NOT EASY BEING GREEN...

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:42 pm

This is true. And they will look just like the ink sample that I would like you to send me, Elys!

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 1:44 pm

Hey, Kenny:

"Like" is one thing.

"Opening one's wallet like", is another flavor entirely.

janglerocker · Post by **janglerocker** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:48 pm

So Paul, that green didn't "absorb" into the wood? I would think you'd still have some green undertones (dang I miss the Undertones) in the grain of the wood even after stripping. Is the maple that dense that the paint doesn't sink in?

and btw, I agree on trying different colors. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

kenposurf · Post by **kenposurf** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:50 pm

or..nothing "grained"...

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 2:59 pm

There is at least one (or more) protective coat(s) of clear sealer between the wood and the pigment coat. And, since the pigment coat had been on such a short time, one might assume that the pigment coat was easier to remove than if it had been covered for months and years by a finish clearcoat.

For the green to have "soaked" into the wood, I would guess that Paul 's sealer coat(s) would have had to have been incomplete or have otherwise gone seriously awry.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:59 pm

I've been training Elys to channel me, Dan. He's coming along very well, thank you...

Rick finishes are applied over a sealer, or, in the case of some solids like Ruby, over opaque primer.

I've got some other tricks that I use when painting these acoustics that I've developed to add depth and brilliance to the colors as well. These techniques are, in fact, not time-savers, because they complicate and extend the finishing process, time-wise (up to about a month in most cases), but the quality of the finished product is improved tremendously.

eric_b · Post by **eric_b** » Wed Jul 18, 2007 5:23 pm

Cheater ;^) If only we didn't have that pesky schedule...*Sigh* You make me envious Paul

janglerocker · Post by **janglerocker** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 3:57 am

Ahhhh, sealer..... Of course. I think maybe a Homeresque D'oh!! is due me here.

firstbassman · Post by **firstbassman** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 4:03 am

Call me a traditionalist. Call me old fashioned even.
But IMHO acoustic guitars should only come in one color – natural wood grain – as nature intended.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:03 am

If nature intended for guitars to exist at all, 'she' accomplished it via the opposable thumb...the same instrument that makes wielding an airbrush possible, which can't really be separated into a category of things 'unintended', TMWOT.

Call me a taxi.

beatlefreak · Post by **beatlefreak** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:39 am

Mark, you're such an old-fashioned traditionalist.

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:50 am

OK, Dane: "YOU'RE A TAXI".