Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Guitar Plans - Making Your Classical guitar

By Nicole Mil Baker


Ever had that feeling that you need to strip off the guitar and try to make it just a little bit extra custom-made and shaped\tailor-made the way you need it to be? You are not the only one who wants to add their own signature on the design of their acoustic guitars and make it more "you."

Primarily, before you actually do anything else, make sure you have the these:

- Wet/dry sandpaper (three hundred and twenty and one thousand grit) - Clear coat or lacquer - Spray paint (preferred colour) - Water - Clean paper towels - 6 brand new guitar strings

Now that you've got the needed assets, let's get all the way down to customizing.

Initially, dismantle the guitar. Disentangle and loosen your guitar strings so it is possible to remove it out of your pegheads or tuning pegs. remove all your hooked up equipment getting in the way of your redesigning. I suggests removing your pegheads too.

Next, sand it down! What is left now is your fundamental guitar body. You need to strip its clear coat away by utilizing the 320 grit sandpaper. It's ideal to wet your sandpaper whilst you sand the guitar down. Continue sanding until your acoustic guitar loses its glow and gets its flat color. Sand all these scratches and shine away so that the new paint you will put in your guitar will stick.

After that it is time to paint away. After all your sanding, it is now time to put on paint. Paint light coats one after another. It's up to you how many coats you need nevertheless do it evenly in the beginning. You might nonetheless paint it thickly in your final coat. Bear in mind to place the guitar evenly flat while painting or else it's going to drip and you might have to sand it over again.

While waiting for your paint to dry, it is possible to start to clean and shine the tuning pegs and check the guitar strings if they might be scratched or not.

Lastly it is time to shine! As soon as the paint has dried on both sides of your guitar, it's now time to give your acoustic guitar a gloss. It's now time to place on your clear coat. You might either use clear coat or lacquer, nonetheless if you want the quick dry types, I recommend the clear coat. Do thick but even coats. If there are still marks on the guitar ensure to remove them before rubbing on the clear coat. Once more, it's based on your own judgement how many layers of coating you would like to put..

As soon as you are finished on one side, don't toss it over simply yet. It is possible to come out with techniques to complete each side with out having to place it down on the floor while waiting for the clear coat to dry. To avoid drip marks and scratches when its finished, it is it is possible to sand it down with the 1000 grit sandpaper between coats.

Now that the painting is actually all completed and dry, it is possible to now start putting back the elements you took off gently while appreciating your new guitar.




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