Tips for Spray Painting a Guitar Body 

I love your painting videos you explain and show every thing in a way that anybody should be able to understand.

This is the video I’ve always wanted from your channel.

I bought this paint rig based on your recommendation. Weather is starting to warm up so it is almost paint season again so I get to see how well it works. I am looking forward to using it!

Always good to watch and to be reminded of.

Excellent video as always Brad !!

Man Thanks for the tips and I got My Spin Twist paint Rig a few weeks back and I’m excited to paint with it. 👍👍🎶🎶🎸Thanks Bro.

Hey I caught your channel from watching your shorts, lots of great information, I’m going to be repainting two of my basses and staining another one, you’ve provided me with a lot of good advice, thank you.

Absolutely stunning content again, Brad! Still can't wait to see your PGK build finished, and then your plans on the 2nd PGK you mentioned!

Thanks Brad. Great painting class.

Thanks so much for making this video! definitely using this for my Stratocaster build!

Thank you for your time and expertise.

Thank you Brad. Very good info.

Just about to sand and spray an Unsung Epiphone V that I stripped overt the last few weeks. Really helpful, thanks!

Awesome video. I will check out Oxford as I have a bare wood kit guitar to paint and I wanted a quality paint system from start to finish. Thank you for a great video.

Gotta love the Brad!!!!👍

Thank you so much for your video !!

Thankyou Brad --appreciate --

Very impressive for a rattle can, nice work as usual.

Just a great video folks

Hey Brad.,nice job thx....👍

If only I could find a channel now for good information on wiring guitars and different configurations. I've looked everywhere and the best I could find was a stewmac video on making one of their kit guitars.

Thanks Brad! Can you make a similar video on spraying metallics step by step? Would you increase the distance from the body when spraying metallics as apposed to spraying Primer(as you spray in this Video)? And spray all the coats light?

nice tips thx

Thanks for the video Brad, the TTG guys wrapped tin foil around their 'spin twist' to keep it from getting painted - Cheers

I was wondering if You could help Me, I have a black gloss Washburn Parallaxe that has the Stephen’s Extended Cutaway and 5 way bolt Buzz Fieten tuning System. Same as most if not all Nuno Bettencourt guitars. Do You recommend this and can I paint over the Black? If Not I’m Just gonna do pin strips on the upper

Hi Brad, great tips as always.I wanna do my Stratocaster in daphne blue form Oxford and clear coat it with 2k car rep.How long for the Nitrocellulose to cure before I can clear coat with the car rep.Thanks.

Thanks for all the helpful videos. I used them as a guide and got a good consistent coat of metallic Burgundy Mist. Now I'm thinking about making it into a maroon burst. Should I stick with Oxford's metallic line or will transparent nitro's like Tobacco brown and heritage red work overtop of the metallic burgundy?

Yup everybody does this when recording but especially after going through covid it’s fine to talk through a mask or just do a voice over in production.

Hey man I appreciate this so much !! It seems like you respond so I thought I’d ask , I’m making a custom shop a lot like John mayers and I see they spray something on the body before they spray black , would I need to spray anything on the guitar before the guitar lacquer???

I’m about to do my fourth custom guitar and I want to paint the top one color, and the back and sides another. Do you have any tips as to how I should mask it off, or whether I should spray the top first, or the sides/back first? It’s an Ibanez RG120 so it has a pretty tight radius on the edges and relatively flat top

Anyone know how I can get an antigua finish?

Would you recommend using a sanding sealer or primer when making a heavy relic custom shop ??

Do you have something that screws right into that spot the neck connects to?

Would you ever use a water-based laquer for a guitar or piano?

Brad, when repainting a body should it be sanded down to the wood or just to the protective poly? Then whats the timeline with primer, my color and 2k clear? I was thinking applying primer 2-3 coats, let dry 24 hrs, apply color 3 coats, 10 min apart, let dry a week, then 3 coats 2k clear and let dry for a few weeks before sand/buff/polish.

Hi Brad, as a guitar player for 40 years I am on my vert first guitar restoration project from here in glorious Scotland, 👍😁just a wee question for you mate, I have sanded the guitar body, added a coat of primer, sanded and then painted, it seems smooth but do I have to fine sand again for the clear coat to adhere to the paint??? Cheers...Stephen.

because it's lacquer, can I wet sand it with like 1000 grit and then buff it like I would an automotive paint job?

Where do I find that painting rig?

@bradangrove Hi Brad, I would like to pimp a guitar as a project for a RU-vid video on my channel. I actually want to decorate it with blue rhinestones, but I saw a video of someone who did that recommending to spray paint it in the colour of the rhinestones first. Seems sensible. I will be buying the guitar especially for the project, just in case it goes wrong 😅. Thought a blue one might save me the spray painting, but I can’t get the type of guitar I want in blue, so I will buy a second hand one (most likely brown) and then spray paint it blue. I would love some advice on this (and when I do it, I would be more than happy to link your account👍🏻😁). - as I have to go from brown to blue, would you recommend spray painting it white first or isn’t that necessary as I will be covering it all in Rhinestones anyway 😅? - I saw someone mention in the comments that it requires warm weather for spray painting, but I would love to do it in January. Unfortunately, it’s winter here (Europe). Would it work in the cold? Our flat isn’t that big and as I don’t want to poison anyone, I want to do it outside…. Sorry for the long comment, I didn’t know how to describe it shorter 😅. Best wishes, Carolyn

So should i sand it before painting? Amd do i need a primer

Shaken but not stirred....... hahaha. That paint looks good enough to leave it like that. Nice one. Be well...

Do you need to get the paint rig or could you just hang it to paint it

do i have to put oil before the primer? if so what oil?

Brad, have a question for you I am painting a body a pearl white tri coat system with 2k clear. The body is basswood so I didn't grain fill so much, i did a little in bad spots that had tool marks or a lot of pores with drywall mud. I sealed and primed it with 2k epoxy primer. I have all the base and pearl on several coats each. Sanded it a bunch of times after priming sessions and the 1st base session. Im still seeing some small pores / divots in spots do you think the 2k clear would be enough to fill them in or should I sand it back some and redo the pearl first?

what is the common name for that wood primer---/--for Africans?

i got distracted by the electrical work on the wall in the first shot.... it leaves me at a loss for words.

I know u high

Mr Angove where was your P P E I will yell at you about P P E

Dude, fan and a mask. Not worth the risk, even for 2 minutes!

Sh!t vid... Ty

You are crazy spraying nitro without protection. A video ain't worth it.

Almost a shame to cover that wood

if somebody starts his video with 'hey, whats up guys' i just close it...