I tried to wipe off some of the gold from the purple but I just rubbed all the way through to the silver flake (sealed with clear coat, obviously).

I realised that because I was spraying gold over the whole lot, including the purple. Guess what happened? Yep, the purple turned more and more red as...

Ok, time for the gold candy. Looks ok doesn’t it? Not exactly.

I offered up the scratch plate and thought it looked ok. 👍

All was going well, so it was time to unmask.

I wasn’t quite happy with the masking on the top, not swirly enough, so I adjusted it a bit. I then got some purple on there. Coincidentally, the name...

I wanted that ‘60s swirly pattern and I was going to do it with purple and gold candy, over the metal flake. I would then choose mirrored gold scratch...

I wanted a swirly pattern so I got masking.

I wiped all the candy off this guitar and started with a clean slate again. I played around with some masking techniques, trying different shapes and ...

@rocknroller912 It’s a great method. How would you go about doing the opposite thing, do you think? If the neck had a back bow? 🤔

@clinton I never know what to say any more. You have so much skill and talent for putting these guitars together now that words fail me. Just stunning...

@russ Thanks Russ, I’ll bear that in mind. 🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👍

Although I can’t add anything, I’m loving this conversation, very interesting stuff. I’m so happy with the thought that people put into these forums, ...

Sardines anyone?

Yeah, this is feasible and a reasonable solution to the problem. Any of these solutions are a bit fiddly and time consuming. I think in this case, ...

@bpower These forums are good and they work well because we support each other, even if there are differences of opinion. We are respectful and consid...

@bpower You may have seen me use this when I make those Barncaster guitars but the principle is the same for what you need. The Barncasters are intent...

@darrenking I use this stuff to get some great results.

@darrenking Would that be an epoxy glue or (like @bpower is suggesting here) an epoxy resin? What is the difference? I know my dad used to use good...