BC Rich Avenge - Respray with Drop Shadows

To fix our little issue on the back of the guitar (damn you frisket sheets!) we basically had to do a complete re-spray of the guitar from the primer up. This included the tracing and cutting of  new frisket sheets, spraying new colour coats, and for the first time - I overcame my fear of the airbrush to create black drop shadows for the flames.

Front

Back

The fix is definitely a big improvement in the paint job, and the drop shadows really make the flames pop! My son couldn't be happier with the result. Now it's time to get out the Minwax poly and get some layers of poly on this sucker.

BC Rich Avenge - The Frisket is Off

Owing to a skills shortage (mine), my plans to paint a drop shadow behind the flames using an airbrush fell by the wayside today. What that means is that with mounting excitement we could remove the frisket from the body to reveal the flames underneath.  

 

All went smoothly until we realized that the frisket on the back did not meet. There was a tiny gap left between the sheets, and a line of blue paint was visible. I dragged out the light blue paint and attempted a touch up. You can see the small strip of wet paint where the line was. if this doesnt work too well, i'll have to mask it off and attempt a better patch using the spray can.

Anyway, even with this little setback, my son is very happy with the results. Hopefully it's on to the Minwax wipe on poly tomorrow, unless I have to patch the aforementioned stuff up. To be honest, I don't think there's much chance of avoiding it. Oh well, them's the breaks.

BC Rich Avenge - A Splash of Colour, A Lick of Flame

Today we got the base colour coats on both the neck and the body. Both colours look great - very well chosen by my young assistant. We had a couple of lumps to contend with between coats (a result of uneven pressure on the nozzle from small fingers) but these were easily sanded off with 800 grit. Final coats look great.

After the first colour was dry on the body (this light colour will become the colour of the hot rod flames) it was time to cut out our frisket sheet and mask off our flame pattern.

The mask went on easily (not sure how easily it's going to come off however) and we re-sprayed over the top with our dark blue base colour. Remarkably, this coat went on without incident and looks like we'll have a nice single coat of paint from which to extract the frisket. I've used frisket before to mask off inlay, and let me tell you, after 4 layers of paint, the frisket becomes all but irretrievable! 

All that is left now is to airbrush a black drop-shadow on the edge of the flame mask to complete the effect. That's tomorrow's job after the blue coat is completely dry.

I have very high hopes for how this bad boy is going to turn out. My son can't wait to start wiping on the Minwax poly!