Decorating my acoustic
Téa-Louise Smith
I am about to buy an acoustic guitar, but I plan on decorating it with
decoupage or painting it, or something similar. Could someone please let
me know how this will affect the tone etc of the guitar, and, if it
does, how to compensate, and which make of guitar I should buy to do
this etc...
All the best
Téa
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Dennis Salguero
the guitar - giving it a deeper, more resonant tone. in the past i have used
"Sharpie" markers - do you have these in Australia? Basically, they are a
set of permanent markers that come in a variety of colors. they are probably
your best bet if you dont want to significantly change your guitar.
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Corky The Pig
If you ask me, you are getting a cool looking guitar with a lovely deep
sound.
I painted my guitar in folk art with acrylic paints and it not only looks
cool, it sounds very cool.
I say go for it!
BK
that was neon-green with a pile-depth of three inches. It took about four
cans of 3M #90 permanent spray adhesive to stick it all down. It sure gives
a deep-resonant sound now. The only regret that I have is that I keep losing
picks- they seem to disappear down into the fur and I can't find them!
Dan Mo
how often do you have to vacuum yer guitar? and can you get those "vacuum
lines" in it?
D
That which does not kill me makes me stronger. - Nietzsche
Alan Marshall
<tea...@iinet.net.au> wrote:
>Hi :-)
>
>I am about to buy an acoustic guitar, but I plan on decorating it with
>decoupage or painting it, or something similar. Could someone please let
>me know how this will affect the tone etc of the guitar, and, if it
>does, how to compensate, and which make of guitar I should buy to do
>this etc...
>
>All the best
>
>Téa
>****************Téa-Louise Smith*************************
>
> "Wasting time its just like anger
> no object, no friend of mine
> Here we are, and we're angry
> and we're wasting time"
>
>
>ICQ: 21859695
>AOL: TealouAus
>
>pages:
>http://fly.to/wildplums - Lisa Loeb guitar tablature
>http://www.tea.smith.net - personal site
>
>********************************************************
>
BADLY
Best Wishes, --
Alan Marshall
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Dave Morefield
rural landscape scene painted on the back. The guitar may have been a Simon &
Patrick; I'm not sure. Whatever it was, the artwork was tastefully done and
made me wonder why all of that effort for something that would not be seen by
one's audience while playing.
As I recall, it had a decent sound, and, more important, the paint job was
allegedly done by the manufacturer. If so, someone on this NG can probably tell
us what kind of paint would be used for such a purpose, or at least someone will
know which (Candadian, I think) manufacturer sold decorated guitars about ten
years ago. The advantage of buying a guitar that already has artwork on it is
that you get to see how it turned out before making the commitment.
BTW, since then I've figured out that painting the back probably has much less
effect on the sound than painting the top. I would guess that sound won out
over aesthetic presentation.
Yours truly,
Dave Morefield
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