My sweetheart @cynzi is an excellent artist. Of course I am probably a little biased but I think she is amazing.
There is no wall in my house that isn't adorned with remarkable art work and sculptures.
All the rest of the space is taken up by music equipment and Instruments. I use my living room as our rehearsal space for our band. This is also where we are recording our next songs to be released.
I love restoring old instruments and also love woodworking so I teamed up with Cinzy to revamp two Ibanez guitars that we had laying around.
CInzy had hers given to her as a gift. She wanted to repaint and replace all the silver hardware, which was mediocre at best with gold and copper. We also replaced the tuning keys with top quality gold keys. We couldn't find a bridge so we eventually took it somewhere to have it gold plated. We added new springs and parts on the whammy bar too.
Once we had the parts the next step I took was removing the hardware and taking off the neck. Then I gave the guitar to Cinzy to do her artwork.
The technique she used is called a "Dirty Pour" because it is a mixed medium of acrylic paints, oils and other ingredients that create a wonderful effect.
It was fun for her to pick out the colors she wanted. Due to our group being called, "Sugarplum the Band", we tend to go with purples, golds, coppers etc. It was a bit of a challenge pouring an unusual shape vs. her usual canvases.
Once removing all the silver hardware we taped off the holes to prevent the paint from puddling there. It was fun to manipulate the paint into particular areas to create certain effects. After drying we had to do the other side. Next came the refinishing of the neck and varnishing.
I painted the neck pick guard and back plate with copper spray paint. I had to get a new decal for the neck. It was really nice that I could still find it online.
After painting every thing I gave the neck and body 12 coats of varnish.
When every thing was dried and cured I lined the inside of the guitar cavity with copper tape to prevent electrical humming.
I then put brand new switches and knobs but decide to keep the vintage pickups because I liked the sound.
The finished product couldn't have turned out better and the sound of the guitar is very professional. It is exactly what what we had hoped for. We have even had offers from people to buy it.
I would say that we took a shabby guitar and turned it into a unique piece of art as well as a fabulous sounding instrument.
Tell me what you think of this project in the comments below.
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