As some here know, my wife and I are a team, I build and renovate electric and electro-acoustic guitars that she (an artist) then uses as a canvas for her mixed-media artwork. One of the guitars we're currently working on is an LP Junior which gives a decent-sized clear space on which she can work.
Our treatment this time is to be an all-over denim effect in paint. She will then paint onto the guitar the image of part of the trousers. The rivets which are so much an element of denims will be real rivets embedded in the body.
My question is simply to ask if anyone on the forum has tried to create the image of worn denim cloth. Our approach so far is to spray a deep blue base across the body over which we shall spray a light blue coat through a mesh of some sort.
If anyone has a better solution we'd be very grateful.
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For obvious reasons - quite apart from the accuracy of detail - we're not going to put the artist's name anywhere near where the guitar might be held on stage!
there is a darker Kramer New Jersey guitar too like the front of the album cover which features more black than white in the mix , check out the album cover
Would need some testing, but I've had perfect fabric imprints from leaving a guitar on a tablecloth when it wasn't fully cured. That was with Halford lacquer that stays soft far too long. Totally not what I was after
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Similarly to what Wez has said, you could also try pressing damp denim that has been soaked in thinners/acetone. Not such that its wet but enough that the solvent softens the finish.