out yet, and my band had one funk-rap-metal band exclaim "Yeah! Old time Rock 'n Roll" (nope, still not sure if it was a compliment. They did seem enthused, but it was far from our best show) at us while we were switching equipment on stage recently. I wear a cowboy hat on stage, and I think these guys wouldn't even throw you out for wearing a fedora, or telling someone that the hat they were wearing wasn't actually a fedora.
Not that I think they'd encourage that kind of behavior or anything...I don't think of them as a bunch of perverts.
*Wow, that sounds like a euphamism for crazy, doesn't it?
I don't feel ready at all, not sure why I agreed with this thing. At least the context will be totally laid-back and carefree so no performance anxiety. No one of those people even cares about our songs or has any idea of the type of stuff we like or do. Totally fantastic premise 
