Here are some pictures of the white coat after it was finished. Everything is going pretty well so far and the white is looking great. This color by itself looks really good. I can’t wait to see it with the red and black. At this point I have applied about 3-4 coats of white […]
Author: Brandon
How To Paint A Guitar: 5150 Guitar Project Day 6
Paint…This seems like it would be an easy thing to figure out. How hard could it be? When looking back at the test run, paint really was where most of the problems originated. I mentioned before that a RustOleum primer was used on the test guitar. That was the same brand of paint we used […]
How To Paint A Guitar: 5150 Guitar Project Day 1
I’ve finally gotten up the nerve to attempt this 5150 paint job on the Kramer. I’ll be posting updated pictures and info on how the process has gone over the next few weeks. I hope to take what I learned from the experience of painting the Squire and apply that to this project for a […]
Guitar Painting Test Run
So Josh and I just completed the guitar painting test run. The results are pretty good. Over the past few months we’ve been sanding,painting,resanding and repainting my old Fender Squire trying to treat it as a test run for the 5150 project. I didn’t want to mess up the new Kramer if it wasn’t going […]
Disney Is On Sunday
We’ll be flying out to Orlando tomorrow morning to get ready for the marathon. It’s been a long road of training and knee pain, but I’m looking forward to it if for nothing else but to get it over with. I’m going to give it my best shot with my goal being just to finish. […]
Van Halen 5150 Guitar Project
I’m playing around with the idea of trying to create my own custom version of the Eddie Van Halen 5150 guitar. Basically, that would mean I would be trying to turn a new Kramer guitar like this one: Into something like one of these from the classic Van Halen days: I’m finding situations where I […]
Running Week of 11/9/2007
Saturday – 5 miles Tuesday – 5 miles Thursday – 4 miles Friday – 4 miles Total 18 miles Next week has 20 miles for the long run. That should give me a good test for what the marathon will feel like.
1/2 Marathon
Last Saturday was the Silver Comet Half-Marathon in Georgia. My time was a little slower than last years half that I did on Thanksgiving, but it will still be a good stepping stone for the full marathon coming up in January. I finished up in 2:02:24. Next stop is Disney.
Running Week of 10/19/2007
Saturday – 15 miles Wednesday – 5 miles Friday – 5 miles Total – 25 miles