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I don't need advice on relicing or painting comp stripes....what I am thinking of doing is refinishing a strat copy I have this summer in blue as seen here

OR

red as seen here:

I like the depth and spottiness some of those worn in examples of fender metallic finishes...considering it'll be going on my kick around guitar I think I'd feel better shooting for imperfect and broken in from the get go, but having said that I still don't want to do a shit job and I'm not trying to make a relic. Just like the paint. Any advice on where to start? If I went reranch any colors or techniques to use to get these effects?

see if you can find that thread rodvonbon made when he was refinishing pat's old compstang. i think you're basically looking at using tinted clearcoat to different degrees to get that patchy yellowed finish.

hotrodperlmutter wrote:THE SHORTSCALE EFFECT
featuring:
RODVONBON as ashton kutcher
PACAFELIZ as amy smart
and THE CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS as the BUTTERFLY

ha, wtf was i talking about

Exactly what I was looking for, I thought I had remembered this coming up before.

I suppose plans if I decide to go blue would be to do up an LPB finish, then spray some vintage tint unevenly around the guitar all willy nilly, then do a nice even coat of clear. Should work, no?

If I decided to go red though I was almost thinking of trying to do that coppery-CAR you see sometimes in spots... for some reason I was thinking it has something to do with a metallic base coat that comes through after wear...think this same effect might come through with the vintage tint since it's effectively yellowing red?