Screen Printing on Guitars

[dolivas]

Does anyone know of any place online or physical where you can get your guitar screen printed on with graphics? If not can I just put paint to guitar and have it all come out modestly fine.

[Uma Floresta]

Originally Posted by dolivas

Does anyone know of any place online or physical where you can get your guitar screen printed on with graphics? If not can I just put paint to guitar and have it all come out modestly fine.

I don't know about screen printing the whole guitar, but plenty of places will do that with pickguards. Google "Custom Pickguards".

[dolivas]

thanks for the info. I guess I shoulda clarified the post. What I want to know would be if there is a place where they can take a graphic design you choose and paint that on the body of your guitar. It would be a total sand and refinish job.

[dagosto]

Welcome to the forum Uma.

Screen printing is pretty easy. I've never made a frame but I have done a lot of the actual printing. I think the only pitfall would be getting the right paint that would adhere to the pickgaurd and/or the wood of the guitar without damaging the screen.

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by dagosto

Welcome to the forum Uma.

Screen printing is pretty easy. I've never made a frame but I have done a lot of the actual printing. I think the only pitfall would be getting the right paint that would adhere to the pickgaurd and/or the wood of the guitar without damaging the screen.

that's what I'm interested in. If it's not too terribly expensive I wish I could transform one of my very generic looking strats into a hip looking psychedelic art machine like this one:



Im just getting tired of the black on black, body-to-pickguard action going on with it right now.

[dagosto]

You know another option is spray painting with stencils. very cheap and can have great results. Make sure to mask the electronics though.

[dolivas]

Originally Posted by dagosto

You know another option is spray painting with stencils. very cheap and can have great results. Make sure to mask the electronics though.

that's what I might try out in the end. Maybe I'll get some of those paints that adhere to plastic, it could produce a cooler more even result I imagine. Thanks dagosto!