How To Paint A Matching Headstock

Or if you ve built your own guitar you may just want to finish up the paint job.

How to paint a matching headstock.

I m painting the headstock black to match the colour of the body. An easy way to match your existing paint color is to simply take a knife and peel off the top layer of paint says scott specker owner of five star painting in suwanee and alpharetta ga. Pretty straight forward job. In the last couple of years i ve had about five different colors that i ve needed matched three of which were old behr paint mixes and none have matched despite repeated attempts to re match.

I sort of thought i would need to sand it down to the bare wood surface first for the paint to stick. Each works a little differently but. Few tips hints and tricks. I always have loved the custom color fender guitars with painted headstocks and so i ve decided to paint both headstocks to match the bodies.

The process and materials used are much the same as when painting the body of a guitar on a smaller scale. Although many models of guitar will have a plain varnished headstock you can paint yours to match the body of your guitar. Just to clarify i don t need to sand anything off the headstock just apply the paint and gloss on top of it. Sadly color match is incredibly unreliable and in my experience hd associates don t transfer old label info they will do a color match of the old paint.

At the moment there is a thin layer of gloss on top of the wood.