With this fret-less build I'm aiming to follow the general 'style' of my previous fretted cbg, but as the hardware will all be chrome on this one I decided to paint the gold anodised aluminium perforated sheet silver to match. It's actually the same acrylic gloss aluminium spray paint I used on my 'Dogbro' resonator build.

I traced my sound hole cut directly from the box, positioned the screen inside the box with some tape and made reference marks, then by placing some small pieces of blu-tac on the rear of the tracing was able to feed it through the sound hole cut to attach it to the screen.

On removing the screen I was then able to 'see' and mask off the area I needed to be free of paint when bonding it to the box with epoxy later, whilst ensuring I didn't miss any of the area to be painted.

I also painted the back of the screen, which I did first. By using two small pieces of blu-tac stuck on the masked areas, I attached a small noggin of wood to each end of the screen so I could stand it upright during spraying to ensure coverage inside all the edges of the perforations.