How to make your Coldplay guitar from the MyloXyloto era

[Lost Boy]

Hello Folks!

 

I recently saw a post of Chris, the Elephant guy, the member of the year, the guy of the My Mylo Xylotour page in Facebook, unfortunatelly I don't know his user name of the forum so let's just say the biggest fan to him=)

 

So the biggest fan came up with this:

 

A nearly perfect drawn strato similiar e-guitar, it really looks amazing, first of all thumbs up for this!

 

And I thought wow that’s the strato wich is closest to the REAL coldplay guitar, so why shouldn't I make my little own project with the acoustic? So I'm looking up for some help and tips of you out there, maybe the biggest fan or some of you who already painted a guitar could say wich experiences they made with painting a guitar!

 

I hoped that the Coldplay 2012 Movie would help me with this, but they faced the painting process not that much...

 

So I want to make this really perfect, so we need to start with Chris Guitar of the MyloXyloto era. As far as I could see he is playing a Martin d-15m. Correct me if I’m wrong!

 

http://www.martinguitar.com/model/item/145-d-15m.html

Am I right with this? Of course he has one wich is custom made, but I think this is the one wich looks closes to his. Really beautiful middleclass guitar, and I like the sound!

 

So I took a look to a lot of pictures and videos and he always plays the same model, but they are all different painted....

I really like the ones with only white colour, the one he plays a charlie brown is a bit to colored for my taste, and the colors don't fit with the natural brown of the mahagoni....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radioassets/photos/2011/12/15/104972_2.jpg

 

 

So my question is, do you think they used sandpaper or something to change he surface? Or have they just used some color? Of course when you use sandpaper the sound will change, but I don't think a little colour will change the sound, if it isn't to much the solid spruce will still breathe after some years....

 

I have seen a lot of guitars wich were painted in the " Coldplaystyle " but I wanted to do it with a D-15M...

 

if I'm sucessfull with the guitar I'll paint a piano as well! (Hopefully I’ll find a Yamaha GT-20!!!)

 

So please, if you have any experiences, just tell me how I should do this, because I don’t wanna mess up my little beauty:laugh3:

Lost Boy

[Mollyxyloto]

Hi I'm Molly :)

The biggest fan is called Hayachris :)

 

When I make things MX-ified, the best things to use are spray paint and paint markers :)

 

I don't think (IMO) you should sand it down as it will change the sound I think

 

TIP: have a practise on some old paper/wood/card/whatever before going onto your guitar!!:D you don't want to mess things up on your baby :awesome: :guitarist:, have a practise doing which ever designs and patterns you want and blending colours :)

 

You can buy spray paint in lots of art and hardware stores :) and the paint markers you can get off eBay, I've never seen them in a shop?:p

 

If you get a Yamaha GT20 I will be sooo jealous :O :D

 

Good luck :hug: hope it goes well and post pictures if you get it done :D

 

:D

[86Timewarp]

If you search around theres a tons of threads on here about how to paint your guitar.

 

You need to sand down your guitar, have some good paint, primer, and finisher. Also if you're a novice, someone who had never done something of this scale before, consult a professional first.

 

You also have to completely disassemble your guitar, take off the strings, nuts, bolts, pick-ups, etc. before you paint.