How To Paint A Matching Headstock

Many of the larger paint companies including behr and sherwin williams offer mobile apps to make paint matching a breeze.

How to paint a matching headstock.

Few tips hints and tricks. I m painting the headstock black to match the colour of the body. At the moment there is a thin layer of gloss on top of the wood. I feel like it s a little bit of a risk as both headstocks were looking excellent in clear but i d hate to regret not trying to make exactly the guitar i.

Sadly color match is incredibly unreliable and in my experience hd associates don t transfer old label info they will do a color match of the old paint. Each works a little differently but. I always have loved the custom color fender guitars with painted headstocks and so i ve decided to paint both headstocks to match the bodies. An easy way to match your existing paint color is to simply take a knife and peel off the top layer of paint says scott specker owner of five star painting in suwanee and alpharetta ga.

Pretty straight forward job. Just to clarify i don t need to sand anything off the headstock just apply the paint and gloss on top of it. The process and materials used are much the same as when painting the body of a guitar on a smaller scale. Or if you ve built your own guitar you may just want to finish up the paint job.

In the last couple of years i ve had about five different colors that i ve needed matched three of which were old behr paint mixes and none have matched despite repeated attempts to re match.