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TattooedCarrot showed me this finish that was in the showcase last year for warmoth bodies.
I emailed Gregg to see if they could still do it and he told me they couldn't. It's such a shame. I finally found a paint pattern that I liked for my strat project and it can't be done. I was going to do candy blue flames over top of alpine white, that would have looked really cool, something like this:
well crap, back to the drawing board.

why cant they do it?

Why not get the body from them then do the paint job yourself?

i've decided i hate guitars lol...you can never get what you want hahahajust kidding i love these damn things and can't stop buying them...but finding or building the right one can get tricky at times.

-Mike

I've got some good results useing 3M tape (the Blue 471 ) 1/8 quot; tape. If
you wanna a D.I.Y. Flame job that's the stuff to use.

I'm sure GMW can do it for you.

Or JohnJohn might be able to do it!

or a stencil might be able to do it!

you'd have to find a paint that sticks to poly

Fender had a Tele from the CS that was finished in a similar manner... It was even a Thinline quot;Hollowbodyquot; style.... I wanted that one soooo bad.... When I finally had the loot to by it, MY didnt carry any longer, so I didnt bother trying to look any harder....

Oh well.....

There are lots of places that could probably do that for you if Warmoth can't. It might not even be that much more expensive getting it done elsewhere.

Ryan

It looks good. To bad they don't do it anymore.

Yeah Gregg told me it was done by hand, the masking, the paint guy was experimenting and it would take too long for them to do again. It would probably set back the paint process by too long. If any of you guys can recommend a good finisher who wouldn't charge a fortune to do that, let me know.

Just looks like they taped off the flames, painted, and pulled it off. You can see the wood grain in the flames of the first pic, so I don't see what's so difficult really... I'm sure you could get it done elsewhere.

If it's any consolation, these are currently for sale in the showcase section...
Originally Posted by FretFireJust looks like they taped off the flames, painted, and pulled it off. You can see the wood grain in the flames of the first pic, so I don't see what's so difficult really... I'm sure you could get it done elsewhere.

That's pretty much how you do it. the last flame job i did, I just layed a
piece of paper over the guitar body and drew the flame patten on with a
pencil. Than i cut the flame patten out and layed that on the guitar. Use
that as a rough patten for your tape. Once you get it to your liking, Just
mask the outline off and spray. Spray kinda light cuz' if you spray to
heavy you'll get a hard line that will take lots of clear coat to slurry up.

B2D- I saw those months ago. That's still available but the reason I don't like it is if I went with a two tone paint scheme with that flame stencil the blue would cover the majority of the body instead of white.