Acrylic Pour Guitar -

#diykitchallenge22 Harley Benton Guitar Kit JA
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‪@ThomannsGuitarsBasses‬
Perfecting the dirty pour method will take practice. I did one pour test prior to this jazz master and another after. I achieved three drastically different results. I think the thickness or amount of paint impacts the way the pigments dry and therefore impact the cells. I’m going to keep trying with less paint, less pouring medium and a thinner base layer. Once I can achieve repeatable results, I think acrylic pouring may be a more fun alternative to staining.
I have another test body to share in the next vid. And I’ll be doing one more additional vid on the acrylic pour process.
I’ll be posting a 60 second cut of this jazz master kit build as well.
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All Music Composed by Mark Gutierrez

[@MastaVo]

If DMT was a piece of music... Guitar looks great :)

[@mallycin6863]

dude this is insane, I did this kit myself earlier and now feel like a caveman looking at your result

[@MAX96MENDES]

SUPERB ART ! Congrats !

[@jonnyjonbo]

Wow that looks wicked! 👌🏼 sick👊🏼✌🏼

[@moztheravensfan]

Beautiful

[@anuallaf]

Gorgeous 😮

[@SPLENDIDZEN]

Psychedelic is an understatement... I had a dream of having a guitar like this... First I tried it with my Fender electric bass... And now with no money for paints or a workshop to work... I have chosen to put stickers to my Squier by Fender Mustang... But your thing... is "work of ART"!!!... both the work of luthier and paint (like a true artistic painter!) and with your own music!! !... Congratulations and enjoy that beautiful guitar!!!...

[@digitalcthulhu143]

Bro I wanted to do a pour paint on my guitar since 2020 and put it off for so long.... I began work forreal on a $50 strat knockoff I got from a pawn shop that wasn't working and began working in March 2022. Only now am I close to finishing. It was a pain but well worth the effort!

[@ijumitzu]

Wow ! Very unique and cool looking

[@ChadwickRider]

OMG, the waves of energy in the universe are sometimes crazy... I literally just spent the whole week looking at these Harley Benton kits... specifically the Jazzmaster JA version with the white "p90s"... and low and behold, you drop a new vid with Harley Benton kit later that week. Ahh, the power of manifestation. Love it!!!

[@MarkGutierrez]

Wow serendipity. I dig the guitar. It literally only needs three things. 1. The input jack was too tight. I couldn't get a cable to go in or out easily. 2. The "P90s" were terrible. 3. The frets were great. Didn't need leveling but did need a polishing. I looked at the frets under a microscope and there are scratches covering the ENTIRE fret. They must use a crowning file that grinds the whole fret from end to end. Other than those three things, the guitar is outstanding for the price.

[@URTH-yb5xh]

This is fantastic Beautiful job Looks great Acrylics unreal

[@josephbania4564]

I haven't really seen any comments on the music. I, for one, LOVE it!

[@realitystudioscustomshop]

That turned out great, looks like it was a lot of fun to do too!

[@MarkGutierrez]

Fun, stress free. Nearly immediate satisfaction. A total blast.

[@realitystudioscustomshop]

@@MarkGutierrez glad to hear it

[@0074craig]

Amazing Job

[@ciaranmulhall6123]

Soooo cool 😎

[@BadassBrutusGuitar]

Hi Mark, you did an awesome job bro and the result is a beautiful DIY guitar! Well done.... Finished my first self-built guitar this week and I love the creative process :) Have a great weekend! Bert

[@kyriakosomeroglou1934]

Never thought before that my all time favourite guitar look would be the outcome of a HB diy kit. Great job

[@kmp321]

Wowoww greath ...I Wanna do my guitar. .like this...

[@TennisOnion]

gutsy move, I like it

[@dikinebaks]

marvelous

[@David.C.Velasquez]

I love the things you do. Coincidentally, my good friend Tomas looks strikingly similar to you. This universe is a mysterious wonder... in some far flung realm of the omniverse, we are brothers in arms.

[@johnnyrefe]

it's so beautiful

[@paulusvirgilius]

That came out a beauty Mark congrats!

[@Kali-Yuga-Peace-Corp]

That finish looks amazing.

[@SpiderStratagemVI]

Gorgeous! Really a one of a kind finish- which i love!

[@sentry1204]

amazing

[@fluidalchemist68]

Now we're talking!

[@martinclayton7260]

That looks fantastic!

[@sevenrhye]

That looks amazing! I definitely want to get a kit and try this type of finish.

[@Thoracius]

You should see his videos where he does the pour before cutting the body out. The result is much much better.

[@yajneshar5200]

So cool look probably I would do something like that for my next project Amazing work

[@duanewilliams7676]

Love it!!!!

[@SWHBOYCE]

Nicely done ; reminiscent of Adrian Belew's Jaguars in the '90's . Great music too !!...Thanks !!...

[@MarkGutierrez]

I remember that. He even had different color tuners. I should have done that.

[@Marwatt]

Jaguars? Belew? I remember mustangs not jaguars... ;-)

[@SWHBOYCE]

@@Marwatt ...and Stratocasters...

[@Marwatt]

@@SWHBOYCE of course! :-)

[@dgreenshloff]

Love your videos. Very inspiring.

[@pavelesvecele4112]

beautiful!!! but doesn't such a thick layer of acrylic paint peel off over time? Thanks, Pavel.

[@AdamTheGuitarist]

Beautifull. I would have just protected the routes, especially the pickup ones because sometimes when you eant to swap pickups, every milimeter counts.

[@evenmilla]

sick

[@dimitrisdimitriadis4913]

Did you apply primer without sanding the sealer off? Isn't that a problem for primer adhesion?

great result. Simply dragging the paint cup over the body, like you did, instead lifting the cup up in one place, seems to be the way to go for a front routed body. Did you wait about 1-2 weeks for the acrylic to fully cure before clear coating? Well, maybe that'd only be an issue when going for a high gloss finish (the acrylic might shrink in the first 2 weeks).

[@MarkGutierrez]

The acrylic shrinks considerably. Shrinkage, or water evaporation, is something to consider when accounting for surface area and volume. I've tried this three times and I think using less paint so it spreads thinner over the surface yields less shrinking. I waited a little over a week before using the satin clear coat.

@@MarkGutierrez I see, so you did various tests beforehand, hence the great final result :)

[@lrackirkwood7598]

Fortnight!

[@stuartp8658]

That's a great video and a great result. Thanks for showing us how you did it. I will be definitely looking into this technique further. Side note: Why do the kit company always use P90 pickups instead of proper Jazzmaster pickups in their kits?

[@Fraik]

Most cheap companies now can do accurate -ish strats and teles, but they still struggle with offsets.. at least now they can do a passable body shape, but the pickups and bridge are still completely wrong

[@MarkGutierrez]

On that note. The P90s that came with the kit are absolutely terrible. I couldn't get a clean sound. They were hot in a harsh way. The only way to get a decent tone out them was to roll off the volume and play with fingers very lightly.

[@stuartp8658]

@@MarkGutierrez The couple of kits I've done (strat - 1st build and 335), the pickups were by far the weakest part and were quickly replaced. As you experienced, very hard to get any decent tone from them.

[@Thoracius]

I think it's because Strat, Tele, P90, basic humbucker, etc.-style pickups are basically commodities, thanks to the decades of cheap asian clones of Strats, Teles, Les Pauls, etc. These kits just use the absolute cheapest off-the-shelf components that are already available. Jazzmaster pickups are more of a specialty item.

[@IMSkerstborrel]

What is the difference between pouring medium (flowtrol) and pouring oil, in your shopping list?

[@MarkGutierrez]

the flowtrol makes the acrylic paint "pourable". It needs to be liquidity enough to "flow". The pouring oil is what makes the "cells".

[@philter820]

Why did you use fire to heat the paint? Is it necessary?

[@colinedmunds2238]

That was awesome. How smooth is the finish? Does the acrylic (when it dries) require any sanding to get it level? Or was that not a concern? Fantastic results How smooth is the finish? I saw satin clear coat, but did the acrylic dry to be all the same level/thickness?

[@MarkGutierrez]

It's not perfectly flat but it's not rough either.

[@jesusgirarte-sandoval7535]

What happens if you don’t use the acrylic medium?

[@MarkGutierrez]

It wouldn't flow as well.

[@jesusgirarte-sandoval7535]

@@MarkGutierrez thanks for the info!

[@hunterprice3320]

I've been thinking of doing something similar with an sg kit. Do you think black would work ok for a base color instead of white? Would it make the colors to look bad?

[@IronMonkey79]

Can you put a link where to buy this specific paint?

[@MarkGutierrez]

Pouring Paint - 36 bottles amzn.to/3O3NQD6 Lots of white acrylic amzn.to/3xUfpcr Pouring medium - Floetrol amzn.to/3QkwovL Black disposable gloves amzn.to/3MV8Me5 Pouring oil amzn.to/3xy2P15

[@Burtallica]

What did you use at 1:29 to plug up the bridge holes?

[@MarkGutierrez]

Modeling clay.

[@Burtallica]

Thanks for the quick response! I look forward to trying this out soon.

[@MarcBrunoSchroth]

Hey, I stumbled upon your video a couple of weeks ago and it inspired me in a way that I just purchased a kit and did my first experiments with this technique on scrap wood! :) But I have one question: What did you use for clear coat? I've been looking into 2k clear coats (which could be a problem for water based acrylics) and water based acrylic coat (which will not cure into a really hard layer like 2k would...) ... so, what did you use or what would you recommend? How sturdy is it in the end?

[@MarkGutierrez]

I used satin nitro from Stew Mac. Just one coat to seal it. Wasn’t really going for a gloss finish or a finish that buried the paint. It still had some paint texture to it. It did the job. The satin nitro is self leveling and doesn’t require sanding. Soon just sprayed the top and sides and let it cure. Done.

[@MarcBrunoSchroth]

Thanks@@MarkGutierrez!

[@Mr_Ashley]

Coldplay called…..they want their guitar back. Jokes aside, that’s effffing cool dude!

[@kmatax9237]

That’s cool! I was wondering how James Tyler guitars does their “shmear” finishes… Check out rand guitars paint tutorial on KZbin, very 80s and unique look you don’t see anywhere anymore

[@MarkGutierrez]

Just checked out the Rand Guitars tutorial. It's a cool look. Definitely very 80's.

[@GahMehGrrrr]

Bloom or microcosm on the soundtrack? or something else? 😀

[@MarkGutierrez]

I'm mimicking the microcosm with my personal Beat Repeat preset in Ableton Live.

[@GahMehGrrrr]

@@MarkGutierrez very neat

[@barrychristian4050]

When does Austin powers get his agrooovey guitar?

[@saikkkkkk]

good looking guitar, bad backgroud music -_-

[@trjb1767]

Disagree. Backup music appropriate

[@blackwolf8044]

The most annoying music I ever heard. Wth