Hi there, nothing to shout about, just a share thread on my diy relic strat.
Life started out for this partscastor as a daphne blue highway one body mated with an eden vintage tint strat neck, loaded with fender 69s. I wasnt happy with the wierd yellow tint and decided to strip the neck down to bare wood and re-finish in nitro lacquer from brightex.
The neck plays nice and smooth now without the sticky feeling of the poly lacquer. I applied the same lacquer to the body but with almost disastrous result. The lacquer tinted the body green and i couldnt get the lacquer out with thinner or even 1 hr plus of wet sanding. I guess theres too much plasticizer in the lacquer? Fortunately the green is pretty even throughout the body so at least from far it looks like a surf green/turquoise color.. zzz.
I resisted relicing the tuners for now for fears that acid will ruin the tuning shafts but the rest of the metal parts got dipped for a good 1hr in brine solution or acid. Interestingly, the guitar sounds less bright now and i think its because of the change of lacquer on the neck.
Its not the finished product yet because the pickguard needs relicing but i couldnt resist just putting her together to play.
In case, i made it sound easy... i mean It was fun but it was also $%^& a lot of work to spray and wet sand the lacquer, really. I'll probably not do it again unless im retired haha.. . anyway thanks for looking!
Life started out for this partscastor as a daphne blue highway one body mated with an eden vintage tint strat neck, loaded with fender 69s. I wasnt happy with the wierd yellow tint and decided to strip the neck down to bare wood and re-finish in nitro lacquer from brightex.
The neck plays nice and smooth now without the sticky feeling of the poly lacquer. I applied the same lacquer to the body but with almost disastrous result. The lacquer tinted the body green and i couldnt get the lacquer out with thinner or even 1 hr plus of wet sanding. I guess theres too much plasticizer in the lacquer? Fortunately the green is pretty even throughout the body so at least from far it looks like a surf green/turquoise color.. zzz.
I resisted relicing the tuners for now for fears that acid will ruin the tuning shafts but the rest of the metal parts got dipped for a good 1hr in brine solution or acid. Interestingly, the guitar sounds less bright now and i think its because of the change of lacquer on the neck.
Its not the finished product yet because the pickguard needs relicing but i couldnt resist just putting her together to play.
In case, i made it sound easy... i mean It was fun but it was also $%^& a lot of work to spray and wet sand the lacquer, really. I'll probably not do it again unless im retired haha.. . anyway thanks for looking!
always feel like doing some light relic but was not given a chance.. hehe.. But i guess you could wet sand that headstock more to remove the orange peel effect you've got there.
