GOTM June 2010 - Donnie's Stryper Universe

mattofvengeance · 06-10-2010, 12:32 PM

Looks absolutely awesome, minus the painted neck

Josh · 06-10-2010, 12:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mattofvengeance

Looks absolutely awesome, minus the painted neck

Um, it's stained and oiled. None of the "sticky" clear finish you get with 'traditional' painted necks.

eleven59 · 06-23-2010, 04:39 PM

Anyone else notice that this is labelled as "June 09" on the front page?

Necromechanical · 07-04-2010, 10:43 PM

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Originally Posted by eleven59

Anyone else notice that this is labelled as "June 09" on the front page?

Yeah I noticed that too.

Very nice guitar, why did you decide to keep the killswitch red though? I would've painted it to match the rest of the guitar. You do know you can pop off the red button part from the black base without damaging it, right?

DonBot · 07-06-2010, 05:45 PM

Ideally, I want to find something like this only in yellow:

Shawn · 07-14-2010, 02:33 AM

Congrats Donnie! I love it. Looks awesome. also Stryper is awesome.

SBelmont · 07-14-2010, 04:55 AM

I'm new here, this actually my first post. After viewing the down right and absolute godliness that is this guitar I had to join. I've seen designs similar to this but this one annihilates them all. Bravo.

Anyhow on to my question...

Right now I am in the prep stages of putting together a guitar from a handful of spare Ibanez parts (RG Body, an edge, and a few Dimarzios I pulled out of my old Jackson XTRR before I sold it) and I have to know: how can I get my neck to look like that? Josh stated above that it was stained and oiled and I was curious what kind of stain would achieve that look?

This may be a dumb question but I have looked around and haven't found anything definitive on the topic. Any help would be great, thanks guys.

DonBot · 07-14-2010, 06:48 AM

Thanks, man!
I just used the Minwax Decorator stain. The color is black onyx. I think I did like 3 or 4 coats to make it really dark and then I did about 4 coats of tung oil over it.

SBelmont · 07-14-2010, 07:14 AM

It looks amazing. Does it still have the fast smooth feel of a satin neck?

DonBot · 07-15-2010, 05:46 AM

Yep! The key is to go over it with very fine steel wool between every coat all through the tung oil. But not too much.

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