Overload Guitars Contact Info
Via delle sette chiese 60
00145 Roma (RM), Italy
Tel: +39 392 16 06 228
e-mail: info@overloadguitars.com
While solid colors are usually applied on ash, chestnut, alder and mahogany full bodies, trasparent ones are for burl, flamed, quilted and spalted tops.
Please note that each transparent color is designed to be applied to a specific wood (the one you see in the previews), so the same color applied to another may significantly change the result.
One of our goals is to keep the paint layer as thin as possible, which is why each instrument is finished with just two coats of satin acrylic paint, leaving the grain open-pored.
This only changes with burl or spalted tops, where all holes and spaces are filled with epoxy resin.
When choosing a gloss finish, it is important to keep in mind that due to the nature of this particular finish, the thinness of the lacquer layer and the fact that the wood is in constant movement, the surface will soon conform to the shape of the wood underneath, losing its smooth surface.
This is much more common with burl tops, where you will likely notice small wrinkles at the knots and grain of the wood at the first change of season or even during the shipping if the destination country has completely different weather conditions.
For this reason, woods such as maple and flame poplar are the most suitable for gloss tops if your primary interest is to keep the instrument in the condition in which it was purchased for a longer period of time.
Transparent colors
Solid colors
