Frankenstrat Paint Job On A Wall

Perfect wall art for any music lover or venue! Only selling as a pair. The red guitar is missing a tuning key and has a chip of paint missing on the top end. Can easily be touched up with a metallic paint from Michaels. Selling price reflects this. Originally paid over $200, reduced to $125 to sell.

Frankenstrat paint job on a wall. If I had the urge to build a frankenstrat I would do it about as cheap as Eddie did. As with most, his tone is in his style, not in that guitar. The "joke" is, it was a mutt! Don't get me wrong, as I said, I have a Yammie body waiting for similar treatment and I will go the black/white paint job on it. So far I have about 25 dollars in it. Frankenstrat Design Beach Cruiser: In this how to I will show you how to make a version of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat paint job on a cruiser with my own little touch ups to make it look a bit cooler. c: feel free to make your own changes to your own board and make it unique. It... To paint over an existing finish, first fill any chips with auto body filler. Then lightly sand the whole surface to an even, dull finish with 800 grit sandpaper. This will give the new paint something to grab. Glossy surfaces won’t hold a top coat and will chip or scratch easily. Let any fillers dry for 24 hours. Concept is interesting and it would be fun to see it made properly with a bit more care and attention to detail instead of sloppily slapped on paint and glue. I think it could be really cool. As it is, it's an interesting curiosity that I wouldn't pay anything for.

Look at pics of the black & white version. Start with painting the body black, mask, then paint white. If going for the full RWB, study the finished product, mask over the BW, and paint red. I attempted a couple a while back. Not really satisfied with the results, but it was a learning experience. View attachment 447643 View attachment 447642 Mar 28, 2019 - Explore JF 5150's board "EVH Paint" on Pinterest. See more ideas about Eddie van halen, Van halen, Halen. It is the "banana" or "hockey-stick" style which was distinctly Kramer's, but the paint job is actually based off of Eddie's "5150" guitars which were the single humbucker models without any routing for additional hardware. I just liked that design better (The company logo threads through the horizontal white stripe better). Frankenstrat’s look. If you’re wondering how Van Halen achieved the unique tri-colour paint job, here’s what he did: First, Van Halen painted his guitar entirely black. Then, he applied random pieces of masking tape and painted the guitar white. Finally, Van Halen repeated the taping process and painted the guitar red.

Its black-with-yellow stripes paint job has also been reliced to match the wear and tear from his year of touring, and is stylishly finished off with chrome hardware. Adding to the value and the once-in-a lifetime collector’s nature of this instrument, Eddie Van Halen signed the back of each headstock. Doing so will give the guitar uneven coverage and make it more likely to end up with paint dripping. 6. On the second layer, repeat the above spray technique. However, instead of going in a horizontal pattern, use a vertical pattern. Some paint sprayers have a nozzle that can turn to adjust the flat side of the spray. If so, utilize this. Today I learned of spray paint on sidewalks called “utility graffiti,” which uses colors and symbols to identify pipes and wires underground. Marking the ground wasn’t standard until 1976, when a dig in Los Angeles punctured a gas line and created a “wall of fire” that killed 9 people and destroyed 7 buildings. popularmechanics.com. If you make mistakes during the paint job they can be fixed by wet-sanding the mistake with 320- or 400-grit sandpaper, then respraying. Using automotive spray paint is better than using regular spray paint. To strip the original paint job off a guitar, use aircraft paint stripper; it can be purchased at most automotive stores.

Here is my build of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstrat. It's an iconic guitar! I will say that it isn't perfect, and is still a work in progress,but it sounds and looks great!! - - - Updated - - - I started with an old squier body that I had purchased from a guy who made a parts guitar. I sanded the finish and paint off and got a nice clean base. A Tribute to EVH’s Iconic Frankenstrat. The EVH Striped Series Frankie is a tribute to (although not quite a re-creation of) Eddie Van Halen’s iconic red, black, and white Frankenstrat guitar — complete with a worn-in relic’d finish.. black, and white) paint job with bicycle reflectors.. If you didn't grow up with posters of this. Then go over the entire wall with a couple coats of the red. Remove tape and boom done.A tip for nice lines - once the tape is down, take a small brush and paint over the edge, moving perpendicular to the tape going from the tape to the wall. This will help seal the tape edge.-Terracar. I played around with my CAD a little laying out the wall. Re: My very first Frankenstrat project - WIP I don't know crap about guitars, but I do know what looks cool, and man... that looks cool I really dig the paint job. I always like seeing the masked off vs finished pics so you can see what the artist had in mind when they started.