mrjones200x Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Anyone got any tips to give me or advice on swirl painting. Goona have a go on a cheapy guitar ive just aquired. Thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carverman Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Anyone got any tips to give me or advice on swirl painting. Goona have a go on a cheapy guitar ive just aquired. Thanks guys What exactly do you mean by "swirl"? Starting on the midpoint of the guitar body and then branching out from that point in a swirling pinwheel effect? or this... http://www.simscustomshop.com/ If you are thinking a single colour or multicolor swirl/pin wheel effect, then you need to have the design drawn out on paper first and then cut out with an exacto knife on thin air brush artist transfer tape. That will set your reference points for freehand air brush. You can free hand colours on top of that and then overspray to provide all sorts of effects. It can be done with spray cans, but these are not controlable the same way as an air brush, so you will get runs. Air brush is pricey though...I paid over $300 for my compressor and each air brush ranges from $300 to $500 depending on how fine the tip is and how controlable you want the spray to be. The other way is to use inexpensive hobby/craft paints as used in Tole painting, but this would have to be applied by hand brush. Definitely a cheap way to do it, but the results may look similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjones200x Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 Sorry didnt explain myself to well. Swirling i think is know as marbeling. Similar to the Jem range like this below. http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstring-guitars/64435-sims-custom-shop-watermelon-swirled-ibanez-uv-jem-body.html Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Just Strum Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 I never considered the paint job, but I just googled "swirl painting a guitar" and got a couple of good his including some youtube stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BSAKing Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 From the deep depths of my (somewhat feeble) memory I recollect doing that sort of thing when I was a kid with toy cars. IIRC, it was a type of paint that floated on water, you mixed several together to get the swirl and then dipped the item in it and yanked it out to produce that type of finish. Not sure if that is how they do it on a guitar body though. There are probably a variety of methods one could use. I'm sure Google will be your friend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ef_in_fla Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Check Youtube, there are a couple how to's on there. The great thing about painting a cheapie is that if it doesn't work out you can always repaint it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Definitely a 'marbling'-technique. Swirl is a more popular term but would technically be incorrect. Sorta like tremelo and vibrato. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carverman Posted November 27, 2008 Share Posted November 27, 2008 Sorry didnt explain myself to well. Swirling i think is know as marbeling. Similar to the Jem range like this below. http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/sevenstring-guitars/64435-sims-custom-shop-watermelon-swirled-ibanez-uv-jem-body.html Thanks Neat. I think that kind of technique is a trade secret with these guys, so good luck there trying to reproduce it. Looking at it a bit, I would think that the coating is a mixture of heavy-ish plastics that are poured on and different colours are mixed in by brush before the plastic cures..hence the ripple-swirly effect. The interesting part is that for the back to be as uniform as the front, it would have to be hanging by a wire around the neck somewhere and lowered into a vat of either acrylic thick paint or some kind of coloured plastic and pulled out slowly so that the paint colours run into each other and blend with each other.. Why don't your try the old Andy Warhol ( modern impressionist painter) where he litterly through cans of paint on the canvas..and called that "art". :- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrjones200x Posted November 27, 2008 Author Share Posted November 27, 2008 Have read loads of info on this procedure and have watch the youtibe vids. Have had a go with spraying car paint from a can into the lid and pouring it in as they do and it didnt do a bad job. The hard bits its getting the paint to float. I keep reading oil paints or plastie-kote acrilic paint but think they need thining as they sink then they form a skin very quickly on the top. Heard they use borax to thiken the water so the paint floats. If so i might stay with the areosol as it spread nicely. Be really helpfull if someone had done here but not that much luck. This is my fav youtube vid of the process. http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUEbXAm-hY Anyone know where to get the paint from for this technique in the uk?? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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