Just looking for some advice on this. I’ve got a Yamaha Revstar RS320 in copper red which sounds and plays right up there with the best Gibsons I’ve played and it’s my live backup to my LPC - however; I pretty much cannot stand the colour and it’s bugged me for years.
I’m no stranger to guitar refinishing and I’m thinking I’d like to just refinish the top in cream/white (I once bought another of the same
model in white to get around this slightly OCD annoyance, and it was nowhere near as good as this one - like far worse - so this is a bit of a special Unicorn guitar which isn’t just easily replaced with one of the same in a different colour).
So, a few questions - is it advisable? I’d use probably Halfords spray acrylic and clear and scuff then paint, but these guitars don’t have binding so would it be an idea to drop slightly below the top and give the impression of binding to neaten it up?
Has anyone done anything similar, just changed the top colour of a guitar? Would be interested to hear if so.
For reference, the best quote for a complete refinish I’ve had so far is £300 which is twice what I paid for the guitar, so the top-only DIY refinish is both within budget and won’t mess with the neck feel/playability!
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Get used to the colour. When I got my Rickenbacker 4001 bass, in Fireglo, it was probably my least favourite of the standard Rick colours, but I bought it anyway because it was such a good bass. After a while it started to grow on me, and now I honestly wouldn't have it in anything else.
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more go before cracking out the spray paint. Alternatively I could get some black and white tape on it and VH the thing…
Go to the place that supplies paint to repair shops, far superior in every way and a million different colours to choose from. the trade use aerosols far more often than you would imagine....
That shade of metallic red is a Yamaha classic - especially on BB bass models. I concur with ICBM that the colour scheme is secondary to sound and playability. Live with it.
You could achieve some of the same visual impact by changing some of the plastic parts.