What colour should I paint My ESP?

[Roobubba]

well, given that both Jonathan and WezV are luthiers, you could just ask them directly? :)

One thing's for sure, these guys produce some absolutely stunning work (like the burst top on that tele, and this coming from a tele-hater!!)!

Roo

[FELINEGUITARS]

I wasn't proposing binding because the edges of the ESP are already rounded over and because fitting binding to an existing guitar would be very tricky.

More i was suggesting bursting the colour in to a dark colour that hides the join at the edges of the body.
I also suggested the veneer shown because I have lots in stock

Also veneers:

[WezV]

yeah, the body edges is a tricky one  (nothing a bit of filler wouldnt solve :P ) but i saw it as a way to get the gun metal and a normal trans black togther with a nice seperation between the two, i really like that gunmetal finish jonathan posted :twisted:


that would be an expensive job though because of the work involved  in installing a simple strip of binding into a complete guitar and it all comes down to personal taste anyway...

as jonathan has shown above - veneers dont need to look cheap!!!

[Sifu Ben]

I just shot my load over that Tabby, and i'm not even a Tele guy  :oops:

[ToneMonkey]

I just shot my load over that Tabby, and i'm not even a Tele guy  :oops:

Errr, that'll decrease the valueuntil it's cleaned off.

How about a material finish?  There's some material with cowboys on which I did consider using for one of my Cigar Box Guitars (the missus likes it).

Essentially lay a piece of material over the top and poly over the top, bit more involved but not too difficult.

EDIT: Here's a link: http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/mat.htm

[gwEm]

fool!! the intense torquoise is great  :twisted:

other options:

shocking pink
magenta
luminous yellow
gingataff avatar green
zebra stripes
black with airbrushed dragons
white (if you must be fancy and tasteful ;) )

[Twinfan]

I love it just how it is   :oops:

[Philly Q]

fool!! the intense torquoise is great  :twisted:

other options:

shocking pink
magenta
luminous yellow
gingataff avatar green
zebra stripes
black with airbrushed dragons
white (if you must be fancy and tasteful ;) )

Yeah, I'd go with white, pink, yellow, seafoam green (or whatever it is now) or... baby blue.

Let's face it, drag it out of the closet, it is a hair metal guitar   .  Pretending it's anything else is like me pretending to be a gangsta rapper (and I have only to look at that c--k Tim Westwood to see what a bad idea that is....)

[FELINEGUITARS]

I just shot my load over that Tabby, and i'm not even a Tele guy  :oops:

Yeah - that had an Australian/Tazmanian Blackwood veneer front ion an alder body. In a lot of ways it looked like hawaiian Koa.
That sold to someone who already had one of our guitars that i built for him
Sometimes one isnt enough :twisted:

[ilÿti]

Just don't change the finish but add pink pickup covers - perfect!

:O)

Paul Gilbert is proud of you.



But he's very unimpressed with everyone else in this thread.

[Will]

In a lot of ways it looked like hawaiian Koa.
That sold to someone who already had one of our guitars that i built for him
Sometimes one isnt enough :twisted:

I honestly thought it was at first glance

[WezV]

In a lot of ways it looked like hawaiian Koa

I honestly thought it was at first glance

they are VERY similar, so similar you can use them on the same guitar and not realise its different woods

here is a thin tazzy top i have with a koa headplate


the koa usually has less of the dark streaks that the taz has but but you can see how close the colours are  and although these dont match perfectly, you can get more variation than this in the same species, hell,  even in the exact same tree!

[opprobrium_9]

ick, i will never understand this obsession with garish colors of a queer persuasion on guitars :roll: :? PDT_047

That Paul Gilbert guitar has to be the worst out of the lot of "80's" ideas on this thread.  Consequently the only tasteful guitars on this thread are those that Feline posted, thanks for bringing a little bit of decency into this thread Feline ;) - it really eased the pain of the rest.  By the way, the top on that tabby is astoundingly beautiful!

[Catalyst77]

ick, i will never understand this obsession with garish colors of a queer persuasion on guitars :roll: :? PDT_047

That Paul Gilbert guitar has to be the worst out of the lot of "80's" ideas on this thread.  Consequently the only tasteful guitars on this thread are those that Feline posted, thanks for bringing a little bit of decency into this thread Feline ;) - it really eased the pain of the rest.  By the way, the top on that tabby is astoundingly beautiful!

I know I may have started this thred but the only reason i have a garish guitar is cause it plays like a dream and sounds awesome!

Ultimately thats more important i guess.  I would like to tone the thing down but i'm not really prepared to fork out over £400 to do it

Guess I need to find myself a whitesnake tribute band!

BTW here's my other ESP:

[WezV]

I would like to tone the thing down but i'm not really prepared to fork out over £400 to do it

a basic respray to another colour will work out less than that wherever you go... but as soon as you start looking at differnt options things start to add up

I know i suggested a gun metal finish on back and neck with binding and a black burst flame maple top but that would be an ideal for me and certainly cost a lot of money to actually achieve ( well over £400 i would expect, because i always want the stuff that is a bitch to do)

at the end of the day just spraying it a solid colour (like black, or dark blue or grey, or even pure white  for instance) needn't cost you 400 smackaroonies


but the guitar is naturally quite 80's and it might be best to embrace that