IN THIS ISSUE:
1. Making The Templates Work For Whatever Body Shape
2. Today's Q & A: Your Questions Answered
3. Become A PYOG Affiliate
4. SPECIAL OFFERS FROM PYOG

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1. Making The Templates Work For Whatever Body Shape

These photos to the right were sent in to me by PYOG customer, John Papanikolaou. He used the TIGER template which I have available as a package of templates (see all available guitar templates here), and altered it to work on a Rhoads-style V.

I get a lot of people asking me if the templates will work on other body styles other than those that they were created for. As you can see, Pappy had no problem extending the design and making it work.

What's also cool is that he used the technique I describe in the TIGER book on how to create the sunburst edges and he applied the technique to this V shape.

This shows me that anyone can apply what they learn in my books, and with a little bit of ingenuity, they can apply it to just about anything they want to do. Pappy is relatively new to painting guitars - but he's not afraid to take chances, and that's cool. To me, what he did he is very impressive.

Whenever I have a customer do something that they did on their own without anyone's help, I like to share that with all of you as a way to say, Hey - check this out! he did it - you can do it too.

Now, if any of you have a great design in your head, but you're having a hard time getting it down on paper (maybe your drawing ability is not up to par), for a small fee, I can help you with that design. Just send me an email - let me know what you want to do and we can go from there.

 

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3. TODAY'S Q&A: Your Questions Answered

Q: Hey John - I've been trying to do a great job with my spraying technique, but I keep getting a very uneven texture to my paint. It'll look great in one section, and then, it'll get all uneven. Is this going to affect my final finish at all?

A: Good question - it's something that I'm sure pretty much everyone experiences when applying paint - even me. For example, I was spraying something the other day and it happened to be a day where the winds were gusty (I spray outside). What was happening was, as the wind would blow, it would alter my paint spray. So, I ended up with some uneven texture as you can see in FIG A.

So, is this bad, you may be wondering?

Not really. For this design, I'm applying black as my final color, then clear, so I could fix that texture with either of those very easily. But let's say that you had this texture when applying your clear coats. Let's say that on your LAST coat of clear, you got this uneven overspray happening. Will it affect the final finish?

Not at all. If you have my book, the finishing steps I've outlined fix ALL flaws in your paint work. Remember that.

Although you should strive to put on nice, even coats of paint, if you happen to get some uneven overspray on the surface, do NOT lose any sleep over it. You'll fix all of that using my finishing steps.

 

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3. Become A PYOG Affiliate

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