Groovus' Guitar

Story time:

After painting my bass a few years back, my long-time friend, Jude, and I were talking about it on the smoke block at work. I told him that I wished I had more instruments to paint, because it was so much fun and, biased as it may be, I thought my bass turned out really dope.
He surprised me and told me that he had this old acoustic guitar he was gifted, he would bring it to me, and I was free to experiment with it. Total artistic freedom - fuck yeah!

It was around the end of 2019 when he brought me the guitar. Then the pandemic started, and it wasn't long after, that everyone started working remotely and the world was weird as fuck. I also started going back to school around the beginning of the lockdowns, so I never really had the time, energy, or inspiration, to devote to the work I knew was required of me, to turn this guitar into something really fucking cool. 

I wanted to create something that I would be proud of, and my friend would enjoy.
I didn't want to half-ass the project, so consequently, the guitar sat in a closet for more than three years... until it didn't anymore.

Here, I've removed the tape from the sound chamber and painted it black before adding a few layers of acrylic color changing Dragon Fly Glaze by Folk Art, topped with a few additional layers of translucent glow in the dark paint. I also outlined the outside of the ring with neon blue. 

Once I was satisfied with the paint job, I sealed the guitar with two coats of Rust-Oleum Satin Clear Enamel. 

When the clear coats were dry, to complete the look I wanted, I installed DR Hi-Def Neon White NWA-10 Acoustic Strings and Miwayer Ebony Bridge Pins. I really like how the small abalone dots on the pins match the color scheme.

Here are some images of the finished piece in normal light and under the black light.

Thanks for checking it out! Remember to be kind to one another ♥ and in the words of my friend, "Stay Groovus"