Does Respraying make your guitar not as good as before? - Fi

[Cycovision]

Hi,

I want to get an Ibanez Sabre like Jim Davies from pitchshifter (All Black Guitar) but ibanez don't do a black one with two humbuckers (So the Web Site Says). If I get one I would like to get it resprayed black by a proffesional (I would mess it up if I did it!). My friends say that it isn't the same if you get it resprayed as you have to sand the body and everything ?

What are people's experiences and views about respraying?

Also can you fit EMG 81 and 85 humbuckers into a sabre as the body is thin so I thought that the battery would not go anywhere????? (Can it??).

Thanks Everyone!

-Anyone know any good companies in the uk for respraying??