| The goal here at
paintmyaxe is to deliver a guitar finish that has both
brilliant colors as well as a high tech polished look. In
addition, our finishes are executed with the very thinnest
possible build that will preserve the natural tone of the guitar. Many paint
shops use a heavy coating of paint in their process / methods for the
sake of fast production speed, and their finishes end up looking thick
and plastic. The
tonal character of a guitar that has a finish like this starts to take
on the sound quality of the paint rather than the natural tone of the
woods.
While we use modern coatings as well as traditional ones, all the
various layers of the paint, regardless of material, are kept to strict
thickness limits. Polyester and polyurethane get a bad rap from factory
work that is applied heavy in order to speed up large scale production.
Here at paintmyaxe we treat those materials just like old time lacquer
and go light and easy while coating the guitars in the
spray room. Many of our sanding, leveling and polishing stages
then need to be laboriously done by hand to ensure that we dont remove
too much material too fast, and that we meet our final thickness
requirements. It
is possible to have an ultra modern finish on your guitar that is both
brilliant and durable, but ultra thin. This requires a very skilled
craftsman, a painstaking process and an above average attention to
detail. Thats the name of
the game here at paintmyaxe. |
