Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Ever with an eye to a sales opportunity, eh Mr W?

I long ago decided that I'd start decorating my guitars when I got to the point that I could play them so well that there was little else worth doing with them.

Still waiting...

Perhaps my blunt rejoinder was misinterpreted.

Sales opportunity? Nope. I do it for fun and don't need to make a living at it, so my friends get a tremendous amount of work for very little money, comparatively speaking.

But when I see somebody claiming, as you do, that it's easier to strip a guitar than to paint one, well, I jump at the chance to educate. So I offered to employ you, in jest, of course.

FYI, on average, it takes about 4 hours to completely "unpaint" a guitar, and something like 20 to paint one, depending on color.

I paint much better than I play, but I have lots of fun doing both.

Sorry, Paul, think we're a bit at cross purposes here - my original comment was made with the 'can of spray paint and an idle afternoon' sort of paint job in mind - i.e. something that would take you a lot longer to put right than it would to do in the first place - rather than the sort of work you do.

PS I didn't mean to imply that you were using the forum to tout for business, either - I know that you've offered a wealth of experience and help to people on here without any hint of wanting to be paid for it. Please take it as a throwaway comment that came out wrong and accept my apologies...

Hey, no problem, Mr. Mike!

Oddly, before I edited my last post, my first sentence read:

"Mike, I think we're at cross purposes here."

Great minds think alike? Separated at birth?

Call Scully and Mulder.