Guitar Polish... Meguiars Bodyshop products

[PFDarkside]

I've got a couple of guitars I'd like to clean up, polish out some swirls and a few scratches and get them looking good. (Poly finished Fenders and Warmoth in my case)

I remembered all the Meguiars products I used to use to get my sports car looking sweet and wondered if I could use them in guitar finishes.

After a little searching, it turns out Meguiars used to supply the Fender cleaning and polishing kits! Not only that, but according to Meguiars they were just rebranded bodyshop products...

http://www.meguiarsonline.com/forums/showthread.php?46230-Meg-s-7-on-guitars

We used to make the Fender Guitar maintenance kits and, while rebranded, it essentially consisted of M09 Swirl Remover 2.0, M07 Show Car Glaze and M34 Final Inspection. This has been a long standing process for maintaining nitrocellulose lacquer finishes because it works so well.

I found a few other references to Martin having the big bottles at their factory.

So, long story longer, if you happen to have any of the above listed products (all are silicone free, aka bodyshop safe) that you use on your car, they may make good products to use on your guitar as well.

Fender:

Meguiars:

I've still got a ton of Dunlop 65, but that is just wax and cleaner, no real abrasives to work on scratches or swirls. I may give some M09 a go...

 

[Warlag]

Re: Guitar Polish... Meguiars Bodyshop products

Before they stoped makeing the fender meguiars sets I bought a few of them cause I was a huge fan of there car cleaning stuff and knew it would be really good. I'm useing my last one now to be honest so this post came just in time! I was wondering lately what I was going to use when it was gone... now I know what to get! :headbang: Thanks for the info!

 

[PFDarkside]

Re: Guitar Polish... Meguiars Bodyshop products

Cool, glad it helped!

Is that your Crash-o-caster in your avatar?

 

[Warlag]

Re: Guitar Polish... Meguiars Bodyshop products

Yep! One of my favourites for sure. It's one of the ones done by The Painted Player in London I think he is from. I'd like to get another Eric Clapton strat... Always wanted to have a Blackie too. There's too many things I want! Hahaha

 

[ICTGoober]

Re: Guitar Polish... Meguiars Bodyshop products

Lacquer doesn't care what we put it on. When I purchased acylic lacquer to refinish guitars - I went to the auto paint store. So, yeah - Meguiars will work on any lacquer, on a car, or a guitar.