as many of you know, I vinyl wrapped my Mullen G2 a couple years ago. I just finished a project to improve some areas that were lacking and am super excited to share the results.
First off, the vinyl I use is snowboard vinyl found at https://www.extremeboardskins.com/ My contact out there is named Mark and they do an amazing job. Their designs are super high resolution and the vinyl is high gloss and heavy duty. I recently tried working with one of his vinyl competitors and it was not a pleasant experience. If you decide to try a do-it-yourself vinyl wrap, stick with Mark!
The biggest challenge I had in doing this vinyl wrap on an SD12 was how to handle the pair of 90 degree angles where the front platform steps up to the back. I originally made the mistake of stretching out and applying the vinyl from side-to-side instead of front-to-back. This required cutting the vinyl at the top 90 degree angle rather than keeping the vinyl in a single piece across both angles. This left a really rough edge and the lower vinyl piece began to pull away from the angle.
My first option was to completely redo the job with a new piece of vinyl. This requires removing the tuning rods then pulling the neck, changer, pickup and tuning tree. It's a serious amount of work, so instead I decided to try a repair. The idea was to cut a narrow piece at the same point that I originally made the cut and wrap over sealing the rough edge. Luckily I keep all my scrap vinyl pieces and somehow the patterns lined up the way I wanted.
The other major upgrade came care of Mike at Mullen who sold me both the large Mullen and G2 decal for the front panel. This was really the icing on the cake.
So today we had a break from the wildfire grey smoky air we've been living with for the past 10 days! That finally cleared out and we had a bit of actual autumn sunshine so I took some new pics. You can also see the new Lawrence L712 humbucker I'm running along with it's coil tap switch next to the standard Mullen tone controls. Anyway, after 2 years of work and some trial and error, here's the finished version of my vinyl wrapped G2
If this is something you think you might want to try, send me a PM. I'll be happy to share all I've learned in this process so you hopefully can avoid the mistakes I had to make
If you want to have an ongoing discussion, please email me, don't use the Forum messaging which I detest! steelguitarlessons@earthlink.net
