One of the biggest limitations, when you’re purchasing a low budget electric guitar, is that there is isn’t a large option of color choices for these instruments which is why in this occasion we have decided to let you know how to paint a guitar in the right way and what to prepare beforehand.
If you happen to be looking for a specific custom guitar color or you’re just looking to refinish a guitar, it’s actually pretty simple to learn how to refinish and repaint a guitar yourself!
Before you get into refinishing your instrument, know that refinishing and repainting a guitar is much more difficult than refinishing any other wood object, as a large amount of effort and attention has to be paid in order to achieve a smooth, sleek, factory appearance.
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When starting out this project, make sure that you’re prepared to take your time, as painting guitars and finishing their guitar body in the proper manner is a lengthy process that can take weeks to accomplish.
Make sure that you don’t rush when doing this job, as you may feel like there’s a pressure being put on you to finish the job up quickly so that you can get back to playing your instrument.
If you are doing your own paint job, make sure that you follow some simple guidelines that we list in this article and that you don’t rust, as your rush job and mistakes will show through in your final results!
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You can start this process by removing the strings of your guitar, just by clipping the strings away with a pair of wire clippers or string clippers.
There is no way that you can repaint a guitar with this strings on, which means that when you’re finished painting your guitar, you’re more than likely going to need to re-adjust your truss rod once you put the guitar back together.
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Guitar necks that bolt on are actually pretty easy to remove, as all you have to do is unscrew the bolts that are on the back of the neck joint and gently wiggle the neck free.
However, if you happen to have a neck that’s glued on, glued necks aren’t meant to be removed, so you’ll just have to leave the instrument’s neck alone and repaint it to match the rest of the body.
Once you’ve removed the neck of the guitar, you’ll work on removing all of the hardware on the guitar. You can use a screwdriver or an Allen wrench to remove the bridge, knobs, strap buttons, pickguard, pickups, and the output jack.
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There are some guitar models where the output jack and knobs are wired to the pickups through holes that are in between each cavity, so you’re just going to need to cut the wires in order to remove each piece of hardware.
The bridge studs are what you’re going to work on after removing some the rest of your hardware. Some instruments don’t have any bridge studs, but the bridge of the guitar can just be unscrewed from the body of your instrument.
If you’re really desperate to remove the bridge studs, you can heat the wood up with a soldering iron so that the wood heats up and when the studs start to cool down, they will contract and become easier to remove. The downfall to do this is that when you use pliers to remove the bridge studs, you can scar the finish of the studs and actually end up ruining their appearance.
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Now that everything is removed from your instrument, you should set all the hardware and fasteners aside in plastic baggies and label the baggies.
Refinishing your instrument can take you a couple of weeks (or even a few months), so you’re really going to want to make sure that you have each bolt and screw labeled, as this will help to prevent any confusion when you’re going and reassembling your guitar.
Since all of your hardware is now off of your instrument, you’re going to start to work on sanding the existing finish on the guitar. When sanding the existing finish on the guitar, you have two options on how you can go about on this process.
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You can decide to either sand away the finish completely, or you can rough up the finish that’s already on the guitar to put on a fresh coat of paint that’s going to stick to the instrument.
When repainting your guitar and you’ve decided to go with a stain, a translucent paint, or going back to the original finish that’s darker than the color of paint that you’re going with, you’re going to completely remove the finish that’s already on the instrument. If you’re only going to use a solid paint on your instrument, then you’re only going to need to rough up the surface of your instrument.
Keep in mind that a lot of guitar builders agree that a thick coat of paint or finish will tonally diminish your instrument.
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Next, take an orbital sander (I recommend this Porter Cable Random Orbital Sander w/dust vac port) to remove most of the finish. You can fit an orbital sander with some coarse grit sandpaper and work it over the entire body of your instrument, using circular and smooth strokes.
Though you may be extremely tempted, don’t use paint stripper; not only is this an extremely toxic and messy process, but most paint strippers also don’t have the capabilities to remove the rock hard polyurethane that a lot of guitar manufacturers use.
I personally recommend this sander as it's easy to manuever and comes standard with a dust vac port for efficient dust removal for delicate sanding projects such as this.
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After using your sander, if you’ve noticed that there is still finish on your instrument, you can use sandpaper to remove the rest of the finish.
Curved areas on your guitar are going to be difficult for your sander to reach, so using coarse grit sandpaper or a coarse grit sanding sponge can be used to remove the finish in these hard-to-reach places.
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4 different grit includes: 60, 80, 120, 220. Coarse, Medium, Fine and superfine. Sanding sponge Size: 4 x 2.8 x 1 inch.
Once you’ve finished using the sandpaper, you’re going to work on smoothing the guitar’s body. You can use a fine grain of sandpaper of to smooth out the wood on the guitar.
You’re going to want to work over the entire body of the guitar with a medium grit sandpaper (120 grit) and go back over again with the entire body and use an even finer grit of paper (220 grit).
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Now that you’re all done working on removing the finish of the guitar and smoothing the body down, you’re going to need to remove all of the dust on the guitar.
In order to remove additional dust using a can of compressed air to spray the dust away or you can wipe away the dust with a moistened cloth that’s been dampened with water.
Unless you are purposefully going for the unfinished and distressed look, you are going to want to apply grain filler to your guitar’s body when you’re working on mahogany or other porous woods.
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A grain filler is another term for putty or a filler to make your guitar’s surface even for when you start painting.
If you decide to go with a filler, choose an oil-based or a water-based fill that will match the finish or paint that you’re using.
You can get by with any water based wood filler, but the folks at ColorTone created a grain filler specifically for guitars which I highly recommend! NOTE: you can also find different color variations (e.g. mahogany) if you prefer a particular finish.
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Once you are all finished applying a grain filler, use mineral spirits to remove all of the oils that are on top of your guitar’s body. After you’ve applied the mineral spirits, don’t touch your guitar!
Before you begin to apply your new paint or finish the job, you should place your instrument inside of a large box that is sitting on top of a type of portable table (like a TV tray).
The opening of the box that you’ve chosen should be laid on its side so that when you’re painting your guitar, all of the paint is contained within the box, while also allowing the guitar to slide in and out of the box with ease.
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Also ensure when you’re getting your area ready for painting your instrument that you’re doing so in a room that’s nice an open, that way you don’t have to worry about your furniture getting accidentally painted.
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