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For better use my time when coronavirus outbreak made us home office and go out as little as possible.
Forced myself to kickstart 3 paintings tribute guitar .

First step is to lay down the dark background,  background is fixable, so just go experiment. Think about what to do on top of it afterward .

Step 1 : Play with fire and dye .

https://youtu.be/KuPTr7A-Ut0



this the first time I try  fire and dye .

this how it look after first dye . blue and black look more interesting than red .

this weekend going to sanding and add more lays of dye .

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It’s been 50 years since Jimi Hendrix took the
world by storm with his incredible Monterey Pop
Festival performance, which he concluded with

the sacrificial burning of his now-iconic hand-
painted Stratocaster. Destroyed during the fiery

This is how it look after today sanding:  wood grain pop up

Second dye / colour, I use painting water colour, another kind of experiment .

This is how it looks when wet

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how it looks after dry :

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For Jimi one , try to be psychedelic and purple haze ( the real thing look darker , and coatings would made it dark too )


Here you need a translucent water-based paint with powder to cover the darker color Roasted  Swamp Ash

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Busy for a whole day, exhausted, not going to the details progress , may show later in video .
as coatings would made it darker , has add 3 more layers of sanding / colour and coatings.

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I started to paint after dinner. I only got time drew the pants. The twists are that my acrylic was bought 20 years ago. Many colors are dry. Change to pastel and mix materials.

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How to protect the binding from the torch flame while roasting the wood grain?
Generally I choose to avoid using some binding guitar for Shou Sugi Ban , but Warmoth only do Carved-top for Double Lam Tops , since you ask , I try investigate the possibility.
I will test use Flame Retardant Tape/ Fire Resistant Tape protect binding , something like
https://www.scapaindustrial.com/ ... fire-resistant-tape

( do the test first before do it on guitar )

On edge of guitar , point torch flame in this direction short time repeatedly .