I bought a Barbie guitar at the thrift shop a while back. It had a set of fully functional tuners on it, a nut, bridge and a nice straight neck. I guess it is 1/2 size kids guitar. Not bad for 1.00! Thing is the tuners have bright pink buttons. I have spray painted one of them black for a d-bow and that seems to work ok but now I'm thinking. Sorry for rambling.
I'm wondering how I can convert them from just pink, to psychedelic! Gonna make a CB dulcimer for a hippie friend. She is a Deadhead, but I don't want to do a full on Grateful Dead build.
Anyone know what would be a good way to alter the tuning buttons?

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I Like what matt said..."Pank tuners"!!!! 

 

man those are priceless..i would keep them pant too....dont paint the pank thangs!

the psychedelic tuners look amazing ! they remind me of adrian belews album cover for "op zop too wah" .

 

they do sell some special paint (it has acid in it i think) that works well on plastic . spray paint , they do have it at wal mart as well . but if i remember correctly its like 6 bucks a can .  nice find on the dollar barbie guitar , although i had a pretty tough time with barbie so far . i have messed with 2 barbie units , one karoake machine with echo for an amp . it was demonic , i gave up i think . another mini karoake barbie thing with echo that had a bad trace , wasted at least three hours on it , trying to mod the timing resistor for long delay . gave up , gave it to my niece , she LOVED that thing .

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