Re: Decided to Remove a Horrible Finish on a Jaguar Today and got a pleasant surprise
Definitely an improvement and IMO well worth the time and effort. Was actually expecting you to say "... so 3 months and about 300 hours later...".
Congrats man!
Honestly, that's about what I was expecting too. The fact that this happened was a huge surprise to me, haha.
Oh, that is just beautiful. Looks like the old wooden furniture in my grandparents old house. Nice, old, vintage look. I really like that.
But you say you don't need it? It's routed for humbuckers. Get a new pickguard and put what you need in it.
After this my Girlfriend is trying to get me to keep it (or give it to her) haha. But really I've had this Jag for a little over a year now, and other than being my short scale gigging guitar (specificially for songs with really long stretches), It never gets used. It's not a bad sounding guitar, just never bonded with it. Maybe if it doesn't sell in a bit I'll try something, maybe p-90's or mini-buckers?
But I'm hoping I can move it for something I'll use more...if for no other reason than, Now that its natural, I really wanna see how it'd look with gold hardware, and spitfire tort.....And I really don't need to be spending that kinda money, haha.
Looks like 3 to me. One line by the middle of the bridge and another to the right.
Looking at it close up in person it really looks like two pieces, specially looking at the back. But I did also see that weird line down by the bridge, so I definitely see what you're talking about. If it is a three piece the matched the grain really well at the very least.
Wow, nice! Wear gloves when getting all of that stuff off, though. It can't be good for your skin.
I started off wearing gloves...But they kept melting so I gave up. haha.
I happen to have a Warmoth tortoise pickguard routed for two minihbs...
Hmmm....If I end up having this for awhile longer, you may be receiving a message from me.
I had my eye on that guitar, and that's pretty much what I was gonna do to it if I ended up getting it from ya. Though I would refinish it afterward.
That poly you got down to is the sealer coat that Fender puts under their lacquer finished guitars (except certain Custom Shop ones). It's the modern equivalent of the Fullerplast of "yesteryear." Fullerplast started around '63, so it is actually fairly vintage accurate, even on a guitar that is supposed to be lacquer finished.
Also worth mentioning at this point that the '60's metallics were actually acrylic lacquer, not nitrocellulose. The final clear coats were nitro, but not the metallic color coats.
In other words, that thing is ready to have a "proper" vintage finish applied to it, and it'll be more vintage accurate than it ever was.
Still trying to figure out how to procure it.
It's still available, so I saved ya a step, haha. An yeah, if I end up not selling/trading it, I'll probably do a full refinish in a different color at some point (not a fan of wood grain on Fenders). (also, semi unrelated plug...I actually updated that trade/sale thread with a list of trade idea's for the various things in there, so...)
I actually did know that about the original acrylic Duoco custom color finishes from the 60's though. I always thought it was interesting that Vintage Custom Color fenders were worth so much more than the Standard finish on the same model, being as people tend to obsess over nitro. Though those finishes are still rather thin, and that seems to be the more important factor. And obviously rarity is the reason for the price difference, more than finish material. It's always just seemed interesting to me, since it seems alot of people don't know that the Metallic custom colors are not actually nitro.
But yeah, if you're interested feel free to PM me, might be able to work something out.
