Installation

Cleaning

Cleaning your SG before installation of your skinz is VERY important

for proper adhesion. It should be cleaned

with a glass or general purpose cleaner.

Jump to pick guard

Fret Board

After cleaning surface, it is time to prepare the skinz for installation.

This is the way your skin will look out of the package.

It has a backing paper to protect the adhesive, and a

clear tape, called mounting tape, on top.

Turn the skin over and fold back a corner of the backing

paper. While holding the exposed corner of the mounting tape,

slowly peal back the backing paper making sure the skin stays

on the mounting tape. When completed it should look like this.

Notice that you can see between the individual segments of

the fret board, this is very useful in properly aligning your fret

board.

Working in a well lit area, hold the fret skin slightly above

the fret board (Do NOT let it touch) and look down through

clear mounting tape and align the skin with the raised fret

lines. Beginning at the top, the left hand in this example,

begin sticking down the individual sections one at a time.

Don't worry about sealing down the edges of each segment

at this point you will go back and do this after all segments are installed.

When you start to see misalignment between frets, usually after

5 or 6, carefully peal up the mounting tape from the frets you

already have applied. (this misalignment occurs because of the

 raised fret bars, which do vary in height from controller to controller.)

After carefully removing the mounting tape, your controller

should look like this, and the remainder of the fret fret skin is

still attached to the mounting tape.

Now follow the same steps again to install the remaining

parts of the fret skin. (for perfect fitment you could install

each segment individually, but you must be VERY careful

to keep your side to side alignment correct.)

After removing the mounting tape, you should rub down

all segments of fret skin to insure good adhesion. Use your

fingernail as shown to seal down edges at each fret bar.

Make sure to repeat the process for both the top and bottom

of each segment until all are done.

Pick Guard

After cleaning your controller as described at the top of

the page, you will have to prep the pick guard before

removing it from it's backing paper. using a sharp knife

cut out the backing paper covering the hole where the

strum bar goes, this doesn't need to be a perfect hole,

making sure you don't cut the skin. Lift out the piece of

mounting tape.

Next remove the backing paper from the pick guard,

using the same technique as you did for the fret board.

You will then have your entire skin and mounting tape,

with the hole to clear the strum bar, ready for installation.

Again, as you did with the fret board, carefully hold the skin

above the controller without touching it and align the skin

for installation. (The alignment of this piece is CRITICAL,

as it has many compound curves. the slightest misalignment will cause

this piece to fit incorrectly in many places.)

When you are satisfied with your alignment begin to apply

skin by  starting at one end of the strum bar opening, and

rub it down all the way around the strum bar opening.

Then begin rubbing down the remainder of the skin,

working from the strum bar outwards, making sure that all

areas are sealed down for proper adhesion.

After skin has been rubbed down, carefully peal off

the mounting tape. Then, using fingernail as in the

fret board installation, make sure and seal down edges

around the strum bar.

That's it, you new SG Pimp skinz is ready

to rock out!