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What Kind Of Paint

Posted by Josh Thompson on June 8, 2012 at 10:31am in Building Secrets, Tips, Advice, Discussion

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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  • Rand Moore June 20, 2012 at 3:49am
    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.
  • Slowpaw Steve T June 13, 2012 at 11:02am

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

  • South Paw,Davey June 11, 2012 at 4:25pm

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

  • Maddog June 11, 2012 at 4:16pm

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

  • Josh Thompson June 11, 2012 at 4:05pm

    To many people say leave it upside down, so I guess I will.   We'll see how it sells.

    Thanks everyone.

  • Thomas "Duck" Petry June 11, 2012 at 12:06pm

    I'd just leave it upside down...Adds character.

  • Josh Thompson June 11, 2012 at 8:21am

    Here is the box that I messed up on.  Thinking of painting it black the with some nice pin strips or somthing on it.  Or I did see one person paint the American Flag on one and that looked nice, 4th of July is coming up too so would probably be a easy sell.

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    • jabes > Josh Thompson June 22, 2012 at 11:24am

      oh a lefty for sure ...

    • William McCauley > Josh Thompson June 11, 2012 at 12:10pm

      That's a nice box, I'd leave it alone. If someone doesn't like offer to sell it to them, then they can change it.

    • Ron "Oily" Sprague > Josh Thompson June 11, 2012 at 8:28am
      Nuthin' wrong with that, that a leetle trip across the Equator wouldn't fix. Sell it to an Aussie ;-)
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