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Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:34 pm
by willow13
Decided to refinish a guitar I made years ago. Have been wanting a sparkle guitar for 3 decades so though bugger it now is the time. Apart from doing a floyded Tele what is more offensive than a floyded Sparkle Les Paul to the masses :?: ... make it a Purple sparkle :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

if you don't like this then honestly you need to buy a mirror and take a good long look at yourself and then make the change :moresarc:

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Haven't wired it up yet because I pulled on the wires to the toggle switch to hard so now have to take the neck pickup out again to get to it (and I can't be bothered today :rofl: ). It has a dimarzio bluesbucker in the neck and some kind of GFS pickup in the bridge (rated about 14k so we'll see what it sounds like)..have had these pickups for at least a year and never got around to putting them into anything so very interested to hear them (esp the Dimarzio)

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 4:37 pm
by Lyle
That's horrific... I love it.

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:25 pm
by hamo
I hate myself for loving this

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sat Mar 14, 2020 7:57 pm
by Rog
At last - a man with taste!

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:52 am
by Slowy
It will go well with your frilly shirt, bell bottoms, platform shoes and eye liner.

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 8:58 am
by willow13
Slowy wrote:It will go well with your frilly shirt, bell bottoms, platform shoes and eye liner.
close ... more like my Lennon & McCartney shirt (black/paisley no frills), stretch skin tight jeans, black/red snakeskin boots and no eye line (have bags under the eyes so that will do hehe) :mrgreen:

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:12 am
by MikeC
Yeah baby, groovy!

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 9:36 am
by Lostininverness
Nice! Did you mix the sparkle lacquer your self or was it a mixed can job?? Read that sparkle paint can make a huge mess with over spray.

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:01 am
by jeremyb
Needs Silver knobs I reckon, otherwise it's awesome!!

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:02 am
by willow13
Lostininverness wrote:Nice! Did you mix the sparkle lacquer your self or was it a mixed can job?? Read that sparkle paint can make a huge mess with over spray.
no .. went to one of those $2 shops and bought a $3 tube of glitter. Sprayed a layer of black spray paint on the guitar and the sprinkled the glitter over the wet paint then shook the guitar to spread the glitter evenly(ish) .. let paint dry then clearcoat :rofl:

I have used spray can glitter paint before and yeah it is bloody messy with a lot of wastage

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 10:03 am
by willow13
jeremyb wrote:Needs Silver knobs I reckon, otherwise it's awesome!!
yes am looking into that .. or maybe black

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:57 am
by Jay
Marvellous!

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:01 pm
by AiRdAd
Yeap, that looks great! You must be really happy with the way it turned out :-)

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:39 pm
by philly
I love it.
i'd get different knobs tho…. those ones make it look a bit garish....

Re: Welcome home ROG ... and for Danny hehe

Posted: Mon Mar 16, 2020 4:29 am
by Slowy
willow13 wrote:
Lostininverness wrote:Nice! Did you mix the sparkle lacquer your self or was it a mixed can job?? Read that sparkle paint can make a huge mess with over spray.
no .. went to one of those $2 shops and bought a $3 tube of glitter. Sprayed a layer of black spray paint on the guitar and the sprinkled the glitter over the wet paint then shook the guitar to spread the glitter evenly(ish) .. let paint dry then clearcoat :rofl:

I have used spray can glitter paint before and yeah it is bloody messy with a lot of wastage
Just asking; would there be a difference in the look if you'd used a silver base or is the glitter completely opaque?