Superstrat refinish

[Cagey]

But the cat came back
the very next day
The cat came back
we thought he was a goner
But the cat came back
it just couldn't stay away

 

[stratamania]

Hey it looks a lot better now, nil desperandum is sometimes the order of the day.

 

[xntrick]

Here it is all back together, very happy with the new look. Getting a shot that shows the grain and reflection is almost impossible it seems, might have to get out my giant light kit at some point. I don't have a baritone in my collection which is something I will start saving up for next year. I think a lemon drop finish with chrome hardware might look good. This time around I will try out the samples of stain on a test piece of wood and I'll also consider a "primer" coat first, that seems to hep make the finish a lot smoother.

 

[Cagey]

Well, it appears you fell in a cesspool and came out with a new suit. Very nicely done!

How do you like that vibrato? It seems everybody either loves or hates them; no bell to the curve. Looks very much like a Kahler, which recent experience has left me with good impressions of.

 

[xntrick]

Well, it appears you fell in a cesspool and came out with a new suit. Very nicely done!

How do you like that vibrato? It seems everybody either loves or hates them; no bell to the curve. Looks very much like a Kahler, which recent experience has left me with good impressions of.

I really like that trem. My first 2 guitars had floyds in them and I hated those things. This one rarely causes strings to break, I don't need a wrench to change strings and it mounts flat so I don't have to remove a chunk of wood. You do get used to them as they have a different feel to them.

 

[Cagey]

Good to hear. I wouldn't go so far as to say I hate Floyds - I mean, they do work after all, which is more than you can say about most trems - but they can certainly try your patience. Are you getting a good return to neutral with that unit, or do you have to tap/pull it to make it center back up?

 

[xntrick]

If you go nuts with it ala Hendrix you do have to pull up on it, but generally it goes back in tune quite well.

 

[stubhead]

On the face of it, it seems kind of odd that most everyone with a big enough pile of home-rolleds ends up with at least one reddish-brown or brownish-red guitar:



But then, you can start to delve into the mysteries of color mixing with either a color wheel or just a bunch of little bottles of different color dyes (or inks... or RIT - your Easter eggs, orange soda, tie-dye T-shirts, fountain pens, and guitars are all feeding at the same basic aniline-dye trough. Give or take a few preservatives & other deadly poisons :toothy11 And what you find is that as you move towards the center of the color wheel mix-wise, every combination is eventually leading you towards either... reddish-brown, or... greeny-gray mud.

You can even get some jollies on a computer going to: control panel->display->background and open the custom color doohickey - you can specify numeric blends, or just mouse around a bit.

 

[xntrick]

I got so tired of photobucket emailing me about hosting photos on their site. Hopefully these are ok on Imgur.

 

[Dazkeirle]

Hey great recovery from the shoe polish incident.

Refinishing is always full of surprises.

If it's any consolation I started with the last photo before reading the back story, didn't spot any of the polish in the body, just looked like a nice complex grain / finish job/ Has a nice natural Mahogany hue to it.

I too have seen people use leather polish so I'm surprised it had this adverse affect, it's something I've considered myself even.

Whenever I need to strip anything out of wood now, my go to is Acetone. There's very little that won't remove.

 

[PhilHill]

Nice recovery from a bad place. Been there. And the best part is you learned a lot. Learning is never bad. Your next one will be even better. :headbang: