PRS Silver Sky Nitro Sparkle Refinish
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2020
- This is an overview of the entire project I did with my dad to refinish my Paul Reed Smith Silver Sky. Below will be the links for all the stuff I used during this project if you're interested in doing it yourself.
Music used in video is from my EP:
dallasryanstewart.bandcamp.co...
open.spotify.com/album/6MfJ0R...
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Fender Custom Shop painter:
/ @tryitout3554
Nitrocellulose clear lacquer:
www.amazon.com/Mohawk-Finishi...
Pearl pigment powder:
www.kppigments.com/products/s...
Vintage Amber tinted lacquer:
www.amazon.com/ColorTone-Tint...
Mint green pickguard:
reverb.com/item/17503275-parc...
Gotoh Vintage Tuners: (I paid around $70, idk why they're so much now)
reverb.com/item/25184807-goto...
Spray Gun:
www.harborfreight.com/20-oz-p... 
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1.-You are out of your mind.
2.-It turned out great, it looks incredible.
Haha thanks
#1 was what was my thoughts watching the paint and the head gun
@@DallasStewartMusic
I don’t know why I’m just seeing this video now. Two years later, but I’m an expert when it comes to painting guitars. One thing that I can tell you, even though your guitar looks gorgeous!, Is that you went through way too much effort removing the paint. You don’t have to remove all of the paint. All you have to do is Sand down the clear coat that’s on the guitar enough so that you create a bond able surface, so the primer and the paint that you put over it will stick. That is why you had and issue with the wood grain.
If it was a brand new body, he would’ve had to put either epoxy or a good wood sealer over the wood to keep the grain from coming through the primer or paint.
@@TarynnElizabeth619 yeah if I were to do it again I would have definitely used sealer. Either way I didn’t need to go all the way down to bare wood, a mistake looking back for sure
All the mistakes you make are what makes this video so damn good. It totally highlights the pitfalls and really helps show you how to do something right.
Thank you.
That looks incredible. You may have the coolest silver sky out there.
Looks awesome, but honestly looked awesome stock. I think its super cool that you did it with your dad. That memory will stay with you forever.
I would have just embraced those headstock flakes. Even add more just to make it "intended" lol. Awesome job! Props for the Satin neck. Totally went into this with crash & burn vibes, came out feeling confident in my own endeavors, thanks for the in depth video. Turned out great!
it's like when john mayer moved a hair and it changed the timeline to when fender agreed to the collab, this is beautiful
Wow. Love that you did it with your dad. You got balls. Love the background music. Looks incredible.
Bravery, patience and skill. Well done.
wow superb work
Dallas! This video was such a ride! Congratulations on sticking it out and doing a great job. I almost jumped out the window when i daw you carve up the original paint. Thaks for sharing
That is awesome, you did a great job! I love the color and pickguard color!
That’s awesome man! Give ya props for doing that
Damn dude! That’s the coolest guitar I’ve ever seen! You did some amazing work my friend. I bet if John watched this he would be super happy with what you have done and made this your own. Brilliant.
This looks amazing! Absolute props on doing this and getting it to looks os amazing
Thank you!
Very beautiful and incredible job, but man I sure love that orion green finish!
That turned out GREAT!! ..You're Brave for doing it, but it worked out VERY well!
Thanks!
Looks amazing
Looks absolutely amazing!! Love that finish!!
You'd have avoided the grain issue on the first attempt if you hadn't removed the original grain filler. Paul says that how they do it now is true to how Fender did it back in the mid 60's anyway.
VERY cool. That came out awesome, dude! LOVE the “brushed aluminum” hardware too.
Surprisingly easy mod but made a huge difference! It hasn’t polished in the past year either
Gorgeous. You are a brave man.
Dude that is so sick!! Love the sparkle finish man
Thanks!
The guitar had a nitro finish before as well. Prs switched from poly on the first silver Skys to nitro after 2020ish. That´s why it's not as chunky
Much better than the original colors that are...somewhat extremely basic.
That looks incredible I can’t wait to do my PRS in dragon burst
The flakes on the headstock looks sick bro
great work! great music too!
Thank you!!
I think it looks very nice.
Well done! I was sweating bullets when you started but damn it turned out great!
Haha, imagine how I felt :o
@@DallasStewartMusic is the finish smooth or do you feel a texture?
@@ChaseandMelia super smooth, feels like a new guitar from the store!
Looks dope!!
Tip. Cover the body well with primer. Then let it dry and sand down. Then go over it again with an even coat of primer following it up with ur basecoat, flake and topcoat. This way the primer will work as a filler for the grain and will create an even surface.
P.s beautiful done though! Love the finish!!
looks great!
Fine work!
Thankz!
Great job…it is lots of stress and work
you really have some big huevos my friend! great job
This is the type of content I like. THANKS for posting. This was super fun to watch. (I also have an Orion Green SS :D )
Thank you!
There were definitely a few hairy moments along the way but the final product looked awesome!
I'm in the middle of doing an Ibanez in Silver Sparkle atm. I've lost momentum hand sanding back to bare wood and its been in pieces for something ridiculous like 9 years. This is the type of video I needed to inspire me to just get stuck in, make mistakes, fix and learn as I go.
That’s beautiful. I love the silver sky. The only thing I don’t like is the finish and the bleach white plastics/ new chrome hardware. You did an amazing job, wish I had the patience to turn the silver sky into a nitro sunburst with aged mint green plastic
Wow your quite brave for doing this what a great job
Thank you!
beautiful. hope you reliced the pickups and knobs since than
Cool
Cool video. I brought it up in the PRS forum.
Cool! Send a link?
Love it
Zayum son!!!
This entire video gives me severe anxiety 😭😵
Veeery risky project but the result is gorgeous!
I believe the silver sky has a thin coat of nitro on it which is why it came off easier than the squire!
Wow !
This is amazing, the guts you have is sooo big
Are you calling me fat??
@@DallasStewartMusic NO NOT THAT 😭
Now that I read it again I think my sentence really sounded wrong, my bad LMAO (anyway can't stop thinking about this silver sky it's too good)
@@Monomonmamon just kidding bro, thanks a lot I appreciate it!!
nice job
Would you please do a Video how he Sounds now with the nitro? Would be very interesting!
Nice!
To be honest your finish is better than the factory one. I have a dodgem blue silversky and I can see the grain through the finish. Pretty sweet man. You are patient as hell too.
Thanks! Love the Dodgem blue ones, can’t say I would strip one of those haha
Very interesting video and great results! I have similar shade of green PRS S2 but without the metallic flake and it looks a bit dull… Changing the color is not going to work because of matching headstock, but adding a sparkle/flake lacquer might actually work!
That would be awesome! Yeah in theory if you scuff up your original color and add flake it should work out.
I love the look on those tuners. This looks so cool... I do wonder if you went a little thick/oversprayed clear coat on the headstock. It looks a little wet rather than glossy.
Thanks! Yeah the headstock is a bit uneven, we didn't sand it very much before going straight to buffung. Honestly I liked the look and rolled with it. I've seen fender custom shops that have that look.
Impressive
looks nice. I like to do it metal flake Orange.
I think it came out looking really nice. You probably could have saved some materials by resprayed a sanding sealer after you got down to bare wood. It keeps the wood from soaking the finish. I painted a few guitars with that same clear and I usually get two or three bodies out of a quart. Adding the flake I'm sure also added to the need for more clear to bury the finish. I commend you on your courage to take on such a project on an expensive guitar.
If I did it over I certainly would have used a sealer, and yeah we checked after every layer of clear to see if we got enough coverage over the flake, took a lot of coats!
Sweeet!😍
I so want to refinish my Arctic white now lol
Good job! What a bold project. Question, were the Gotoh tuners a perfect fit, including screw holes?
Yes! But the ratio on them is super harsh, I probably would have kept the stock tuners even though they don’t look as nice!
Love the finish and mods you've done. Just one question. Could you have kept the original tuners and just changed the buttons?
I looked into that, however forums were saying it was impossible to remove the buttons without damaging them.
I liked it at 3:18
Great video! What year is your silver sky? I’ve heard that PRS recently switched to nitro finishes, so that’s why your paint job on the guitar was easier to take off.
Yes I've learned this as well since I posted the video. PRS switched to nitro in 2020.
Amazing! What kind of guitar case is that at the end?
Wau !
Have you thought about changing the pickup covers and knobs to something to match the pickguard color?
I have a gretsch guitar I wanna do a silver sparkle on, do you have to sand it to bare wood? Or can you lightly sand then spray like a matte black base coat then your silver then the glitter coat? Your guitar turned out great 👍
I would recommend not sanding down to bare wood. The old finish will give you a good smooth surface to start with.
Amazing job! Also did you have to re-drill holes for the gotohs?
Thank you!! And nope, the bases for the tuners lined up perfectly!
@@DallasStewartMusic good to know. Thanks so much!
Went into this thinking it was insane... but you really pulled it off man. Very tastefully done. I've considered doing this to a different guitar but was unsure about investing in a spray gun. Do you think cans would have been fine for the entire project? Did you just use a gun because you wanted sparkle and needed to mix?
Spray gun opens the door up to so many more color and finish styles (like sparkle), but if you can find a color you like in a lacquer spray it should go on great! StewMac has a few color choice I think, might be worth checking out. Of course you could probably use any generic lacquer spray, not specifically ones made just for guitars like StewMac. Good luck!
Do you find that the heat gun would burn the glue joints. And have glue bubbling out a little bit. I had that problem trying to remove polyurethane from a MIM strat.
Be very careful using the heat gun and glue joints won't be a problem. You have to not stay in one spot for more than a few seconds, and keep a good 12-18 inches from the guitar.
Lol. The funniest video ever. You did a great job
That is incredible. I'd be terrified to try that but wow yours looks great. Would you ever consider doing that for someone (for money?)
Haha depends on the price!
@@DallasStewartMusic How much would you charge? I'm seriously interested. I have a polar blue silver sky. Not sure what color i'd want but probably the same as yours. I mean, I'd probably offer about $500-800 if you were interested. Negotiable though.
i'd probably do a dark purple sparkle or something.
@@DallasStewartMusic if you are actually interested, you can email me: awbayes@gmail.com. I'd be up for it for Christmas time.
The core silver sky is nitro finish, much thinner, that’s why it came off easier
5:00 Second mistake: never mix a pearl into your carrier. You always want to mix it first into a solvent. If it were a polyurethane 2-stage finish you'd first mix it into the reducer, but since this is a nitrocellulose finish you'd first want to mix it into a quality lacquer like Cardinal and not that crap from Lowes
Great job man, shame about the pickup covers, arguably looks better with the white anyway! the 2020 silvers sky are nitro painted bodies
Lots of info about it and confirmed by PRS on the official silver sky thread on the PRS Forum! Thats probably why it was really easy to get off compared to the poly squire :)
Oh no way, I totally thought it was poly they were using!
Vers cool resultat, but curious as to why you decided to strip to bare wood, if the underlying finish is as good as the one you had, you could have scuffed and painted over it. That would have given you a smooth base, with the grain already covered. It came out great, but you could have saved yourself some work. That’s what Fender did in the old days, ie custom colour over the sunburst.
I want to know more about the tuners, what is your impression about them after some months with them?
Definitely would not recommend lol, they’re very tight and not smooth. They look the part though
@@DallasStewartMusic I just bought the SE version, and I don't get why everything feels so cool but the tuners... I don't like the plastic feeling :(
@@nunezkant Right, I mean the stock tuners have AWESOME functionality, but yeah not a great look or feel
Mystic Seafoam Green
Beautiful work! Do you have any intention of selling it in the future?
No sir, gonna be a long term keeper for me!
@@DallasStewartMusic :(
@@gabrielmatsumoto2628 What would you pay for it? Just curious 🤓
That’s because the silver sky core model isn’t a poly finish. It’s a nitro, the se version is a poly though. So unless you had a se body it was already nitro
What size compressor did you use?
4 CFM
you can age the plastic parts using coffee or tea look up on RUclips how to do that
I've looked into aging them, decided to hold off on it since I didn't relic the body or anything.
Had you have left the original sanding sealer on it, you wouldn't have had so many problems. There's no need to go to Burwood if you're going to put a solid color over the top of it which was your white base coat
I wish prs would just offer sparkle.. especially Gold! They would triple their sales or more!
Not sure about triple their sales, but I definitely agree they would sell a bucket load!
Those colors don't really sell. A burst would be more popular.
2:00 First mistake: removing the polyurethane. There is no need to remove it. By removing it all you did was give yourself more work as now you had to seal it. All you had to do was prep with 600 as the factory finish would have worked as your sealer.
Next time on a Nebula please
Yes good idea
shoulda left that neck alone. does have a kind of vintage look to it though.
Dude... refinish my sc 245!!!
What's your email? We could make it happen!
Wouldn't sealer fix that problem
I thought these had a nitro finish.
Correct, found it out after completing the project. I still wanted to do a refinish regardless
@@DallasStewartMusic so the paint you stripped originally was nitro or poly?
@@clos87 It was nitro.
@@DallasStewartMusic you could've used acetone and that would've melted the finish. Much more easier and safer than the heatgun
By the way there is no magic powers in vintage guitars !!
i have a crush on you
:o
You are crazy lol. I’d never touch my silver sky. If I could change anything, it would be the radius
Congrats you just devalued this guitar easily 50% on the market.
All good, not interested in selling
Nah, would rather spend months on improving my guitar playing and painting my music room. 🤪
But whatever turns you on.
Thanks! Appreciate it!
The process was amazing to watch but the new color is way too fruity lol
Dude you buy a 3k guitar to sand all down and make it look like a cheap squire? gosh .,..
Yeah...I'm sorry :'(
I guess the answer is no. Lol
Since it doesn’t look like a cheap squier at all.
If anything the stock silver sky looks cheap.
You wasted so much time and money removing the original paint. I wish more people that know how to paint guitars and wood products would speak up.
Next time don’t sand through the sanding sealer.
Sir I understand you wanting to refinish but I would to see the look on Paul Smiths face. ! You ruined a great factory finish !!