Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

"Step One: Dismantling the Guitar

1. Remove the strings and neck (this makes the rest of the guitar far easier to work with)....."

Heck, I was hoping to see how to finish a guitar with the neck and the strings ON...

Lots of these spray can cowboys running around, recoloring their Obanezes and Garbsons, some Fanders, too, from what I've seen...

But Rickenbackers are, as we know, an entirely different kettle of fish.

(Besides, spray cans are dreadful for our planet, in terms of toxicity.)

Yahbut...just LOOK at that end result! Wonder how many of the fingerprints are PERMANENT.

The poster stated that it was to get a final buffing out after the hardware installation was completed.

Although spray cans aren't the best way to go, I'll give the guy credit for trying.

Final buffing and waxing should be done before hardware installation...maybe he was talking about a wipe-down?

Like you say, points for trying.

All right, I know, I'm picking on the guy. It's just that it's hard to take someone with an I****z and a spray can seriously.
I guess I'm just spoiled from gawking at all of Paul W.'s work!
BUT...I do think the phrase, "genius with a spray can" would be right at home on the "oxymoron" thread.

Hmm... maybe I'll try refinishing something.

jdogric12aolcom wrote:Hmm... maybe I'll try refinishing something.

How about Tony C's car?!?

jdogric12aolcom wrote:Hmm... maybe I'll try refinishing something.

Don't you have to restart, first?

rickenbrother wrote:

jdogric12aolcom wrote:Hmm... maybe I'll try refinishing something.

How about Tony C's car?!?

Hmm, I'm sure there is SOMETHING around here that could use a little FINISHING UP!

This guy cracks me up!.....Quote:"Nothing but the best"...in regards to his prized possession!
Maybe i shuld sent him my old used paintbrush!!!
MIchaelangelo he isn't!

I'll tell you guys the troof here:

I don't like to read other peoples' "instructions" on how to do anything.

Unless it's something that I don't have any experience in, on which I want to get an overview.

Is anyone else like me? When I read this guy's instructions on how he painted his guitar in a backyard with a rattle can (thank God it was "only another superStrat"), I immediately want to shut down. There are literally thousands of these kinds of paint jobs, done by thousands of people, every month. (That's how ReRanch stays in biz...) But it's typical of anyone in the blush of first success with something, that they want to show their results off, and show others how to do it. I do it here and on the RIC forum, regularly.

It all comes down to personal experience and the sharing of same. The guy's a beginner, and proud of his efforts. And, considering his experience, choice of materials, and facilities, he's done admirably.

The down side--he will inspire another couple of hundred of people without his patience, luck, attention to detail and dust-free backyard, to destroy an adequate factory paint job, in order to merely change the color to that metalflake chartreuse they've been having disturbing dreams of. And another batch of bodge jobs will turn up on CL and Ebay. And the dealers will have more fuel for their raging fire that says "any refinish devalues a guitar by 50% or more".

In support of Paul's post:

On ebay now.

Must fight the urge to puke