Refinishing my Ibanez blazer bass

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1st December 2009

With the blue dye dry I lightly 'dragged' some P400 paper over the body and headstock to remove any little pieces in preparation for clearcoating..

For the headstock and neckplate I had decided to use the name 'ROSACOLE' which is the surname of my 2 sons, (its actually Rosa-Cole) and used some silver metallic push transfers which come on a sheet and you rub the sheet from the front with a pencil or similar object and the transfer sticks to the object at the rear. This came out really well.








2nd December 2009

The screwplate on the rear was scratched and scuffed so I had decided to make this look better. I had already filled it with grainfiller to remove most of the scratches and then sprayed over with black paint. After quite a few layers of black it was sanded as far as P400 and then I added some more push transfers to the rear. RC for ROSACOLE and then a model No PP1-09. I then sprayed the first few layers of clearcoat onto it. I am not using any £15 a can specialist stuff here as I don't see any need for it. I am using £3.29 Wilkinsons Acrylic clear gloss. 4 cans should be enough for the whole project.

The last thing I did was to cut out a silhouette of the guitar from some card and then devise a way to keep it at an equal distance from the face all the way round. This is to get the black to fade into the blue on the face edges. I am using some screw so that I can raise or lower each one to get the card 'mask' an equal distance from the guitar.



















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