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What Kind Of Paint

I made a stupid mistake when making one of my cbg, I made the cbg backwards (I kicked myself for it), cut the wrong side so the logo is upside down. It’s a all wood box with no stickers on it, the logo on top looks like it is printed on it or burnt on, it looks like it can be sanded off easily.

Here’s what I thought I could do with this cbg:

1. I could sell it for a left handed person or
2. I could paint the top of the box to cover the logo

Question is: What kind of paint works best for a wood cigar box and do you think this is what I should do or keep it for a left hander?

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Permalink Reply by Maddog on June 11, 2012 at 9:16am

I'd set it up as a lefty, gotta keep them south paws happy ya know.

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Permalink Reply by South Paw,Davey on June 11, 2012 at 9:25am

Someone call me?? Keep it as it is,-)

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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on June 13, 2012 at 4:02am

no problem - all my builds are upside down lefty! (-:

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Permalink Reply by Rand Moore on June 19, 2012 at 8:49pm

I recently built 40 mini stick dulcimers for the local international school's four guitar classes for 13 yos. And we had the kids paint their sound boxes to personalize their instruments and later, had them install the machine tuners, nut, bridge and strings. Anyways, we used a special white paint designed for use on wood products as the base coat. Sorry, I can't tell you the name and other details (it's all in Chinese hanzi), but it was made by the same company that makes the water based polyurethane that I've been using with good result on the stick dulcimers that I build.

Anyways, the kids used water-based poster paints borrowed from their art teacher to paint ontop of the white undercoat. Then, after they were done I painted them with a single coat of poly urethane (with two coats on the bare wood neck, headstock and fretboards). They came out pretty well. But be forewarned, kids and paint = a big mess. So, water based paints and polyurethane is a good choice for kids.

There were a few "spare" instruments which I painted by mixing poster paint colors with water-based polyurethane which worked well and only required one application (as opposed to painting then poly-ing). I'll likely use this method on future builds that require any painting.

-Rand.