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Guitar… DisASSemble!! Prep for Refinish 1/4

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Guitar… DisASSemble!! Prep for Refinish 1/4

Guitar… DisASSemble!! Prep for Refinish 1/4

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“Steve Cassidy Guitar”

Refinishing a Guitar. (Fazley Phynica/Jet JS400) Here’s where it starts part 1: Dissasembly/stripping the parts. This didn’t go as …

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  4. oh boy, you're in for a world of learning here.
    Heat gun is a ROUGH way to go. I mean it's not a door frame, and that's not gloss paint!
    If you want a finish that shows the wood grain , then ehhhh maybe (even then an appropriate type of chemical paint stripper is better) . But it's a cheap guitar that has already been painted, so chances are they saved all the bodies with good grain characteristics for the clear coated guitars and gave you one with crappy looking grain because you'll never know. So what you actually need to do is epic sanding and a sanding machine would have been the right move. Sand until all the varnish layer is removed and then apply paint on top of existing keyed paint… if it reacts badly sand it down , apply a barrier coat & continue…then…

    There are several stages beyond just applying the paint, most of which require patience , time , and a ludicrous (maybe even dispiriting) amount of sanding with fine paper after each coat. But it looks like you really want to do a youtube video on refinishing a guitar without EVER watching a youtube video on refinishing a guitar. I'm not entirely sure how you've managed to avoid all 7000 of them to date, but it's your right to choose.
    I AM smiling as I type , and I DO wish you all the best. My final parting advice if you wish to improvise; all the things you think are going to be shortcuts , are hazards that lead you down the lonnnnnnnng path, or to dissatisfaction. Those 7000 videos you missed are all the same for a reason 🙂

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  5. Liked and subbed, curious to see how you get on. Good luck, yer gonnae need it, mate…
    I refinished my 1982 Ibanez Iceman II a couple of years ago, with zero previous experience. I can empathise with every step you take lol
    I had stripped the finish off the guitar in the mid 90s and it needed redoing.
    Getting the original finish off took ages and was very messy.
    Be prepared for a lot of sanding, wet and dry. And I do mean a LOT of sanding, lol
    I used black nitro cellulose lacquer. I wouldn't recommend for beginner, like me. It turned out great but the finish was difficult to apply, especially in our Scottish climate with no spray booth or any professional gear. The black also shows every minute imperfection. Still, I enjoyed it. Even learned to solder to rewire it and it now looks, sounds and play fantastically well. Really happy with how it turned out.
    It did take weeks to complete, to allow for drying and curing.
    All the best.

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  6. I just finished refinishing a guitar a few months ago. I made the mistake of wet sanding it. After it dried every place there was a screw hole (pickguard screws, around the tuners, etc) the wood cracked. 🙁 I didn't bother trying to repair the cracks since the pickguard would cover most of it and it's used live so will get dinged and dented eventually.

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  15. Hey Steve, just a thought: why not sand down the clear coat and use the original pink as a 'primer' and overspray it with your colour of choice? Then clear coat it again, done! Hug from Switzerland🎸🤘🏼🎸👊🏼

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  16. So the first time I wanted to refinish a guitar it was because I broke out a big chunk around one of the pots. I can't remember why this happened, but it for sure was stupid and happended because I was to lazy to do something the "right" way.
    Then I started to scrape the lacquer off with a scalpel blade. The intention was to just get the coating off, sand it down a little bit and refinish.
    Turned out I was not talented enough to scrape the coating off and I was hacking away big junks. While doing so I decided to evolve the refinishing job into a relicing job, so I put a little thought in where to torture the poor guitar body and after all it turned out really great. I just sealed the whole thing with an oil finish and sold it afterwards with like 100% profit. The new owner really loved how it looked. It was an inexpensive Mockingbird btw.

    I did all kinds of stupid mistakes when doing things for the first time. I cracked fretboards while removing frets, I filed a nut down so deep I had to replace it, I mixed up hot and ground while soldering. You name it. Every stupid thing you can do wrong I've done wrong and I turned out to be kind of competent now…

    Btw. I hadn't the time to sort the pics from my neck project so far, maybe I get it done this weekend.

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  17. No, no, no, yer doing it all wrongo! 1st thing is, stand with yer back to the East, turn 3 times, throws the salt over the left shoulder while reciting, not singing, Twisted Sister's We're Not Gonna Take It….

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  18. I did the same with a Squier Jaguar bass during lockdown. Poly finish removal was way more time consuming than I had envisioned and very messy. I've stuck it back together blinged out with nice doodats (tuners, pickups, bridge, pots etc.. only think I didn't change was the nut I think). Thoroughly enjoyed it, so much so I'm going to do similar with my Squier VM Mustang – in terms of paint job anyway, it doesn't need as much improvement in terms of hardware as the jag bass did. Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

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  19. I tried refinishing a cheap LP copy once. Covered it in nitromors and it basically just bubbled. Then I used a heat gun, but because the guitar was cheap, it had a glued top on, that ended up separating from the body. At that point with still half of the paint still on the guitar but the front face is the guitar having massive holes in it, I decided that guitar finishing was not for me and threw it all away 🤣🤣

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  21. Steve – This was fun, if you liked the colour on the other guitar could you not have just swapped over the neck and electrics, pick guard and pups ? or did you just want to try a refinish !, enjoyable and fun vid 👍🎸😆

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  22. You're a lot more patient than me sir, I just jump to cutting wires when the leccys come out (theyre normally getting replaced in any case 😉 )
    Cant wait to see the rest of this series 🙂
    Nice job thus far sir 🙂

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  23. Yer haudin that soldering iron like a Boss, Sir! Excellent project, very much looking forward to it. Luckily my only attempt at this was before motion pictures were invented. It was a good solid 1/10 attempt as well, damn 😂

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  24. Once the camera goes on, the brain goes on vacation! That's been my experience, anyways! I have a DIY I stained. Kept it simple with a water-based matte finish. Can't screw that one up, really!

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  25. The only time I have finished a guitar was a self build kit of a T type guitar. I finished it with about 9 or 10 coats of Danish oil. Rubbing down between coats. It looked fine just took ages for the oil to cure.

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