Metal Blood Splatter Finish*.* Help.!@@

[Validity]

I'm trying to do blood splatter effects on my guitar, but how should I do it to achieve a natural blood splatter?
Newcomer, just asking.

 

[kboman]

A sharp knife and some vigorous movement?

 

[jackthehack]

First, sand the entire body down with #320 sandpaper/pads.

Kill/butcher a small animal on body, rabbits or chickens work great.

Shoot a wash coat of nitro lacquer, then let blood/wash coat COMPLETELY dry, this could take some time.

Finish with appropriate numbers of coats of gloss or satin nitro lacquer as desired.

 

[dmraco]

Or you could use the body to simply bludgeon something to death.....

This thread was destined to go wrong from the beginning.


But seriously...there are lots of threads on this on the web.  The most common is using a toothbrush and other size brushes to "flick" the dye or paint on the finish.  This is certainly easy enough to practice.

 

[Validity]

A sharp knife and some vigorous movement?

I'll go for this
Nah seriously, is there any way to do it without using any real blood? It might stink after a few weeks.

 

[kboman]

Why not just go Pollock on the thing? Regardless of whether it looks like blood or not, at least it will be interesting to look at!

 

[bagman67]

To answer seriously, try this:

Get your undercoat in order first.  Then prep it for the splatter coat:  light sanding probably.

Now you want your (presumably) bright red paint (probably a lacquer), and a no. 12 paintbrush, and a stick of scrap lumber.

Load your brush, and position your stick perpendicular to the orientation of how you want the blood splatters to drip.  Whack your loaded brush against the stick, and let the splatters fly.

Repeat as desired.

EDIT:  Practice on scrap first!  And also, probably you should think about how to orient the body so you get things to drip right - gravity can be your friend or your enemy.

Have fun.

Bagman

 

[Patrick from Davis]

I'd take a nitrile kitchen dish washing glove, thin the paint to a more blood like consistency, and dip the hand of the glove in the paint.  Practice on ply wood getting the drips and flicks right.  You might look into getting one of those disposable white paper suits so you don't get yourself so dirty.  Also the others have mentioned ways of doing it.  It might be, this'd be funny to me, that the brush method makes more "realistic" splatter patterns.
Patrick

 

[leo12.]

Guessing that the body is gloss white sand the body with 320 or 400 lightly to dull sheen. Go to  the hardware store/ Wood yard get 1 8 ft  x 6"
white faced chipboard panel cut into 6 pieces (you now have 6 practice samples ready to try your ideas on) while there get a litre of red water based
latex / emulsion paint, matt finish thin to your requirements use brushes as mentioned the glove trick sounds good also dropping paint from a height
& moving the (body/sample) so the red runs off the face round the edges etc brush spatters etc. Let dry (when effect is right for you) light clear coats then more as necessary to finish. If it does not workout it will wipe off (water based) before clear coats.

 

[MedianMusic1]

Try the stencil way...
http://www.istencils.com/Spashes-Smudges-and-Cracks-Laser-Cut-Stencils-s/54.htm