How To Paint A Matching Headstock

The process and materials used are much the same as when painting the body of a guitar on a smaller scale.

How to paint a matching headstock.

I sort of thought i would need to sand it down to the bare wood surface first for the paint to stick. Pretty straight forward job. Few tips hints and tricks. Although many models of guitar will have a plain varnished headstock you can paint yours to match the body of your guitar.

Taping off then painting black the headstock of my that f ng guitar mim telecaster. At the moment there is a thin layer of gloss on top of the wood. I always have loved the custom color fender guitars with painted headstocks and so i ve decided to paint both headstocks to match the bodies. Just to clarify i don t need to sand anything off the headstock just apply the paint and gloss on top of it.

I feel like it s a little bit of a risk as both headstocks were looking excellent in clear but i d hate to regret not trying to make exactly the guitar i. Each works a little differently but. Sadly color match is incredibly unreliable and in my experience hd associates don t transfer old label info they will do a color match of the old paint. In the last couple of years i ve had about five different colors that i ve needed matched three of which were old behr paint mixes and none have matched despite repeated attempts to re match.

Many of the larger paint companies including behr and sherwin williams offer mobile apps to make paint matching a breeze.