Sanding of Guitar Necks

[Mr. Nice]

Hi there,

Does anyone know any good shop that can help sand down back of the guitar neck? My hands sweat quite a bit so the neck can get sticky after a while of playing.

Its a Fender Strat and their official site states the finish is urethane, but I've heard the newer Fender models (mine included as its a 2000-ish model) have very thick multiple layers of finishes that are really tough to remove.

Any thoughts/ideas on the topic are welcome! Thanks in advance!

 

[slowth]

you can actually do it yourself.

Just get 0000 steel wool from home fix or something and just lightly sand the back of your neck. You'll get the lovely satin feel back.. repeat every few months when it gets glossy/sticky again.

 

[ShredAddict]

guitar connection does such jobs. you can check with them.

 

[kuang89]

you can actually do it yourself.

Just get 0000 steel wool from home fix or something and just lightly sand the back of your neck. You'll get the lovely satin feel back.. repeat every few months when it gets glossy/sticky again.

yup..i had 2 epiphone les pauls, one i completely got rid of the paint to bare wood, the another i just ran sand paper thru it..remember to keep playing tho..the sweat n grime on ur hands will "coat" the bare wood n make it super smooth

 

[Mr. Nice]

Hey guys thanks for the reply! I thought of doing it DIY style to save some cash and what not. Moreover, it seems like a pretty straightforward job. I think. Haha.

Anyway, I have 2 other quetions:
1) When do I know its time to stop sanding down the neck?
2) Should I go through a few rounds of sand paper before the steel wool? I read some forums which mentioned using sandpaper before steel wool.

Thanks once again!

 

[slowth]

actually depends on how far u wanna go... if like me u just wanna remove the grime and the gloss and make it a nice smooth matte feel, the steel wool's more than enough, a few runs would do it. Then i'd just do that in another 6 months.

if u wanna be like kuang and go all the way to the bare wood, i'd say take it slow.. not using anything rougher than 300/500 grit? u won't wanna use 80 and then change its profile.
not sure how well bare wood would take to our humidity as well in the long run.

 

[kuang89]

actually depends on how far u wanna go... if like me u just wanna remove the grime and the gloss and make it a nice smooth matte feel, the steel wool's more than enough, a few runs would do it. Then i'd just do that in another 6 months.

if u wanna be like kuang and go all the way to the bare wood, i'd say take it slow.. not using anything rougher than 300/500 grit? u won't wanna use 80 and then change its profile.
not sure how well bare wood would take to our humidity as well in the long run.

agree, must see wat kind of sand u mean, if u want to the jimmy page sanding, where the neck actually loses pieces of wood to make it thinner then u'll need a workbench, or if just make it so tat even wif sweaty palms the neck wun be sticky then really sand abit can liao

for how much u want to sand, i'd think its good to sand lightly...i have 2 guitars which i've done work on the neck, the black lp, i took it to the bare wood and the lp custom, i just removed the thin shiny coat of paint. i think wat TS wants is to remove the shiny/sticky..i used sandpaper, wet cloth, dry cloth..sandpaper dun so rough and dun go fine either, becos if too fine, u might end up using alot of strength to sand n bad for neck..

first sand a thin amount evenly across the neck, then wet cloth it to get rid of fine dust, n use dry cloth..then play abit, if still buay tahan then do again lor