I vote against the click bait titling. Be honest, show integrity, and avoid name calling. You guys do some really nice work. Thank you for posting this kind of material for us wanna be painters.

Great stuff! Thank you for taking the time to show how it’s done.

Thanks for the video, I’m listening to you work as I sand my newly build chambered body. I’m getting ready to paint and finish my first home built guitar, I’m pretty sure this is quickly turning into an addiction and I appreciate your content. You have provided me with some detailed knowledge I haven’t found elsewhere (unless I spend 2 hours sifting subreddits).

It’s so much harder than you make it look. Thank you for the tips. I can’t wait to get my hands on one of your guitars.

What a great video, great content! Would love to know more about what guns you are using and at what pressure.

That was great! What an amazing job on that faux binding. There was hardly any bleed through at all! I have to get me some tape like that (and Chris's skills). Thanks again guys!

So cool work Chris!!! Love it!

All in all great stuff, I like how he is explaining very well the processes

Chris, Outstanding. Man I love your technique burst finish!

This is GREAT! BEAUTIFUL work, man! Can you share what gun setup you're using, plz?

Great video . Glad I found your channel . I need to finish my telecaster build . I had trouble getting the correct color I wanted . Cheers

Very slick. Love the masking to give it the bound look.

Man, I'm definitely going to tape off my binding from now on. Thanks for such a clear and great tutorial. This is why I'm a Patron.

One of your best videos yet. Masterful paint job! Thanks!

thanks for the detailed heads up.Keep up the great work.

Great job, you guys! I like your technique! I usually do my sunbursts with a 0.4 nozzle airbrush and finish all guitars with shellac (french polishing.. 150+ coats).

Great video Chris. Amazing work. Thanks 👍

Great video, and timely for me as I’m finishing up a Tele build now. What type of material is the headstock decal made from?

Nice work. I I grew up helping my dad paint and do bodywork on cars . One thing I've noticed most great painters eyeball all their colours. Really good job he would have loved to see this video watching a Job get done correctly 👍👍👍

Nice work, the finished product looked GREAT🎉

Thanks for showing the spraying in real time!

Thanks Chris, great to see it done and really informative

I'm glad the painting process was not sped up. It's difficult to get how fast (or slow) you have to move, how long to hold the trigger, and even to blend over the last line to the new when the process is sped up. So huge thanks to Matt for keeping this process in real time.

Great job Chris, you make it look so easy. Nice presentation too. Lookout Matt! 😆 👍

GREAT video of a REAL paint booth for guitars. I'm betting your paint jobs come out BETTER than many of the big brand factories out there. Great education here for anyone interested in painting guitars.

Apart from the beautiful results and the obvious skills needed what was equally impressive was the smoot pirouette Chris did with the air hose during the painting. You guys continue to educate and entertain us. Thank you

great video- really enjoyed the detail!

great job - looks like good guys, having a good time and doing what you love. Looks fantastic "Macho Man"

Great Job Chris! Very helpful to see all this in real time. Outstanding

Hi Cris & Matt, Now this was a really great educational video. I just retired after 40 years as a high end luxury car dealership automotive painter. I have only done a few guitars. This was super helpful. Your never to old to learn. I love your channel. You guys definitely know quality and great workmanship. Thanks again. Stay safe and well and keep Rocking. Signed John Gregory Zepbass from Munster Indiana.😊😊😊😊😊😊

Always great to see a master at work!

Just beautiful!! Did you pore fill at all?

Very cool techniques. What brand purple spray gun is that used for the burst? And what tapes do you recommend?

Nice job - what guns are you using to shoot the colors? Sata's?

Pretty sweet Chris. You guys look like you turn out a quality product. Thank you and God bless.

Nice finish. I have a Tenor Uke I am building but I think it will just have a satin clear finish. Finishes can take as much effort and time as the instrument itself but they sure can add to the looks....

Being a painter for 45 yrs. This is a nice vid. Your choice of product is top shelf. I believe in acrylic for finish. Auto is good for metal and plastic. As for wood I like something that moves with subtle temp changes poly tends to poly tends to be more fluid. IMO. Nice vid , keep em coming

Great video, as always, a cold beer and a few Texas toast videos and the day looks better. Thanks guys.

Hey Chris, very informative video! Is the clear coat waterborne or solvent base?

Great vid! What pigment do you use for the black headstock?

This is very nice work. That guitar is going to be beautiful, even though it's not what I would have asked for myself before having seen how great it looks.

I use the orange vinyl tape I purswad it with a little heat especially if it's into the curves of a headstock like a dean or fender or what not not alot just enough to get it confiorm.

I have watched both Heritage guitars and Gibson's Tom Murphy shoot a cherry burst Gibson as you know shoot yellow base coat the the cherry over . Where as Heritage do a cherry shade coat and the yellow over my experience shooting yellow over cherry obviously effects the cherry..hence your possible need to over shoot the cherry to darken it! great video !!

Great Video! A few questions: 1.) What are you sanding the sealer coat to prior to this step? 2.) I know before you've said that you use Omni and Delcron produts from ppg, but I can't seem to find them anywhere (discontinued?) What are you using today?

This was great. More of these how to videos please!

As pros who have a system and booth down cold, I would love your design advice for a more modest set up. If you were to build a booth sized for one guitar, and painter, what’s your minimum sizing? How would you build it? What intake and exhaust filters would you recommend? What’s a recommended entry level yet quality gun? Working in a home studio with respect and safeguards for neighbors, what safety/ air quality protections would you advise? What ‘s your reasonable budget for all this? Thanks so much; I’m sure it took years, maybe decades to hone down your technique, equipment and shop. Quite a mountain to climb, thanks for lighting the path.

Great Video, as usual... learned a Lot!! Having said that... at the very end, when you were showing off the guitar... I noticed a very visible "Blotch" right in the near middle of the body. Precisely, it was about half way from the lower Left (when looking straight down from the top) of the pick-up cavity to the outer edge. Great finish, otherwise.

Happened on this by accident. The guy is an artist. Beautiful work. I'll check these guitars out.

I luvvit! I don't have the professional painting stuff, I refinish CHEAP guitar finds with Rustoleum rattlecans. Hobby. I'm anxious now to try the "masking a binding" method on my next Squier Affinity strat. It should work! I think i will spray at lest one coat of flat clearcoat on the guitar curve AFTER excessive sanding to ensure that the strip of tape has a deadly smooth, bleedless surface to seal onto. Thanks for the good video.

great job Chris, mad tape skills for sure.

Modding some tele-type guitars (Glarry, HB) and gathering materials for a Barncaster Esquire-type. I'm going to post these mods on my YT channel in the next couple of months. Gotta say, I've learned a lot of little, but very important things here, on TTG. Thanks, guys! I'm seriously going to pick up one of your Fender types ASAP. Would love to review one.

I LOL'd when Chris said he couldn't remember if he stirred the 2K. It reminded me of a joke where this guy saw his friend jumping up on down a lot. He said "what's going on?" The reply came "I just took my medicine, but it said shake before use on the bottle." This video was really awesome. Watching how Chris does the spraying of the burst had me enthralled. You guys are artists in wood and paint. Thank you for posting stuff like this. It keeps me motivated. I even went back a few years and rewatched the series on doing a fabric top. Great stuff. Did you know that there's another guitar-making KZfaqrs named Matt and Chris as well?

About 20yrs ago I bought a Paul Beard “Dobro”, his bread & butter model and guitar body was bound in natural Maple. Later had Mark Thibeault of Rayco “Resophonic’s”, make me a custom w/Tiger or Quilted Maple & used natural maple as binding w/ Chinese Black Vein Turquoise for the inlays. Beautiful!

The Challenger guitars look great, and this one was one of the coolest. I really want to try one out one day.

Great video..👍🏻 did you go back over the clear coat after you showed us, As i could see a few imperfections in the clear coat when you were moving the guitar about at the end of your video.

You guys are awesome 👌 keep the good videos coming

Chris is fantastic! But Matt knew that! If at any point in the future you do a Truoil finish it would be great to see that! I don’t have a spray booth and all the sparing equipment. Yes, there are videos on YT about truoil, but Chris is THE best painter, so why not! Love from NW Colorado, ya’ll! Thanxz

Hey Matt , What do you guys use for your logo ? Thanks

I disapprove of Matthew experimenting with video titles by way of calling me stupid. Outrageous! However.. The former not withstanding... A fine finishing video indeed. Huzzah! Well done Christopher!

Great work, very nice

Chris is so chill. This was very enjoyable. He’s a natural teacher.

Unfortunately I live in Cali where they have ruined just about any type of finishing product except nitro lacquer. At least I can still get it I think. No naptha, no mineral spirits and any solvent is basically acetone. Including what they call paint thinner. I'm using a UV cure polyester for sanding sealer. It gets you to the paint stage much quicker. It's called Solarez. Thanks to you I now know about Simtec. They also make a UV polyester sand/seal.

Great video guys!

I really enjoyed the video. I stumbled on it by accident . I am 75 and since 1976 I have been involved with guitar design in so far as helping redesign electric guitars for production. I am sure you know how small changes can avoid extra steps and therefore added time to making any new design. I have owned all the classics and on whole feel the most comfortable with both sound and feel of many Gibsons. Like every Gibson guy I have also admired great players of Strats and Tele's. It occured to me that many Gibson players would love a guitar that passed as a 'Fender' but with the neck from nut to heel to be a Gibson spec. In general it's a Tele bridge PU that seems the least strange to ears that like a P90 or HB. There is nothing more Strat than the neck PU or the neck and middle on together. A hardtail bridge is a given. Gibson guys are not big fans of a whammy. A lot of Gibson guys love to boast of their Lp or SG being better than a Tele or Strat so a clone body is a nonstarter. It's a long story but a close friend of Leo's I have known over the decades came to the rescue. I would say who but he is still alive and well known for his own work. He recently retired but the business has gone on to the second generation. There is a prototype sketch from 1953 where Leo took the Tele design and changed the bass wing to something similar to his just completed P. Bass and the treble wing is chopped off much the same as what was used on the Jazz Master years later. The headstock looks very Strat but it is the same size as the Tele. If you are curious I have the prototype so I can send you a pic.

What size nozzles did Chris use for 1) the color coats, 2) the clear coats? Pressure always around 35-40 psi? Any sanding between clear coats? Any buffing after the final clear coat? Very impressive result. Cheers and well done!

Are you going to use conductive paint or copper foil for shielding.

Very nice job guys! Greetings from Greece!

very good video, I only have 2 questions 1 What pressure are you using? 2 which paint gun do you use in this video because I am looking on Amazon Thanks and keep rocking the way of building guitars

Have you guys done a video regarding your paint booth and your filtration system??

Only just started watching your channel, you guys are funny & cool Nice job on the finish really like how that turned out 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Great video gents! I need to give the Tamco paints a spin. I've been a PPG / Matrix guy but there's nothing magic about them. I've heard a ton of great stuff about Tamco. Also, the binding detail you guys are doing looks awesome! Peace and chicken grease!!!

Incredibly cool video. As interesting as this was, I think this was meant for people who already know what they’re doing, and are familiar with the process. There’s a lot of that on KZfaq. People giving more of a clinic, than a “how-to”. But, this turned out beautiful. I’d love to see a video, or even a series on doing this from A-Z (including the sanding). I’m researching how to put a paint job on a set of drums. I’ve got myself in a position to where I can afford the tools, now I’m just trying to get off on the right foot with the fundamentals. This was incredibly interesting.

Graet results! What sealer do you use? thx!

Great to see you guys again. My guitar, "Skulls & Roses", is still amazing as ever. Thx for everything Matt and "The other guy".

I need that support rig for painting!

This was like watching Bob Ross work, early on and in the middle i kept thinking it was messed up but at the end it's a piece of art that is nice enough to hang in a hotel room.

Hi there! Wanted to thank you for your informative video! Dumb question, (because I'm the master of them.) When you paint guitars with some 3D-ish top and want a translucent color. PRS and others use water based stain on a rug and simply wipe and blend, Gibson use a spray gun to make their sunburst. I saw you actually use both methods, When and which timd would you prefer each color application. 2nd. Let's say I want a Matte Finish, is there a Matte Clear Coat?

Wow; Chris does beautiful work! Matt: if you have not invested in a steadicam for you video capture, I highly recommend you do so! (Some of the images were so dizzying! 😂)

Great video. As a painter, I start "off" the piece and finish "off" the piece.

great ! one question, why you dont' use nitro coat?

BEAUTIFUL!

At the end when showing off the finished product, isn’t there a small blemish 2 or 3 inches above the bridge pickup? Great info and outcome though.

THAT'S BEAUTIFUL!!

Where can I get one of those pickup cavity paint rig attachments??

Are you using Tamco Clear? If so, could you share which one?

Which spray guns are you using for bursting?

Really looks good was there a dent in the top of the guitar ? Looks like something was on it when he was showing the finished job. Hopefully it was just a fingerprint or something and not a ding

What did you seal with?

I never bought into the "Lacquer helps the wood breath" mess but I like the way Lacquer looks, yellows and checks/ages. Poly usually looks thick plastic-y as opposed to lacquers hand rubbed fine furniture/less glossy look. At least this is my experience. I am not a pro but I have built a few guitars. The early ones were rattle can poly, later I used rattle can lacquer, now I use lacquer with a gun and I hand sand/polish and it looks so much better to me. The lacquer also seems to sink into the grain a little which gives a more vintage appearance up close.

Nice job on that burst ,

How do you guys put on your logo? Do yall have a link to the products you use?

What brand of intercoat clear are you using? Thanks

39:31 aside from the orange peel in the clear, there's a massive dust nib just to the left of the pickup slot that can be seen from far away at certain angles and some more just by his left hand. Hopefully those were taken care of.. then you can say a million bucks, but until those are fixed, that's looking like a bounced check.

Lovely burst! One tip: try using the 3M 244 gold tape to tape off the fretboard. Leaves less residue behind when peeling off the tape. I often cover that with Stewmac's brown binding tape to protect the fretboard from accidental knocks, but the gold tape is amazing.

The Natural Bind was either PRS or Hamer.

I think you said iwata 400 for the clear... but what gun did you use to shoot the dye/interclear

I have a Jackson bolt on neck that I had a friend paint. He used automotive urethane paint which he uses on moto helmets. I have a water slide decal I want to apply to the headstock, but he says his urethane will likely melt it. Is there something I can put over his finish that I can follow up with nitro lacquer?

Looks good, needs a flat and polish though to remove the orange peel

I have a 72 Telecaster bass body that I want to refinish. I have it sanded down. There are a few areas that have indents. What is recommended to fill them? Grain filler?

Ad natural binding. Do you have problem with rugged edges like PRS does? Even their 10-25k Dragon guitars has them, I heard something about wood straw effect, but Im not sure, can it be done 100% perfect?