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Location: Upper Left USA | Please allow me to offer myself up to the communal OFC. I am down to bare wood with a Viper body and I need to commit on the finish treatment.
First I will let any of you that think a refinish is sacrilegious ponder and understand the following:
·I was looking for a Project when I started.
·The eBay interpretation of “normal dings and wear” takes a very wide swath of understanding.
·Poly-cataclysmic Coatings are a wonder to behold (and a @#$% to remove) but once they are penetrated they resemble those bowling balls left too long in the public domain.
At first I had planned for a quick Tung Oil coat or two, which would be quick and allow easy repair at later times.
Then I researched sites like Reranch.com, StewMac and such that make the lacquer application sound like fun and overly easy.
The question is do I want take on a full fledged deep dish finish project or do I go with the “Play it Sooner” option and postpone it till later?
I would appreciate any of your success or failure stories for encouragement! |
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Location: SoCal | Go "deep & full finish". Never done it and never will, but I like to make people sweat. |
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Location: Florida | Let me get this right... you want to strip it and do a total refin?
Ita brute job of work if you've got no dust control. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Do what your used to. In your house, do have heavily stained laquered pieces, or do you have lightly oiled pieces? If your taste in furniture goes towards the latter (ie letting wood be wood), which is what I'd recommend, you can fix and change things easier later on. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | On the Warmoth necks I've done I get the stewmac lacquer and spray that. About $8.00 a can. |
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ....just pour a can of Behr 50 over it.... :rolleyes: :eek: :D |
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Location: Waurika OK | Try
www.projectguitar.com
They have some pretty good tutorials.
noel |
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Posts: 13997
Location: Upper Left USA | If a well placed Shop Vac counts as dust control I was ok! Actually, I chemically stripped 80%, manually scruffed another 10% and Dremel sanded the inside radii. It is now bare wood which is actually three pieces bonded. For now I will just buff out the neck which is blonde with a maple fretboard.
I am making three laminated veneer pickguards in different woods. Bar any big mistakes this will give me choice over the tone and grain. Covers will be Bubinga burl, quilted Walnut or some other wood I lost the label to.
I am leaning toward filling the grain, sanding to smoove, staining a reddish mahogany and applying the Stewmac clear coats.
The Project Guitar site is very cool - saw it earlier. Any more ideas or accomplishments?
BTW - I have a can of Behr 50 for our Chainsaw Bear. Goes on like maple syrup! |
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Posts: 648
Location: Florida | Ok... this is no big secret...
But there is a product called Deft, available in matte, satin and gloss. It is laquer with drying retarding agent and bit of anti-blush built in.
Comes in cans... Home Depot sells it. Clear only. Works GREAT. I've tried all the spray laq's, and this is THE BEST, bar non.
If you're intent on laquer, use this for your clearcoats. |
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