Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
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Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Someone out there must be able to help...
I'm about to refinish a guitar (cheaply, no frills) and would like it to be somewhere around the darkened, greened-out LPB you often see. The Cobain Mustang basically:
Darker, greener than stock LPB. Not as green as Sherwood Green and not *quite* as dark as Charcoal Frost.
Can someone advise me of an off-the-shelf spraycan colour that gets close? Maybe you've done it yourself and have a photo example?
Thanks...
I'm about to refinish a guitar (cheaply, no frills) and would like it to be somewhere around the darkened, greened-out LPB you often see. The Cobain Mustang basically:
Darker, greener than stock LPB. Not as green as Sherwood Green and not *quite* as dark as Charcoal Frost.
Can someone advise me of an off-the-shelf spraycan colour that gets close? Maybe you've done it yourself and have a photo example?
Thanks...
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
I have no experience doing this, but I am on the internet, so I will gladly share some of my useless knowledge:
Don't people get that green from LPB by using yellow-tinted Nitro clear coats?
Don't people get that green from LPB by using yellow-tinted Nitro clear coats?
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
They do - but I'm not sure that's the effect I'm after. It's just the colour I like. There has to be an off-the-shelf turquoise that someone has used that has a similar colouration to it? I'm looking at the thread about the Old Black Jazzmaster and the poster was using Mercedes Benz car colours and one looked pretty close (but they didn't use it in the end so there's no photo to compare)Jaguar018 wrote:I have no experience doing this, but I am on the internet, so I will gladly share some of my useless knowledge:
Don't people get that green from LPB by using yellow-tinted Nitro clear coats?
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Look at tourmaline green.sumlin wrote:[ Mercedes Benz car colours and one looked pretty close (but they didn't use it in the end so there's no photo to compare)
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Marine Blue too, if you're looking for something a little darker.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
You can also use LPB and use a yellow clear over it to get that green look. Reranch sells both of those in spray can form.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Mercedes marine blue is non metallic IIRC. Nautical blue is a darker lpb sort of thing but not green at all.PorkyPrimeCut wrote:Marine Blue too, if you're looking for something a little darker.
My Porsche 964 is Marine Blue which is kinda between lpb and cfm.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Woah! Funny, I just came back here to say the very same thing after digging out this picture...shadowplay wrote: ....Marine Blue which is kinda between lpb and cfm.
...even darker than I remembered it. Very tasty though, nonetheless.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Yes! Perfect! Thanks...
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Another option would be "Nautilus Blue" - it's an Opel/Vauxhall color. I refinished a Mustang several years ago with this color.
Full Thread here viewtopic.php?f=8&t=47642#p703954
Full Thread here viewtopic.php?f=8&t=47642#p703954
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Manchester Guitar Tech offers LPB last time I checked and if you use his tinted gloss lacquer it apes the effect of the old fender top coat. Its a little more labour intensive than a straight up rattle can.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
UPDATE:
Went with Nautilus Blue, looks pretty good to me...
Went with Nautilus Blue, looks pretty good to me...
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
Looking good! It looks much more blue/less green than that Mustang, though. Does it look greener in person? Is it a lighting trick? The edges look greener like the Mustang, but the too much less so.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
It's still in the post to me so I can't check but the lighting will affect it as it's a pearlescent colour. Looks pretty much exactly what I was after in the photos but I'll put some pics up once I rebuild it all...
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?
There are areas in the picture, around the Greman carve, that look great. Just the right shade of greeny blue.
Hopefully the rest will look like that
Hopefully the rest will look like that
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