I heard Jeff Kiesel talking about crackle finishes in an interview he did. He said something about,..if you wanted more reveal on your crackle,...you had to add more activator to your base color. I don't know what that means,...I just remember him saying it.
Crackle seems to be an effect caused by layering dissimilar types of paint that chemically react with each other. I've done it myself accidentally trying to get just the right shade of pickup covers for a build. Odds are Kiesel is mixing all their own stuff in-house, and thus can control the "activator" in the basecoat - which is likely the active ingredient that reacts with the crackle coat (I'm not a paint expert). In this video it looks like he's using a pre-mixed rattle can crackle paint, and thus may not have that level of control over how the paints react with each other. Jeff Kiesel is a third generation luither whos' personal specialty is custom paint jobs, so its not surprising he knows a few crackle tricks.
@@normbarrows Yeah. I'd say your correct. I didn't factor in him using rattle cans. I do know that they sell a 3 stage crackle finish system from PPG that's for auto applications,.....and my buddy got it and tried it on an old Stew Mac strat body he had,...and it turned out incredible. The only thing that was of concern,...oddly enough,... was the weight it added. We didn't weigh it before hand but we assumed it was around 7 to 8 lbs. After applying the 3 stage crackle finish it weighed 10.8lbs. We were absolutely floored. You could tell as soon as you picked it up,..it was substantially heavier. Now,...the amount of clear that was applied was substantial,...and the orange base coated had to be very thick in order to cover properly. It looked great,...but would definitely detract from tonal characteristics.
Using that amount of filler to fill a pickup hole! Create a wooden plug to match the hole, glue it in and use filler to take up the slack in the small gaps.
This washburn looks so good! I didn't expect the guy to want to block the floyd rose. The way I see most of the people who don't like them are people who had a bad floyd. The Gotoh floyd and the Schecter's Floyd 1000 series are the best that I tried so far.
Welcome back Mark, very cool to see that trash to thrash is back and that was an awesome guitar I already can't wait to see next week's episode that was awesome stay safe stay happy stay well and rock on and please don't stop doing what you love to do because I believe that you inspire a lot of people including myself definitely much love and respect.
Appreciate your channel brother. I attempted to dip my toes in the guitar customization pool. It’s quickly becoming an addiction. I’ve currently got a Jackson warrior that’s going to need to be resanded and brought back to square one as the paint just won’t dry. So I’ve been watching as many tutorials as I can to prepare for round 2.
Awesome finally trash the thrash is back! Can’t wait for 2 o’clock to come around to watch a new episode and that’s solar crackle looks sick, great job mark can’t wait to see what the rest of the season holds for us, you are an inspiration to us hobbyist that like to mod our guitars including myself keep up the great work bro rock on 🤘🏻 🎸🎶
Ha! What a coincidence! It's not a Solar V, but this year I started rebuilding a Washburn elctric that I picked up a while back as a project guitar. I'm turning an HSS with a Strat-style bridge into a single pickup axe with a Floyd Rose!
I have an old Washburn, X7R Pack, I only have the guitar, but in the past you would find a pack with guitar, amp etc... I'm not using the stock pickup, but the guitar was a nice surprise, actually is kind of nice, the neck is not as thin, and it feels very confortable! This solar washburn V is awesome, really beautiful! I'm glad the crackle is back! Very nice finish !
I bought a brand new Jackson X series King V about 9 years ago that came with stock EMGs and it had a ground wire on the trem claw so I snipped it off.
Came here because of Ola.... But..... I've got a Yamaha rgz 421 from the early 90's that I've always wanted to modernize by removing the middle single coil and leaving the factory humbuckers. It's a teal finish, I'd like it in a satin green.
My guitar teacher,...Steve Kaufman,....had a 100% original 1928, 00-8, Parlor acoustic with a slotted headstock. It has had a re-fret,...but what pre-war acoustic hasn't??lol??One of the best sounding small bodied acoustics I've ever played. Plays amazing as well.
Great video bro. Love the work you do! One thing tho, is I wouldn’t say that Dime is the most notable Washburn player. Nuno has been playing them for like 30 years. He has the N2 and the N4. Also designed a couple LP style guitars with Washburn. Again, thanks for the great content bro! 🤘
That's a very good point. In my opinion overall Dime still has bigger name and impact but considering all the points you said Nuno is Washburns top artist. Sort of like Slash is to Gibson or Vai with Ibanez.
Welcome back and LOVE your work. I was looking at how many subs you had and was surprised at the number. You should have half a million easy. Due to the quality of work and video. Hoping your channel grows in a huge way this year. I'm going to share this video with all my friends and ask them to subscribe. Maybe you could do a guitar give away centred around this type of marketing/promotion. I live in Australia so to forget to include all countries. Keep up the fantastic work.... cheers mate.
If I'm not mistaken one of the guitar players from Shadows Fall played a Washburn guitar and there's a few other metal groups that played Washburn guitars besides Dimebag Darrell the guitar player from Shadow Falls and I'm not mistaken one of the members that used to be in Black Label Society believe you played a Washburn guitar
If you dont mind what lime green paint do you use? I used a lime green when I built my desk but it took soooo many coats so I was wondering if theres a better option. I wanna say mine was krylon or something lime green.
@@johnmarden5935 Correct, and that is something that Mark would normally have done, but it was already filled with filler when he received it. If you look at some of his past videos it shows him filling holes with a block of wood.
Hey I have a 61 or 63 completely stripped down les Paul Jr but it looks like the SG and I was going to get it working for a friend of mine how do I get help from someone like you do get it playing again with a few mods to it
