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Post subject: Wax on- wax off
Posted: Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:45 pm
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Twenty years ago I had a friend who painted cars. He was very good at it and had work featured in Hot Rod Magazine. He would tell me that the quickest way to ruin a Lacquer finish was to wax it. Since then I have not used wax on my Jazz bass and the bass shines really nice without wax, anybody ever heard of this?

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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 2:22 am
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That is a surprising statement. It would be good for business though since you'd be repainting all your friends cars way more often due oxidation. (Had a next door neighbor who bought a black 1965 GTO brand new. He waxed it every Saturday that it didn't rain 52 weeks of the year for 4 years that I know of. No kidding. If wax was bad for nitro it would not have had any paint left on it. That car was so slick that when he hit bugs they just slid off.)

The problems you can get into are: 1. Using waxes and polishes with abrasives. Many paste car waxes have this. 2. Polish products with reactive chemicals like silicone. Both are bad news for guitars.

As long as you stick to pure 100% carnauba wax there should be no reactivity with nitrocellulose or today's plastic either.

I would think that the carnauba wax would be very beneficial especially on the quick to wear upper bout of any painted finish guitar. It would add a very thin layer of wax to wear away instead of the paint. If you put just a little carnauba there on the upper bout every month or so you'd be extending the life of the finish.

What your friend had to say certainly was news to me.


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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 8:19 am
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He might have been implying how some people will ruin a nice new paint job with a bad wax job.

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