Fiesta Red with Sparkle

[sheendigs]

Has anyone painted a Fiesta Red with sparkles??
I am into the project of painting a Stratocaster body with that.
I have the fiesta red paint..what would be the best sparkle to use?
Any suggestion with a company name product?
Thanks a lot
Sheendigs

[derekdelboy]

Just a suggestion  ( my days as a sprayer are well over !! )

Mix any sparkles in your lacquer not the paint because  if you need to flatten your base coat then it will be easier without the sparkles in it ... depends a lot on the sparkles of course !! .. lol

Derek

[sheendigs]

Hi Derek
This is what I was thinking the paint first and then the lacquer with sparkles.
I inquired here with a luthier...but he does not seem to be in accordance.
I will try a car paint shop..they are most accustomed to sparkles.
Sheendigs

[sandra]

You need to get a mettalic base coat from a car paint supplier then finish with a clear lacquer or you could use a pearlescent paint, which is really more like a tinted lacquer so that, as I found out to my cost many years back, each coat you add deepend the colour making it impossible to blend a repair by fading the spray outwards, as you could do with solid or mettalic paints.

I would still do as Derek says and spray a clear lacquer over it so as not to get silver streaks if you rub down to any mettalic parts.

www.stardustcolors.co.uk/153-pearlized-paints

[sheendigs]

Hi Sandra
Thanks for the link. I have learned many interesting things when one paints a guitar body (which has already a base paint).
One sands lightly it with P500 abrasive.
One can use flake paint with 0,22 metal flakes. (one tablespoon to one quart of clear coat)
Flakes are mixed in a transparent binder or varnish applied by a spray gun or mini flake buster.
Those flakes are sprayed until the background is covered.

You can see what is the technique and the use of this Mini Flake Buster
youtu.be/eG-MJpGC164

The surface is very rough and they need to be varnished with at least 6 body top coats.
One can also use coloured flakes.

I am very thankful to Sandra and I will try the suggestion given in the link.
www.stardustcolors.co.uk/blog/tutorial-how-to-paint-a-guitar/

Sheendigs