This post is a bit different than what I normally write about. This post is about my guitar that I’ve had now for about eight years. It was a birthday present and was basically refurbished by one of the guitar shops in my home town. The guitar, a Peavey Raptor Exp Plus, originally looked like this: This was fine and all, but after eight years and quite frankly wanting to upgrade the internals, I decided I’d take the time to first paint the guitar and also modify the pickguard.