Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

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Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by sumlin » Wed May 31, 2017 3:06 am

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:

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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?

Post by Jaguar018 » Wed May 31, 2017 6:08 am

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?

Post by sumlin » Wed May 31, 2017 6:23 am

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?
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)

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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by shadowplay » Wed May 31, 2017 7:24 am

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)
Look at tourmaline green.

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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Wed May 31, 2017 8:26 am

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?

Post by HNB » Wed May 31, 2017 8:46 am

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?

Post by shadowplay » Wed May 31, 2017 10:02 am

PorkyPrimeCut wrote:Marine Blue too, if you're looking for something a little darker.
Mercedes marine blue is non metallic IIRC. Nautical blue is a darker lpb sort of thing but not green at all.

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?

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Wed May 31, 2017 10:10 am

shadowplay wrote: ....Marine Blue which is kinda between lpb and cfm.
Woah! Funny, I just came back here to say the very same thing after digging out this picture...

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...even darker than I remembered it. Very tasty though, nonetheless.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by sumlin » Thu Jun 01, 2017 3:24 am

Yes! Perfect! Thanks...

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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by irv78 » Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:07 am

Another option would be "Nautilus Blue" - it's an Opel/Vauxhall color. I refinished a Mustang several years ago with this color.
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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by Supa-Stang » Fri Jun 02, 2017 3:55 am

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?

Post by sumlin » Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:16 am

UPDATE:

Went with Nautilus Blue, looks pretty good to me...

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Re: Help! Greened-out Lake Placid Blue from a can?

Post by Embenny » Thu Nov 23, 2017 6:53 am

sumlin wrote:
Wed Nov 22, 2017 9:16 am
UPDATE:

Went with Nautilus Blue, looks pretty good to me...

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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?

Post by sumlin » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:00 am

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?

Post by PorkyPrimeCut » Thu Nov 23, 2017 7:24 am

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 :)
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