Yamaha Pacifica Sharpie Guitar!

This is a little project I had a lot of fun doing as I had to combine art with music!!

This is where it started:

I started out with this black Yamaha Pacifica that I bought cheap from a second hand game shop (I have no better pictures of it.... xD).

Although I am not all that fond of black guitars I still went and bought it anyway because it felt great to play!

Then one day I decided, after previously failing at custom painting an old bass of mine, I wanted to give it another shot. With this idea came a pretty big problem, I had no spray paints or money to get spray paints! So i had to come up with a solution, thinking to myself that I'd probably ruin this guitar too if i used spray paints anyway. I looked around my room and seen my massive bag of Sharpie pens and realised that they could actually work well for this, it gave me a much bigger range of designs and ideas I could use for this project. So I got to work!

I started by un-wiring the whole guitar and taking everything apart so that the parts I wasn't working on did not get damaged during this process. I needed to sand the shiny black finish off so that I could add a base layer of white paint to work on.

This is how the guitar looked after I sanded the body and headstock. All smooth and ready for painting!

This is the guitar after being painted............................with radiator paint........ yeah I know it's weird BUUT it actually worked well!! The ragiator paint is very strong and already has a smooth finish to it as it levels itself out whilst it's wet, and because it's so thick I only had to give it 2 coats.

I decided to start with the headstock as it has a smaller surface to just experiment with and see if the Sharpies actually worked on this stuff. And to my surprise it worked just fine! I decided to go with this red and dark blue contrast with the spots within the coloured areas, I'm not 100% sure why I chose these colours but I like how it turned out! And that symbol/ tribal pattern is meant to represent 'Wolf' with the tribal patterns making somewhat of a wolf head shape. I seen the idea on Google images and thought it would look great on a guitar headstock!

This is how it was looking when I was near enough half way through Sharpie-ing the front of the guitar. This is a very long, slow process as I had to go over each of the colours again to make them brighter. Those circles there I just thought would look cool being there! xD And the swirly patterns I put on here represent my style of work I guess, I love putting swirls and circles and all that stuff around my work, it makes everything look more edgy, usually, not on this guitar though xD

Nearly Done!!! At this point I hadn't actually reassembled the guitar I just placed the parts in the right places to get an over view of the final piece.I think this worked quite successfully, don't you?

After applying around 5-8 clear coats my guitar was finally finished!! Nearly....... I had to re-wire everything, attatch all the parts again and screw the neck back on.

I nearly forgot to add that I also coloured the pickups too.......hehehe xD

And there it is!! The final thing, all wired, strung up and ready for metal!!! xD

This project was great fun to work on and I definitly will be doing more projects likes this one!!

At some point in the future I will be changing out the pickups for better ones, not sure which yet, and also I will be changing the pick guard as this one has cracks all over it!

Thanks for reading I hope you enjoyed!! :) :)