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Post subject: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 5:35 am
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Hello, I have the coating on the top of my strat that seems off, I'm afraid of losing the logos!
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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:35 am
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Looks to me like you banged or smashed the top of the headstock with something. Those marks look like depressions in the wood to me. If that is the case, tough luck. You'll just have to deal with it unless you want to pay to have it fixed.

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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:26 am
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The previous owner had left it in a closet for a long time and a mouse had bitten into it, that is the reason why sold it for € 250 last year :oops:

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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 7:59 am
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hi isdi, I wouldn't worry if I were you. Chicks dig scars and all that.

If you really feel a need to do something about it yourself, you could always try to colour match some wood filler to fill the mouse attack marks, remove the tuners, lightly key the surface with wet and dry paper (very lightly!), then mask (tape off) the edges of the headstock and the fretboard so that only the face of the headstock is showing and give it a couple of light coats of clear.

To reduce the chances of weird reactions between different finishes, use whatever it is already finished with - so poly over poly, nitro over nitro. You should be able to find out from the specs sheet for your guitar what the neck was originally finished with, or ask here.

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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:49 am
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Thank you for your advice, for the mouse, but I understand at some key I do not understand what separation of varnish .

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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:29 am
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I suggest leaving it alone or taking it to a professional before you really screw it up.

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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:36 am
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isdi wrote:
Thank you for your advice, for the mouse, but I understand at some key I do not understand what separation of varnish .

Hi isdi: where the varnish is lifting over "contour body"?

Probably if the varnish actually comes off it will leave the contour body decal still in place beneath. In that case if you want you could get an aerosol of polyurethane (it's not an American Vintage guitar with nitro on the neck, is it?) and respray many coats, leaving each to dry and sand flat before spraying the next, until you have filled the gap left by the old lacquer and have a nice smooth surface again. Quite a bit of effort and you may not get an absolutely perfect result.

More likely, if you just leave it the lacquer film will hold together and never fall off. You will always have that light patch where it is not sticking properly, but nothing worse.

That's what I'd do, if I were you.

Like many people, I have the same thing over some of the black dots on the maple fingerboard on one of my Strats. It gives that slightly milky look, but the lacquer has never actually broken and fallen off even though it gets worn by my fingers, so I just leave it alone.

Cheers - C

PS: oops, I see Bill was writing essentially the same thing at the same time I was. 'Cept he said it more succinctly. :)

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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 1:42 pm
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Some people pay extra to get that look, roll with it! :D


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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:02 pm
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BrittB wrote:
Some people pay extra to get that look, roll with it! :D


Adds at least $100 to the resale value of the guitar.

"Strat for sale. Custom relic job by the famous luthier, Mouse." :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2013 6:57 pm
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Add a coat or two of poly...

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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2013 5:11 am
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Thank you friends, for your answers and good advice and I will leave for now and show it to a luthier one day, not wanting to do such a thing myself.
And then it gives it a vintage goes well because it is a classic 50s which I put 57/62.
Finally, it will be relic and as some have said, it will grow in value ! :lol:

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Post subject: Re: Problem head on varnish
Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2013 4:28 pm
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I had the exact same problem with an old 1993 MIM Strat I used to own. It was a 'squire series' 1 vol, 1 tone Floyd rose model.

The squire logo was coming unstuck underneath the logo as well as the 'Fender' logo had a split in it. This happened not long after purchasing it. Anyways, I had an after school job with a luthier that I helped out, and as for payment he fixed it for me. The Squier logo was a gonna- that couldn't be saved. But the rest of it he somehow bled some adhesive or lacquer under the logo with a syringe type of instrument. After that, I obliged when he offered to tint my neck with a nice vintage looking tan brown that had a matte feel to it. Hey presto, fixed.

I wish I had a photo of that guitar to show :oops:

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