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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:41 am
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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 8:48 am
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Unless you wanted to go to a thin nitro finish, is there any reason to strip the original finish? You could leave it on there and shoot your pink finish over it. It would save a huge amount of work!


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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Sun Oct 14, 2012 10:35 am
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What he said.

I remembered that SteMac article because he was stripping to the bare wood and it was a total crapshoot as to what he would find once he stripped the poly off.

I do not know what would be best paint to on on over the poly, that requires research. You don't want to spend time on a new finish and have it chipping/flaking/exposing the original finish. I would talk to paint experts first to be sure.

But yeah. Sand and finish the original poly. Do an Eric Johnson mod to clean down to bare wood under the bridge. Make sure the neck pocket and mount for the neck is clean, square and true.

And POST PICTURES AFTER YOU'RE DONE!!!!!


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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 8:26 am
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Butterscotch wrote:
Unless you wanted to go to a thin nitro finish, is there any reason to strip the original finish? You could leave it on there and shoot your pink finish over it. It would save a huge amount of work!




Well, funny thing you mention that. See when I first started this project I did not know I could do that, this was a long time ago. I now have a primer that will stick to anything, I don't even need to sand it down. I re-finished a strat with that. Nice matte black color. It's awesome. Unfortunately the strat got the "wiser" experience from me.

The tele I started first so I sanded ( long time takin ) down to the wood at some parts, and have heat gunned a good chunk of it ( which since I didn't know what I was doing then managed to singe some small nicks out of the body, really tiny but present none the less. It also had been dropped by a gentleman I let gig with it once and took a pretty gnarly gash out of the finish on the bottom/side/corner by the input jack, that crack has also kinda dented the wood there. So by now, there is so much god awfull uneveness between the failed stripping, failed sanding, failed heat gunning it is pretty uneven from bow to stern. Just figured at this point it'd be easier for me to take the rest of the finish off, fix the light nicks, sand those smooth and spray over top of it.

Besides all that I am a bit of a masochist when it comes to home projects.... somehow, for some reason it's always the hard way.


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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 9:30 am
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Sounds like a 'Relic' with Attitude.. !!

Mask off the bare spots (there are brush-on masks out there), and then spray the thing Salmon - guys don't say Pink !! :P

Just thinkin' out loud...

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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:01 am
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Lightnin MN wrote:
Sounds like a 'Relic' with Attitude.. !!

Mask off the bare spots (there are brush-on masks out there), and then spray the thing Salmon - guys don't say Pink !! :P

Just thinkin' out loud...

cheers!

HAHAHA Seriously the finish I bought is called "Ballarina Slipper Pink" No Joke!


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Post subject: Re: Stripping a Tele
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:09 pm
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DougMasters wrote:
HAHAHA Seriously the finish I bought is called "Ballarina Slipper Pink" No Joke!


Well, you may not be able to strip it... but I think I hear a 'Name' in the making... lol

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