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Guitar Painters (antigua)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:03 am
by dniederkorn
I am looking to get my project tele painted antigua. My budget is 100ish dollars anyone know of any good painters in this range

Re: Guitar Painters (antigua)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:31 am
by yallerhon
Do you mean someone to disassemble, strip, sand, paint, airbrush, varnish and reassemble your guitar in the antigua style?

You may be very optimistic at $100, but good luck! :)

Re: Guitar Painters (antigua)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:08 am
by Gone Fission
Reranch doesn't have a finish product expressly for it so I'm out of DIY ideas. I gather that Anitguas are more of a pain to shoot than most sunbursts because the colors are solid and aren't supposed to blend like in a traditional burst. So doesn't sound like a first time DIY and probably a few hundred to pay someone to shoot.

If you have an available place to do the finishing, I'd look at the available Reranch colors and pick a winner and shoot it yourself. There stuff is expensive, but they have good classic guitar colors and great how-to info.

Re: Guitar Painters (antigua)

Posted: Wed Jun 13, 2012 8:20 am
by dniederkorn
yallerhon wrote:Do you mean someone to disassemble, strip, sand, paint, airbrush, varnish and reassemble your guitar in the antigua style?

You may be very optimistic at $100, but good luck! :)



Haha the body is unfinished and just needs paint

Re: Guitar Painters (antigua)

Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 2:58 am
by Nelson Instruments
I'm guessing you want later antigua? Early (late 60s) antigua was basically black to white sunburst.
there were increasing amounts of green added and it ended up being a sort of army-ish green to cream middle by the late 70s