Looking for a Marbling Tutorial

[ryanscissorhands]

I've been trying to find a post where someone had done some marbling on their pedals, and had a link to their own website, which had step-by-step photos of dipping a guitar bady to get the marbled effect. I can't seem to find it. Does anyone have the link, or remember who it was?

Now, of course, this is the part where Tone God comes in, posts a link, and adds the usual "use the search function." I tried that. This is the point where everyone else uses the search function, and finds it in 1.3 seconds, and laughs at me for either lying or being stupid. I'm totally okay with that.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[rhys]

search for "Swirl-Paint" on the GEO cite. 

[R.G.]

I dug into marbling a long time ago, and wound up with the alternative "swirl-painting" which is on GEO, along with some reference to marbling.

Marbling is messy.

The process requires you float paint on some other liquid, then lay or dip your object to be marbled onto the swirled pattern in the paint. Classical marbling for paper involved making a paint pattern on top of glycerin, as I remember.

Marbling objects other than flat paper requires dipping them. You float paint on water, prep the object to receive paint, then dip it through the paint layer into the water. The paint adheres to the object, then remains when you remove it from the water.

The trick is getting the paint to float in a thin, spread-out layer in the face of water's huge surface tension. For that you use 20-Mule-Team brand washing borax. It is still sold in stores for doing laundry.

I think there is a detailed description on this in the article at GEO; it's been years since I tried it. I didn't get results I liked as much as swirl-painting, which was dripping different colored paints over the object, but it's possible that this was only because I didn't practice enough to get good results. This is definitely a process which you must learn, and practice before becoming adept.

[Alex C]

USE THE SEARCH!!!



This sounds like what you're describing (click).
(Just giving you a hard time about the search, but this was the first result on Google for "swirl paint guitar"  )


Here's the GEO link that was mentioned (click).

-Alex