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I definitely didn't say there might be a chance i could keep the existing sealer coat to help blend old wear and new finish.
That would be a silly thing to say before i knew if it was possible
good job I was right!
more vintage white hiding under the neck plate
found the dowels
So i have just done the bulk of the removal on the back. Next step will be to give it a good air dust to remove all the pink dust, then stabilise the old sealer coat with some thinned nitro and capillary action.
i had a little go at the neck pocket too, and found a couple of stamps and the router marks look right
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Now tidied up a bit
I have fully stripped the front and sides because they did not have much sealer coat showing anyway
routes are now full depth and tidied up a bit
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I thought it might be nice to see some progress pics on the finish. Relicing, to me, breaks down into a few stages. tint, wear and dirt. in reality, each of those sages breaks down into a few more
At some, it looks pretty shoddy, but its a series of steps towards something I am happy with.
After masking off the wear, the first stage was a slightly tinted off white. This was colour matched to the bits found in the ferrules and other holes hiding under the red. I don;t actually have a pic of it at that stage.
The intention for this was always heavy tints and discolouration - something to match that original wear i Have worked hard to keep, and looks right against that neck
The first step towards that is a tobacco tint - which looks like this
now that is far too even to make a convincing aged finish. If you look at some heavily aged old teles the colour varies a hell of a lot more. So teh next step was to break up the evenness a bit and add some amber tint too.
Which gets us closer tot he colour I am after
After that, it gets its clear coats and the tape gets pulled off. The edges of the masked wear get some addtional work to help them look more random. which gets us to the last pic we saw
All the tints are done, but it lacks appropriate wear (specifically some checking) and is missing dirt.
So the next stage was some time in the freezer. Checking started to develop nicely, but i wanted a bit more. This one is a mix of freezer checking and the upside down air duster trick. I did a dark stain in the cracks after the freezer, but not after the can, this gives a nice mix of dirt levels in the cracks and avoids the human urge to make things look consistent.
Which gets us to today -
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It's not all about making it look old, the guitar needs to work well too.
This one had a dodgy A-string tuner. On inspection the gears are all okay, but the old grease had combined with years of gunk and set pretty solid. All the tuners were in a similar state, the A-just had a bigger bit of grit working its way round the gears
So a quick job this morning was to dismantle all the tuners, give them a good clean inside, and reassemble.
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