In 1975 I made the mistake of letting a friend talk me into"refinishing" my 65 Strat,since it was only 10 yrs old at the time I had no idea that it was destined to become a $30,000 collectors item.He had a hard time stripping the sunburst finish and took an industrial sander to it and stripped about 1/16 of an inch of wood to get to bare wood.I was so upset when it hit me that I had permitted such a sacrilege that I took the hardware off the body and put all the workings in a walnut Strat body and neck from Double Eagle Guitars and laid the original aside.Some day I'm going to get it put back together and get the body painted an authentic 65 body colour. I bought a used 65 Mustang in 76 that some guy had stripped to the bare finish and refinished it in Candy Apple Blue-the only thing I could find at the time that came close to Daphne Blue.Restoring the Mustang somehow helped make up for the indignity I had performed on the Strat.

My playing

I hope it will recover

Gil