Body finish/build up help needed.

[kramersteen]

Re: Body finish/build up help needed.

Pretty much the only way to truly make a plug dissapear is to veneer over the top of everything. I plugged a neck pup route on a guitar, and after a while the finish "sank" or shrunk or whatever and the line stuck out visibly. Being black didn't help... I tried wood putty, Bondo, epoxy, nothing kept it from coming back. If you just want a solid color, scuff the poly with 220 or so, fill gouges/dings in with filler (or thick super glue), prime and paint (and use a dummy pickup) and you'll be just fine. If you HAVE to have wood grain showing, plug the pickup route with any hardwood, sand the top down real good and flat, veneer it with what you like, and it'll be a whole new guitar.

once you plug the area you can dremel around the joins and fill them. It works but yeah not ideal.

 

[Zerberus]

Re: Body finish/build up help needed.

once you plug the area you can dremel around the joins and fill them. It works but yeah not ideal.

Still causes the same issue in the long term, just that the dips are now 1mm+ wide instead of hairline. It will buy you some time, but it´s still a bandaid where a tourniquet would be appropriate

 

[kramersteen]

Re: Body finish/build up help needed.

Yeah its not really worth it unless its covered, You get mixed results . I have done it on maybe 4 guitars. I think a lot of the time people use ****ty wood filler too which makes the situation worse. If you ever notice on cheaper guitars from factory they fill voids in the timber with what looks/smells like bog and they don't seem to move as much.

Even this warrior i am working on at the moment has some bog in the cutaway as it enters the neck pocket. :headbang: