Poly's Off - Naked Baja!!

lovestrat74 · September 2017

Love this guitar it is such a player (as the name suggests) but hated the glossy plastic coat, so started to strip this baby!

Think I am going to oil it up to show off the lovely ash grain, but open to suggestions...

This is not going to be a fast project as I am "supposed" to be finishing off an extension, but managed to squeeze in some time to get this off the ground!

https://imgur.com/a/bS3t4

djspecialist · September 2017

Love my stripped Baja.

Image: https://www.dropbox.com/s/99nmfcqgqamgkgy/IMG_20170319_151644.jpg?raw=1

lovestrat74 · September 2017

djspecialist said:

Love my stripped Baja.

Oh Yes!! Did you strip it? That grain is too nice to hide

lovestrat74 · September 2017

@djspecialist is that a P90 in the neck?

djspecialist · September 2017

lovestrat74 said:

@djspecialist is that a P90 in the neck?

Yes, I think it's an Oil City Mighty 90 prototype - and the bridge is a Bareknuckle Flat 50.

Both were installed by the previous owner, a certain @juansolo, who also stripped and oiled the body.

lovestrat74 · September 2017

djspecialist said:

lovestrat74 said:

@djspecialist is that a P90 in the neck?

Yes, I think it's an Oil City Mighty 90 prototype - and the bridge is a Bareknuckle Flat 50.

Both were installed by the previous owner, a certain @juansolo, who also stripped and oiled the body.

Very cool indeed. I am a fan of the twisted Tele neck pup, but I do love a P90! I would consider something a bit more beefy in the bridge tho as the broadcaster seems a bit screechy to me

juansolo · September 2017

djspecialist said:

lovestrat74 said:

@djspecialist is that a P90 in the neck?

Yes, I think it's an Oil City Mighty 90 prototype - and the bridge is a Bareknuckle Flat 50.

Both were installed by the previous owner, a certain @juansolo, who also stripped and oiled the body.

Yup, you'd have to ask Ash what the pup is, I think it might even be a one-off he had in his drawer that I got. But it was one he'd made specifically for a Tele, works nice and matches surprisingly well with the BKP in the bridge. Jon at Feline did the routing and the pickguard for it.

The refinish job is here for that one: http://juansolo.co.uk/stompage/bajage.html

lovestrat74 · October 2017

First Coat of oil applied

Baja First Coat https://imgur.com/gallery/tNAHM ;

lovestrat74 · October 2017

Bloody mobile does nt add image!!

lovestrat74 · October 2017

Need to get a decent 52 pickguard for this. Any ideas where I cangwt one from??

https://imgur.com/gallery/p6BA0

Alnico · October 2017

I used a Genuine Fender Bakelite guard on mine when I did this.
£40 from Richtone, looked and fitted great and it was a matt finish, not gloss.

Jon at Feline did my paint stripping and oil finish (and the Photo).
Boy did that guitar sing !

https://i.imgur.com/B2yKNk2.jpg

lovestrat74 · October 2017

Cheers @Alnico I'll check out richtone..

Deadman · October 2017

Woah look at that lovely lump of timber. Nice work.

lovestrat74 · October 2017

@Deadman Cheers buddy, I couldn't leave that thick poly on her, she can breathe now!

Corvus · October 2017

Duly wowed, that's a nice transformation ..

Alnico · October 2017

lovestrat74 said:

Cheers @Alnico I'll check out richtone..

It's simply the replacement Fender part for the '52 AVRI Tele.
It's almost certainly available from other Fender dealers as well.

mrkb · October 2017

How did you strip off the original coating - heat gun or sanding?? I want to do the same with a squire tele thinline.

lovestrat74 · October 2017

mrkb said:

How did you strip off the original coating - heat gun or sanding?? I want to do the same with a squire tele thinline.

Scored the surface and then Got the heat gun out

lovestrat74 · October 2017

Alnico said:

lovestrat74 said:

Cheers @Alnico I'll check out richtone..

It's simply the replacement Fender part for the '52 AVRI Tele.
It's almost certainly available from other Fender dealers as well.

Inflationary increase! Now £52 ! I will be looking for a quality non-fender pg ...

lovestrat74 · October 2017

Corvus said:

Duly wowed, that's a nice transformation ..

A worthy exercise me thinks !!

Sesh · October 2017

Alnico said:

Boy did that guitar sing !

Did? Does that mean you don't have it anymore?

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