Actually, it's going to be an Esqire from parts.

The idea is to make a guitar for loud, extreme rock/noise music.

It's going to be as follows.
Esquire/tele body.
Duncan Tele hot rails in a 6 saddle tele bridge.
Maple neck/fingerboard.
Vol/tone/3way switch as follows
1. pickup wired directly to jack bypassing controls
2. pickup with volume and tone
3. kill (pickup grounded)

On, and the vol will pull to tap the hot rail.

Now, my only question; how should I finish it? I'm doing it at home, so a nice high gloss finish is out. I'm thinking flat olive drab green with a black or white pickguard. Also at my work they have a lot of safety stickers like this:
http://www.kencolabel.com/imgs/10636423891.gif

I was thinking of covering it in those and clearcoating it.

Thoughts?

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i like that sticker, but i'd say only put that one on it. right behind the bridge or on the pickgaurd under the strings. if its made out of a nice wood you could stain it and seal it with tung oil. Gunstock wax is also a nice wood seal. i'd stay away from paint if its nice wood.

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That would be nice, however, the body is already primered. It's an aborted body from a class my friend taught on solid body guitar building. Besides, I'm looking for something more weird and monolithic rathe than traditional.

Right on!

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I've always thought Metal Flake is a pretty awesome finish if you don't want anything traditional.

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I really dislike the idea of stickers on guitars.

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ahh well then paint would be the best choice. if you wanted a pro high gloss guitar finish you could prolly take it into a body shop to be sprayed. they might even give you a deal if they've just painted a car and still have paint in the sprayer!

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That's a good idea!

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