This is the first video in a series about refinishing / restoring this guitar.
I've had this guitar for many years, and I've always been curious about how to refinish it. In this video I show the process I went through to remove the old paint off the guitar - which might sound like a simple task, but trust me, it's more complicated than it first seems! Removing the finish requires a specific set of stages, and this is one of the most important things you have to do to create a high quality refinish.
I show how I use a sheet sander to remove the paint, and how I used a heat gun & scraper to remove the paint. I found that the most effective way to remove the finish is to use a paint stripper - I used EZ strip, which luckily, isn't harmful or toxic. A lot of the process requires hand sanding, which can be tedious. Using a sanding block helped.
One question I stumbled upon during this process was "should I sand through the sealer coat?" and surprisingly, I couldn't find an easy, simple answer. Some sources say that you absolutely should remove the sealer coat, so the new nitrocellulose finish can soak into the wood grain, while other sources say that you can spray nitro over poly as long as the poly is cured. In my case, the sealer coat became damaged due to the heat gun & scraper process, so I wanted to get rid of it so I can spray the new coats onto a bare wood surface.
I hope you find this video helpful!
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27 сен 2024
