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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 11:31 pm
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i was wondering what type of laquer was used on 1979 strats (polyurethane or nitrocellulose)

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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:19 am
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I believe nitrocellulose was still the standard finish back then. That's what was on my '78. Notice I said "was." Long, sad story, but I'm in the process of remedying that! :D

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This trusted resource http://www.provide.net/~cfh/fenderc.html says

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1968 and later Fenders are not entirely AUC (Aliphatic Urethane Coating). What Fender did was seal the body (as always), and then spray the sunburst colors with lacquer. Now instead of using lacquer as the clear coat over the sunburst, they just sprayed two coats of AUC. Also the face of the peghead stayed entirely lacquer, even though the rest of the neck was spray with AUC. This happened because the peghead "Fender" decal reacted with AUC. The problem occured because in 1968 Fender now clearcoated *over* the peghead decal for the first time.


So in the '70s Fender was using a mix of polyurethane and nitrocellulose lacquer. The "thick" part of the thick skin being that underlayer of plastic!

Somewhere in the late '70s, Fender tried water-based paints (for environmental regulatory reasons). I don't know how wide-spread those were used, however. The infamous test (failure) being the 25 Anniversary models.

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