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Post subject: Best way to sand down the lacquer on my neck?
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 1:41 pm
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What is the best tool to use to sand down a neck? I heard it is some kind of wool and then you put some kind of oil on it? Does any body know?


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Post subject: Re: Best way to sand down the lacquer on my neck?
Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 4:14 pm
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What is the best tool to use to sand down a neck? I heard it is some kind of wool and then you put some kind of oil on it? Does any body know?


STEELwool (0000-grade), then lemon oil? The gloss finish on a fine instrument is usually quite thin. It is easy to actually "burn" through a finish when buffing it. You ought to have no trouble ....


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Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:27 pm
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I say get some fine grit sandpaper and sand away until you get to the wood.

It's really no big deal I guess, to each their own, but If I'm thinking about the same steelwool that everybody else is, then it seems like it would take forever to get through the finish with a steelwool pad.

Whew...talk about a finesse job, hehe.


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I've sanded down the high-gloss finnish on the back of the necks on my Strat and my Tele to get a satin-like feel.I used a very fine sand paper and the result was perfect. Nothing to it,really.

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Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:28 pm
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I heard a tongue (I do not know if that is the right spelling or not) oil is good for it after the lacquer is removed. I wonder if lemon oil is the same thing.


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doledeep wrote:
I heard a tongue (I do not know if that is the right spelling or not) oil is good for it after the lacquer is removed. I wonder if lemon oil is the same thing.


It's tung oil btw...

And I don't think lemon oil is good for a MAPLE neck... :shock:


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The steelwool(0000) works great. It takes longer but does not require too much skill. It leaves alot of room for error. My neck is so silky right now, thanks for the advise. I think I am going to put the tung oil on it, unless someone knows of anything better. I am glad that I saved the $100 that was quoted to me and did it myself.


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The steelwool(0000) works great. It takes longer but does not require too much skill. It leaves alot of room for error. My neck is so silky right now, thanks for the advise. I think I am going to put the tung oil on it, unless someone knows of anything better. I am glad that I saved the $100 that was quoted to me and did it myself.


Tung oil can be pretty gooey in it's purer form (like honey). What you want to get is the tung oil formulated as a high-end furniture finish. It's been thinned out with petroleum-based solvents, usually, so keep it away from pets ..... and your salad oil collection.

Cheap grocery store alternatives are lemon oil and walnut oil ....


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doledeep wrote:
The steelwool(0000) works great. It takes longer but does not require too much skill. It leaves alot of room for error. My neck is so silky right now, thanks for the advise. I think I am going to put the tung oil on it, unless someone knows of anything better. I am glad that I saved the $100 that was quoted to me and did it myself.


Use only steelwool grade ''0000'', no sanding papers and no oils.
Oil makes them sticky, sanding paper can ruin you're neck.


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