painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

[delt]

I plan to make a relatively complex graphic design on my rhoads body, what should i use to make the pinstripes? The desired result would be similar to this beautiful roswell rhoads, except white pinstripe on darker color:

[Newc]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

For something like that, you'd start by painting the body whatever color your pins will be, mask the design, then paint the body the color you want it, then peel the mask tape off.

Or you could hop down to Auto Zone and grab some auto pinstriping instead of painting them on.

Newc

[sully]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

get pinstriper's tape. 3M makes some; you want the 1/8" thickness.

sully

[mm2002]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

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get pinstriper's tape. 3M makes some; you want the 1/8" thickness.

sully

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Yup...and a couple of fresh sharp x-acto blades and a steady hand

[delt]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

thanks guys, that's pretty much what i was thinking of doing.

but wouldn't the difference in paint thickness cause problems?

[sully]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

that's where your clear coat comes in.

sully

[Jim Shine]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

I would also be very light with the first coat over the pinstripers tape. Too wet a coat and the finish can bleed under the tape. I usually hit it with two very dry coats with a few minutes of flash between them, then one medium wet coat.

[Budman68]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

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I would also be very light with the first coat over the pinstripers tape. Too wet a coat and the finish can bleed under the tape. I usually hit it with two very dry coats with a few minutes of flash between them, then one medium wet coat.

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<font color="aqua">This is excellent advice! </font>

[jackson1]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

I'm a little slow, so once again for me: are you saying that you can put on pinstriper's tape and then clear coat over it? So that you have that tape locked up and sealed under the coat? Does it look proffessional - do pro's actually do this? Does it take gallons of clear to even out the tape "bumps"?

Another one, the expression "flash" when talking about painting.... could someone explain that to me, you know really spell it out for me :-) I'm a little uncertain what it really means.

[Jim Shine]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

When I think of pinstripers tape my thinking is say you want a white pin stripe on a black body, prime the guitar white, after a couple days of curing tape off the design, paint the black, remove the tape and you have a void left where the black paint only went on the tape.

Flash is the period of time right after application when it goes from liquid to a tacky, somewhat solid film. It releases the most vapors atr this point as well and stinks to high heaven.

More tips. If the tape you use likes to bleed (or if you want to be sure you will get a clean line), after applying the pinstripe tape seal the tape up with a dry coat of clear, let stand for 20 minutes, then do the dry color coat followed by medium wet coat as described above. Remove the pinstripers tape within a couple of hours after painting as if you allow it to sit too long it may chip the color coat as you pull it off. You want the finish to be cured enough to touch, but still soft enough to remove the tape.

[jackson1]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

Maybe i by accident invented a new time saving trick: just leave that tape there and clearcoat over it. Saves a lot of time and paint. Cool,eh? Heh, guess not.

[Jim Shine]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?

Test it for compatibility, if it works, do it. Blood Splatter showed me an original Charvel a while back we are both feel had a skull graphic cut from vinyl, detailed with an airbrush and cleared. Now the clear finish is seperating from that vinyl.

[delt]

Re: painting - what should i use for pinstripes?


thanks again for the advice. i guess i should carefully remove the tape starting by peeling the ends off with a sharp blade, right? .... and for color, should i really just let the primer show through, or should i add a layer of "real" white paint on the top for good measure? sure it will look ok?

&gt; that's where your clear coat comes in.

exactly what i was talking about.... isn't it more difficult to get an even clear-coat if there's a "bumped" area in the paint?

oh and i can't find 1/8" pinstripe tape in the hardware stores, smallest i could find is 1/4.