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in all seriousness, i have considered building a version for my daughter
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It could work quite well and if the guitar body was bashed up it would cover imperfections also . A lot easier than painting . On a larger area like a guitar body you would have to work very quick , might better doing it in smaller sections . I was so pleased with how my pedals came out i thought it might be interesting to try on a body myself .
I have been using the small tubes of epoxy from Poundland it does set very quick , you may be able to get a slower curing time epoxy . I know Envirotex is mentioned a lot , perhaps that is slower .
I also colour my epoxy with chalk (scraped to a dust with a stanley knife , i think this might be making the epoxy set quicker , but for how i am using it i am able to get a deep colour that works well with the glitter . I started trying to use acrylic paint but that was a bad idea the epoxy wasn't curing fully with that and remained a little rubbery .
I'm not able to load up photo's but i think it could work for you . If you tried it first on a bit of scrap with some of the Poundland glitter and a tube of there epoxy you have lost a grand total of a few quid and not a lot of time lost . Could be worth trying .
Manson make a MB model with sprinkled glitter finish. it works with ordinary lacquer too, just sprinkle it onto a wet coat and lacquer over
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OP's idea sounds awesome. I wanna see it.
And I would totally rock this:
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Even if it looks to be a piece of shit as an instrument.
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I didn't think i would be the first to use it for guitar purposes , i just saw it in Poundland and had a light bulb moment . I don't use any of those photo websites so not so easy to put photo's on here , if i could add one on like an email attachment then i would do it that way .
I colour my epoxy for a couple of reasons , obviously it adds colour which is good on plain alluminium enclosures , you can mix a bit and be a bit subtle , it hides imperfections and it seems to take the sparkle away (also depends on how shiny the glitter is) . I don't want my pedals looking like they have been vajazzled or fancy fingernails , i try to go for a metallic look rather than glittered . It is a crap shoot how they come out but you can just go over them again with another layer if they come out like junk . I have now been trying the powder coated enclosures from Tayda , i don't think there coating is that tough so epoxy over the top is great , also there colours are not so good so i use the chalk to change the shade on the top . I have tried painting and also swirling (never again to much hastle) This is the easiest method i have found and you don't have to be concerned about damaging the finish after the hard work.
Hope i'm not derailing to much here . The lacquer idea might work better on a larger area as i would imagine it would give you more time to work , but would it be as tough ? That's why i changed to epoxy from painting , rattle cans seem to soft a finish for me .
If you did go down the glitter route you could get your daughter involved with the sprinkling it could make her more interested in the guitar as she had a part in it also .
although your post did make me think a resin top with things inside it could be a fun way to go
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That looks cool , is it a real guitar or a mock up ? Perhaps it needs a my little pony figure in there (maybe not) . If it's real it probably took an awful lot of time and effort to make it look tasteful .
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I've seen a similar idea used on a dining table where there were wood shavings suspended into the resin, they had to keep flipping it over to make sure they didn't sink.
I saw posters for the latest MLP film today.
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