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Post subject: American Standard Hand Rubbed Issue
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 12:49 pm
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I recently purchased an wine red hand rubbed american standard strat. When I used it out for the first time, after about an hour of playing, the white shirt I was wearing had huge wine red stain on it where the guitar was resting against me. Has anyone else ever had this happen with a satin lacquer finish? I've had other lacquer finished guitars that have never bled color like that. The customer service person I spoke to said that's normal for lacquer finished guitars, but if that were the case, people would be ruining shirts all the time and that's not the case.


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Post subject: Re: American Standard Hand Rubbed Issue
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:14 pm
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It is rubbed on(in) nitro lacquer it is normal. Gibson uses that finish on the faded series.
You can polish the finish and it gets shiny and doesn´t color shirts any longer then.
The back of the neck on those Gibson guitars get shiny really fast when playing because the fretting hand polishes them.

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Post subject: Re: American Standard Hand Rubbed Issue
Posted: Mon Feb 25, 2013 1:26 pm
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Should I use a polish on it to try and seal the back or just let it polish on it's own from use? If I use naptha on it, will that remove some of the pigment suspended in the lacquer so it will stop ruining shirts quicker. I'd really like to use it more, but can't afford a new shirt every night until it stops.
This is my first satin lacquer finished guitar.....I've had numerous guitars over the years, but they have all been either finished with poly or glossy nitro.


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Post subject: Re: American Standard Hand Rubbed Issue
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2013 5:44 am
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I used an old cotton tshirt on my Gibson SG faded. Don´t use naphtha it is highly dangerous and destroys any finish.
I am sure an auto polish should work (silicon free and usable for nitro) but as I said I used the tshirt and many hours of work.
Maybe give it a try on the back side of the guitar first so you can see if you like the result.

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Post subject: Re: American Standard Hand Rubbed Issue
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 6:58 am
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Couple coats of lacquer paint clear coat should do the trick, but you'll have to completely strip the guitar down first..

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Post subject: Re: American Standard Hand Rubbed Issue
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:54 am
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First of all, I'm being a nitpicker here, so apologies for that.

The guitar in question is hand stained (the body, that is), which means the wood is stained by hand, then laqcuered thinly on top of that. Making that (silly) point, because Fender uses hand rubbed finishing on some models, say the neck on Select Strat HSS.

I'm all for using proper products designed by the manufacturer (in this case, Fender(R) Guitar Polish part #0990536000, accompanied by the appropriate Fender(R) cloths). That's what I'd recommend.

Still, Robinstrat, I've occasionally used naphtha (in the form of Zippo fluid) on probably all my guitars (violins, mandolins...) and never had it destroy the finish (nitro, poly or shellac) during my forty(ish) years of guitar maintenance (as a side hobby to playing). And I'd bet that was the most common & readily available stuff used for guitar cleaning before those factory made special products came along...
Old T-shirts to polish a guitar... now that's a no-no for me. 8)


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