Mustang Kali

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:07 am

DISASTER!!!

While spraying the 2nd color (burst) the top of the paint c came off! it shot weird clumps of paint on the guitar and stopped working... I'm going to see what I can fix with careful sanding but I may be back to teh drawing board...

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

Ty · Post by Ty » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:14 am

silly_rabbit_band wrote:you should just paint this one Green Pearl.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:17 am

Here's a preview of where this is going, since I have to resupply and do some serious touch up...

And just because I love it and it's next to me, here's my main guitar right now...

Seriously in love with that thing...

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:30 am

I'm so pissed... things were moving along so well too...

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:55 am

holy shit. that looks awesome. if you can, mask off as much of the gold as you can, respray, and then redo the blue burst.

dude, it's a teisco. LP looks hot too. fucking demo?

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 5:06 am

hotrodperlmutter wrote:holy shit. that looks awesome. if you can, mask off as much of the gold as you can, respray, and then redo the blue burst.

dude, it's a teisco. LP looks hot too. fucking demo?

The LP will get a demo, I already broke it though. Not that there's a kbob missing? I fucking broke the neck volume pot somehow. Which is ok, I'm more of a bridge guy and the coil split makes the bridge perform double duty any how.. but I wanna give it a good all around show off. Gotta a new Long Shaft Pot on it's way Saturday... fucking Gibson sizes demanding specialized hardware.

That ebony fingerboard is AMAZING.

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 5:57 pm

Ends that combo is perfect w/ that pg. I hope round 2 turns out, because that will be sweet as hell.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 7:23 pm

mezzio13 wrote:Ends that combo is perfect w/ that pg. I hope round 2 turns out, because that will be sweet as hell.

Round 2 happens tonight. I'm glad you approve, will post updates later.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:49 am

Disaster strikes again and again!

Went to go buy more paint and the original color I had was out and they aren't stocking it anymore. So I grabbed one that looked close and figured with clever spraying I could blend it and make it look decent.
Not to be so.

As soon as I spray it I see that it's much much darker than shown on the cap. And non metallic. And looks hideous over the gold.

So I move on to plan B.
I'm already $50 or so into supplies at this point so I refuse to buy any more paint. I've painted the whole body this dark rich blue and amd going to reverse the burst so the blue bursts to gold rather than the other way around. I am also going to let the gold mist over the blue slightly to give it a metallic sheen as well antique it a bit.

We'll see how this goes. Worst case scenario... Kali ends up Blue.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 1:58 am

endsjustifymeans wrote:Worst case scenario... Kali ends up Blue.

DESTINY

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 2:02 am

This is the blue I've ended up with...

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 3:58 am

Finished headstock

all together, just to get an idea of what it's gonna look like

Totally different than how I envisioned it, but maybe it's a happy mistake. We'll see after the gold burst is applied.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:14 am

whoa, that's pretty cool. I like how the headstock matches the pickguard

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 12:26 pm

That is a seriously sexy guitar.

The gold/blue burst was kind of meh, I prefer the plain blue.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:24 pm

this is going to be so cool. I can't wait to see it finished.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 7:58 pm

needs TOM!

it looks pretty good. would've rather seen the blue burst though (first kind). probably looked worse off IRL than in pics, but you've saved her!

got any new tuners?

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:32 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:
endsjustifymeans wrote:Worst case scenario... Kali ends up Blue.
DESTINY

Fact:

This guitar is cursed. It only wants to be blue. Any other color combination and something goes horribly wrong.

I finished the burst and as I was spraying the clear coat it literally jumped off teh hook and landed on a tree stump, taking a nice HUGE 7" gash out of the gold on the side of teh front. I can easily sand it it back... but the only color I have left is the Blue.

Hotrod promised this guitar it would be blue, and it will settle for no less.

Back to the drawing board... again!

Tuners are on their way, along with a roller bridge.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 9:54 pm

SPITE THE THING PAINT IT RED!

Just kidding. The light blue and gold burst was a cool idea but the dark blue is cooler.

matching pickguard and heastock is very nice. Reminds me of a '90s custom shop strat i saw.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 10:16 pm

god damnit. i did do a very basic curse on it, but that particular brand usually wears off after a year... interesting.

she is going to be stubborn, but with the persistence i know you have, you'll whip her bitch ass into shape in no time.

this?:

i ordered two black ones for goth LP and dot.

landon · Post by **landon** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:23 am

wow i really like the pickguard material
where did you get it?