How To Paint A Matching Headstock

Taping off then painting black the headstock of my that f ng guitar mim telecaster.

How to paint a matching headstock.

At the moment there is a thin layer of gloss on top of the wood. Each works a little differently but. 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. 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.

Few tips hints and tricks. 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. Although many models of guitar will have a plain varnished headstock you can paint yours to match the body of your guitar. Just to clarify i don t need to sand anything off the headstock just apply the paint and gloss on top of it.

I sort of thought i would need to sand it down to the bare wood surface first for the paint to stick. I m painting the headstock black to match the colour of the body. The process and materials used are much the same as when painting the body of a guitar on a smaller scale. Pretty straight forward job.

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.