Refinishing my Yamaha RBX775 - help me decide !

[RAY AGAINST THE MACHINE]

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='527651' date='Jun 29 2009, 12:39 PM']Agreed! They all look good IMO.

For me it would be Aqua, Yellow or Lime[/quote]

+100 ..or even with a check style like the DEAN CABBY BASS

[escholl]

[quote name='lemmywinks' post='527651' date='Jun 29 2009, 12:39 PM']For me it would be Aqua, Yellow or Lime[/quote]

+1, love the yellow a lot.

[Buzz]

Orange was my choice as metallic orange looks lush, but it's now relegated to 2nd, metallica lime would be awesome.

[Lylodile]

Lime Or Yellow I think. Yellow looks the best .

[budget bassist]

lime or aqua never liked anything yellow

[steve]

[quote name='Stylon Pilson' post='527826' date='Jun 29 2009, 03:42 PM']What about a 2-tone burst in purple and orange?

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Now that's jaw-droppingly gorgeous, I'm sure you'll agree.

S.P.[/quote]

written down, I'd have thought ugh, but in the picture it looks great - almost ritter-esque

[Tait]

aqua or lime i think.

[Jobiebass]

[quote name='Buzz' post='521795' date='Jun 23 2009, 03:41 PM']Orange.

Or go the doodle route and go flip-paint.[/quote]


I wanted flip paint for mine, purple into a burnt orange. Spoke to the car paint place who said id need to mix up 3-4 liters if I wanted it to flip a lot. but as its nearly £100 a liter and I dont think I used 1/4 of a liter to do mine, its a bit of a waist. I did find some cool paint though @ Autopaint. you get this effect...
im thinking doing a white undercoat for my next project, or maybe an orange under the purple.

[Matty]

[quote name='EBS_freak' post='527531' date='Jun 29 2009, 11:03 AM']Not true. You won't get the colours like that from Humbrol paints... and you certainly won't get anywhere with a bucket of water. You'll need a bit of borax for a start... Everybody's an expert it seems. Have you even ever tried swirling?[/quote]
Yes i have ta.

Did quite a bit of it when doing pottery
Ok, I may have over simplified it, but all I was pointing out is that its not beyond mere mortals

Didn't mean to cause offence.

Matt

[Machines]

Thread resurrection !

Haven't touched this for nearly a year and it's about time I got it finished. Alas I resprayed a couple of months ago in a fantastic gun metal grey metallic, only for the paint to craze on me a whole 4 weeks after putting a clear gloss top coat on (no pics i'm afraid).

A complete resand later (that stuff is TOUGH) and back to the bare wood. I've since decided to go for a solid colour and have primed it back up - but I actually think it looks pretty damned good in pure white.. what do we think ?

[Truckstop]

Yeah man, white looks the wick!

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[EdwardHimself]

the white looks Gr8. Kind of wished I'd kept my bass in white primer since the clear solvent seemed to ruin it unfortunately.

[Machines]

It's obviously flat white at the moment, but I think it would be better in a gloss white. Not sure if just putting a normal gloss coat over the top will be hard enough or need a top coat of any variety. Anyone more experienced in this care to assist ?

[Stylon Pilson]

Keep it flat, it looks like an Extra Strong Mint.

S.P.

[charic]

Put The trebor logo on it and leave it as is

Edited September 10, 2010 by charic

[skej21]

The white looks awesome! Especially on the headstock where it's part white and part black

+ 1 for the "leave it white" idea.

[Machines]

Then it shall be done. I'll do the final sanding today, might pick up some gloss white from the shops and get spraying if it's not too windy outside !

Next thing will be what to do with the headstock, do I put a Yamaha logo back on it (with those inkjet printable waterslides), make my own logo or leave it blank ?

[Daquifsta]

I cut my own headstock logo from Black sticky back vinyl (from Homebase). It was a bit fiddly, to be honest, and the material is thicker than a normal transfer, but you don't end up with a clear border round it, because I personally hate that. I can try and describe the process, if you want?

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The rest of the guitar (a P style kit by SAGA) looks like this, that's a Honda colour 'Imola Orange pearl metallic'

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Having said all that, I really like the white, especially the white/ black headstock :-)

[Machines]

I think a Yamaha logo would be too fiddly for that method, looks good though .

Just overexposed a stock pic of a silver model and this is what the end result should look like, except without frets and nasty roto strings .

[pantherairsoft]

Hope the finish comes up that sharp. Looks lovely.

I imagine the loo would indeed be fiddly via the above method... But worth a go I'd say!

[gilmour]

For the logo you can buy water transfer paper. Print logo onto it. Cut closely around the edge. Stick on, then apply loads of layers of clear to even out.

If you want to retain the matt look then you can get matt spray on varnish

[Brave Sir Robin]

Yeah the Trebor mint looks is actually quite nice! Maybe not so nice for keeping it clean though.

[Truckstop]

Especially if the "loo" is as "fiddly" as Pantherairsoft fears!

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[bartelby]

I like the white too.

I recently started a refin on my Dean. Original plan was to send to body to my artist mate in Australia to paint, but that would have cost about £150 in shipping alone.
So I decided on matt black.

Went from this:
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to this:
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to this:
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Still needs a bit of sanding back and a few more coats.

[Machines]

First gloss coat done, looks good - managed to get it in yesterday before it hammered it down. Anyone got any suggestions on how to finish it better to try and get rid of the 'orange peel' ?