So... I have been looking at super cheap chinese parts on ebay for no reason really for quite some time. Recently though I have had some jazzmaster gas and I realized the neck from this peavey guitar I've pulled apart would look super cool on a jazzmaster. It is also like a cheap neck so pairing it with a disaster of a basswood body wouldnt feel wrong.
I made some other thread earlier were I asked could get custom parts. After this I realized I should probably just get better at doing shit myself and I feel like finishing is something very intimidating that I really need to get around. I wanna try out nitro finishes because: 1. You can get them in cans from gitarrdelar.se and 2. I have no respect for any instrument I own and nitro is supposed to look good when you beat it and scratch it and not like chunk off.
What I'm really asking though if its possible to put on two or more layers of nitro in different colours and have them not chip down to the wood immediately. What I wanna do is get the look of a guitar where the original finish has been painted over like alot of relic guitars have but not doing any relicing and wear it down like the awful guitar owner I am. There is some butt ugly James Hetfield ESP that gets this pretty well but its like different shades of shit-colour. This should work right and not just wear down to the wood directly since nitro is kinda glossy so the paint shouldn't stick that well? Should I use more paint than suggested for a normal finish? I read 1 and a half cans is what is required so if i get one of each I feel I should be set. Kinda worried about the paint glowing through cause I want the top layer to be white and have red underneath.
I know I shouldn't really be worried about much cause I'm just building a custom Squire in essence (if even that ) so fucking up isn't that big of a deal since the bodies I have found are like 70 bucks each. I would be nice to have some input though on how to make a crappy guitar look as awful as possible
The shitty ESP btw:
(seriously jesus christ that colour scheme is awful)