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Hi all, first post here and looking for advice already, now I've seen too many nice SuperSonics to let mine languish in a half finished purgatory of nice parts but shite paint.

Mods so far include a custom pick guard and backplate from pickguardian, gold back painted with mini humbucker holes, wired with switchcraft and CTS with a vol/tone setup and Gibson firebird pickups. Sounds great, twangy on the bridge and smooth at the neck, loves fuzz and reverb.

As it stands it has a purple sparkle finish that got ruined when the guitar got moved from where I had left it suspended while the paint cured and ended up with indentations through to the primer. I really lost any enthusiasm for painting after this and just reassembled it, scrapes and all. It is one of my absolute favourite guitars and I would love to see it done justice, ideally with a flake or sparkle finish, perhaps with a matchibg headsock if I can get a decal. A quick google shows plenty of painters in the UK but I would like to know if anyone can recommend somebody for the work.

LEAAVE ITTTTTT!

Believe me it looks much better in the pic than in real life, that's the joy of crappy phone cameras for you, in the flesh there's big marks in the paint and the sparkle just makes it look worse.

Hit a local auto repair shop that does body work.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:LEAAVE ITTTTTT!

dude, I would leave it. it adds your own touch. And if you're really set on changing it, refinish it yourself. You get better every time around and it curled up, you have a problem with the different kinds of paint used and that can be easily fixed by asking us what is okay and not okay to spray on top of each other. for real, you'll enjoy the guitar more if you do it.

If you look at my thread I've built a SS and am half way thru a sparkle paint job. I'd even love to see a real one to refine my specks on my templates. However a good auto body shop can do this for you faster than I could. Try to get some quotes. Maybe we could work something out if the cost at a auto body shop is crazy. A lot of auto body shops also don't like doing small jobs, they like big jobs to keep them busy and puts more money in their pockets.

wantsasupersonic wrote:If you look at my thread I've built a SS and am half way thru a sparkle paint job. I'd even love to see a real one to refine my specks on my templates. However a good auto body shop can do this for you faster than I could. Try to get some quotes. Maybe we could work something out if the cost at a auto body shop is crazy. A lot of auto body shops also don't like doing small jobs, they like big jobs to keep them busy and puts more money in their pockets.

Dude, yours looks amazing, great work! Unfortunately the cost of shipping the guitar across the Atlantic and back would probably be close onto the cost of a pro refin.

SKC Willie wrote:

hotrodperlmutter wrote:LEAAVE ITTTTTT!

dude, I would leave it. it adds your own touch. And if you're really set on changing it, refinish it yourself. You get better every time around and it curled up, you have a problem with the different kinds of paint used and that can be easily fixed by asking us what is okay and not okay to spray on top of each other. for real, you'll enjoy the guitar more if you do it.

I may not have been clear, the problem wasn't a paint reaction, it was that the body got moved while the paint was still soft and put on top of a work bench, whos plastic clamp blocks pushed into the paint and through to primer. Up until then it was looking ok, and was almost ready for clear. I was just about ready to kill my then fathe in law when he did that. I'm thinking I will start sanding back and priming today, I'll see how I feel about tackling the whole finish. I may just go with plain purple rather than sparkle.

control_67 wrote:Hi all, first post here and looking for advice already, now I've seen too many nice SuperSonics to let mine languish in a half finished purgatory of nice parts but shite paint.

Mods so far include a custom pick guard and backplate from pickguardian, gold back painted with mini humbucker holes, wired with switchcraft and CTS with a vol/tone setup and Gibson firebird pickups. Sounds great, twangy on the bridge and smooth at the neck, loves fuzz and reverb.

As it stands it has a purple sparkle finish that got ruined when the guitar got moved from where I had left it suspended while the paint cured and ended up with indentations through to the primer. I really lost any enthusiasm for painting after this and just reassembled it, scrapes and all. It is one of my absolute favourite guitars and I would love to see it done justice, ideally with a flake or sparkle finish, perhaps with a matchibg headsock if I can get a decal. A quick google shows plenty of painters in the UK but I would like to know if anyone can recommend somebody for the work.

Kinda looks like the J. Mascis Super-Sonic with those colors.

taylornutt wrote:

control_67 wrote:Hi all, first post here and looking for advice already, now I've seen too many nice SuperSonics to let mine languish in a half finished purgatory of nice parts but shite paint.

Mods so far include a custom pick guard and backplate from pickguardian, gold back painted with mini humbucker holes, wired with switchcraft and CTS with a vol/tone setup and Gibson firebird pickups. Sounds great, twangy on the bridge and smooth at the neck, loves fuzz and reverb.

As it stands it has a purple sparkle finish that got ruined when the guitar got moved from where I had left it suspended while the paint cured and ended up with indentations through to the primer. I really lost any enthusiasm for painting after this and just reassembled it, scrapes and all. It is one of my absolute favourite guitars and I would love to see it done justice, ideally with a flake or sparkle finish, perhaps with a matchibg headsock if I can get a decal. A quick google shows plenty of painters in the UK but I would like to know if anyone can recommend somebody for the work.

Kinda looks like the J. Mascis Super-Sonic with those colors.

That was kinda my plan, my other offset is a J Mascis Squier JM. I'm a big fan of higher end Squiers, had a couple of JV57 based strats (one reliced with some CS parts, the other a superstrat done in the 80s) and also have a ProTone thinline tele.

I took the SS apart last night, I will start sanding today I've contacted a hot rod painter to see if they can lay down some nice fat flake for me, now, do I get the headstock painted to match? Does anyone produce decals for the SS?

control_67 wrote:

taylornutt wrote:

control_67 wrote:Hi all, first post here and looking for advice already, now I've seen too many nice SuperSonics to let mine languish in a half finished purgatory of nice parts but shite paint.

Mods so far include a custom pick guard and backplate from pickguardian, gold back painted with mini humbucker holes, wired with switchcraft and CTS with a vol/tone setup and Gibson firebird pickups. Sounds great, twangy on the bridge and smooth at the neck, loves fuzz and reverb.

As it stands it has a purple sparkle finish that got ruined when the guitar got moved from where I had left it suspended while the paint cured and ended up with indentations through to the primer. I really lost any enthusiasm for painting after this and just reassembled it, scrapes and all. It is one of my absolute favourite guitars and I would love to see it done justice, ideally with a flake or sparkle finish, perhaps with a matchibg headsock if I can get a decal. A quick google shows plenty of painters in the UK but I would like to know if anyone can recommend somebody for the work.

Kinda looks like the J. Mascis Super-Sonic with those colors.

That was kinda my plan, my other offset is a J Mascis Squier JM. I'm a big fan of higher end Squiers, had a couple of JV57 based strats (one reliced with some CS parts, the other a superstrat done in the 80s) and also have a ProTone thinline tele.

I took the SS apart last night, I will start sanding today I've contacted a hot rod painter to see if they can lay down some nice fat flake for me, now, do I get the headstock painted to match? Does anyone produce decals for the SS?

There are people on ebay that will produce reproduction decals for just about any guitar. Go by their feedback.