alterbridgefan
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Yes, I know. Another project. Shut up.
I have an old strat project lying around I need to do something with. So my Dad gave me the strat around a year ago when I began to get into this whole addiction. It was a fricking mess, my dad had tried many things when he was younger with it. It was supposed to be his #1, but he made so many mistakes in modding it that he couldn't use it. He has many regrets behind that guitar, and I'm looking forward to fixing it up, to his tastes rather than mine. He has similar tastes to many around here, so while I get the finish off the jag, I thought this would be fun.
When he gave it to me I sanded the finish off the front impulsively. It needs a lot of body work anyways so I'm sort of ok with that, but the color is amazing, and the wear on the back is absolutely beautiful. Technically, some of the back is relic'd, but only from me trying various lazy methods of removing a finish.. I tried a chisel at one point. :toothy12: So the back looks great, for the most part, but after I do the body work in front I'm afraid I may have to do a whole refin. But I'm wondering, could I possibly match the color, using lacquers, knowing that this finish is not lacquer? I would of course want to overspray the front relic it all again afterwards, but perhaps I could preserve some of the finish?
Body and neck have been routed for a floyd, so...
The man I sold the two floyds to is considering selling me back the one without the fine tuners, it's really beginning to grow on me. The floydness without being so dang ugly, it's really nice... Dad mentioned that it functioned better as well.
Dad routed it for some switching lights in the early 80's, maybe useful but really cheesy. It's in the cutaway horn, so I'm thinking I may get a toggle put in there rather than a 5 way switch. Two knobs, 1 vol. 1 tone, out of the way.
Not sure if I'll mess with the neck much. It's got one of the most comfortable finishes ever, I wish I new what it was. It's a hard finish, like lacquer, but with a duller finish that doesn't gloss up, nice and thin like lacquer, but ridiculously hard. Just plain cool. It's got a few holes in the front of the headstock from drilling out ruined screws, not sure whether to paint the headstock or just put a big sticker over them. :laughing7:
Ok, the stupid fricking inserts. There are these pickguard screw inserts in the wood, t inserts with walnut plugs, but the idiots drilled the holes for an anodized pickguard he got with it, and no other pickguards will fit. I figure I need to remove them, pics to follow.
And lastly, I stupidly sanded off a concert sticker that my Dad had on the front, a reminder of his short lived success in San Francisco before life caught up with him. My mother has a concert flyer with the same design on it, I plan on finding it, scanning it, and recreating and wearing to the same extent a brand new replica. Just a sentimental thing for him.
Any help and encouragement is awesome. Thanks guys.
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Yes, I know. Another project. Shut up.
I have an old strat project lying around I need to do something with. So my Dad gave me the strat around a year ago when I began to get into this whole addiction. It was a fricking mess, my dad had tried many things when he was younger with it. It was supposed to be his #1, but he made so many mistakes in modding it that he couldn't use it. He has many regrets behind that guitar, and I'm looking forward to fixing it up, to his tastes rather than mine. He has similar tastes to many around here, so while I get the finish off the jag, I thought this would be fun.
When he gave it to me I sanded the finish off the front impulsively. It needs a lot of body work anyways so I'm sort of ok with that, but the color is amazing, and the wear on the back is absolutely beautiful. Technically, some of the back is relic'd, but only from me trying various lazy methods of removing a finish.. I tried a chisel at one point. :toothy12: So the back looks great, for the most part, but after I do the body work in front I'm afraid I may have to do a whole refin. But I'm wondering, could I possibly match the color, using lacquers, knowing that this finish is not lacquer? I would of course want to overspray the front relic it all again afterwards, but perhaps I could preserve some of the finish?
Body and neck have been routed for a floyd, so...
The man I sold the two floyds to is considering selling me back the one without the fine tuners, it's really beginning to grow on me. The floydness without being so dang ugly, it's really nice... Dad mentioned that it functioned better as well.
Dad routed it for some switching lights in the early 80's, maybe useful but really cheesy. It's in the cutaway horn, so I'm thinking I may get a toggle put in there rather than a 5 way switch. Two knobs, 1 vol. 1 tone, out of the way.
Not sure if I'll mess with the neck much. It's got one of the most comfortable finishes ever, I wish I new what it was. It's a hard finish, like lacquer, but with a duller finish that doesn't gloss up, nice and thin like lacquer, but ridiculously hard. Just plain cool. It's got a few holes in the front of the headstock from drilling out ruined screws, not sure whether to paint the headstock or just put a big sticker over them. :laughing7:
Ok, the stupid fricking inserts. There are these pickguard screw inserts in the wood, t inserts with walnut plugs, but the idiots drilled the holes for an anodized pickguard he got with it, and no other pickguards will fit. I figure I need to remove them, pics to follow.
And lastly, I stupidly sanded off a concert sticker that my Dad had on the front, a reminder of his short lived success in San Francisco before life caught up with him. My mother has a concert flyer with the same design on it, I plan on finding it, scanning it, and recreating and wearing to the same extent a brand new replica. Just a sentimental thing for him.
Any help and encouragement is awesome. Thanks guys.
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