{"id":160,"date":"2012-06-04T13:55:32","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T13:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=160"},"modified":"2012-06-07T13:51:24","modified_gmt":"2012-06-07T13:51:24","slug":"pow-pickguard-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"POW! Pickguard finished&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_161\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-161\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-161\" title=\"telestar_clearct_1\" src=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1001\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_1.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_1-300x250.jpg 300w, http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_1-1024x854.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-161\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All cleared for action. Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I put about 15 coats of clearcoat today on the pickguard. This particular poly has a hardener which gives it (potentially) a hard mirror finish. While the finish is indeed hard I decided that I wanted a somewhat pitted look to go along with the tarnished silver. I started sanding before it was completly set to get the effect. Now it looks and quite amazingly feels like an old metal sign that one might find perhaps on the side of the road on Route 66 somewhere. The gloss finish is the only part that isn&#8217;t authentic in the relic&#8217;ing but I wanted to protect the pickguard. Now, if you get too many scratches you can just buff them out or leave them for a nice effect.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I wasn&#8217;t too pleased with is that the poly reduced the vibrance of the colors. The nice blues, purples and oranges in the silver tarnish are much more muted now. Overall though, I&#8217;ll call it a successful experiment. What do you think?<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a close-up&#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_162\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_2.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-162\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-162\" title=\"telestar_clearct_2\" src=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"810\" srcset=\"http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_2.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/telestar_clearct_2-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-162\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice and crappy looking! Click to enlarge.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I put about 15 coats of clearcoat today on the pickguard. This particular poly has a hardener which gives it (potentially) a hard mirror finish. While the finish is indeed hard I decided that I wanted a somewhat pitted &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/?p=160\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hellguitars.jp\/machinehead\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}