Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Paul: Forgive me for brining up American Chopper once again, but I noticed "Nubby" painting a gas tank for a bike and saw him layering colours that gave an interesting depth and texture to the finish. Almost a checker board effect using different colours of blue. My question is whether this same style might be put to good effect on a guitar. I suppose a simple example of this is the ruby or midnight blue finish used by RIC, but are there any other examples of this outside of the burst guitars?

I don't watch the show--I'm working on my own: "Guitar Choppers"--so it's a bit hard to visualize exactly what you're talking about, but let me say it this way:

Anything that can be painted on a motorcycle or car, can be also done on a guitar.

Bear in mind that, to my snobbish and curmudgeonly eye, 99% of so-called "chopper" paint jobs are in the height of bad taste...

But an abstract varicolored paint job in shades of deep blue, or deep red, or even FG, could be done to the "right" guitar or bass, to great effect!

Paul, next bass you do for me I want it painted with a half-nekkid Valkyrie astride Pegasus - except a black Pegasus, with glowing red eyes snorting fire - in full flight brandishing a broadsword with a jeweled scabbard departing a battlefield of flames and lightning carrying a Chihuahua. With laser beams coming out of its eyes.

I like Chihuahuas with laser beam eyes.

Who doesn't?

Blue or red? I personally think red is over the top...

I like the jewelled scabbard, though.

Green laser beams.

Green.

Greeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnn.

This is the stuff nightmares are made from.

See what you've done Paul?

Curmudge: You will have to drop by their Orange County shop to have a look for yourself.

Peter...

Hey! That's my Orange County!!! They're about 50 miles south of me in New York.

Not that it matters... Jesse James makes a much nicer bike.

Oops. Sorry Bob. Time for another geography lesson.

Hahaha... that's OK Peter... no one thinks of Southern NY as a hotbed of highly derivative choppers done in a building that's a cross between the WWF and General Hospital...

I'm going to go bury my head in my overtaxed piece of NY land.

Thank God that the arrogant, overbearing Walrus and his underachieving henchmen are far, far away...

In my case, too close for comfort...

Paul: I see you may have a passing familiarity with their work.

Only their dysfunctional family ways...

And, BTW, have you ever noticed that things that they build never fit together properly? I've never watched a whole show, but when I tune through while surfing (I watch less than an hour of TV a day on average...), the old man is usually upbraiding one of his asochistic underlings for some SNAFU or other.

Not my idea of fun.

I was going to correct the above misspelling, but decided the wrong spelling was more apropo.