Help! Guitar Paint
- Thread starter SOLO GUITAR STEWIE
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ratherdashing
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Travis H
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Re: Help! Guitar Paint
no were near as bad as striping with paint striper. just take a broom and sweep
no were near as bad as striping with paint striper. just take a broom and sweep
ItsaBass
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IMO sanding is much more messy and much more bad for your health and the environment. I'd rather deal with a goopy mess that I simply take to a hazardous waste collection facility than have to worry about breathing in fine particles of paint, which are impossible to clean up 100 percent, and which end up in the ground and in the air if you simply throw them in the trash can. It is not that stripper is not nasty, just that it is easy to contain and properly dispose of the waste.
IMO sanding is much more messy and much more bad for your health and the environment. I'd rather deal with a goopy mess that I simply take to a hazardous waste collection facility than have to worry about breathing in fine particles of paint, which are impossible to clean up 100 percent, and which end up in the ground and in the air if you simply throw them in the trash can. It is not that stripper is not nasty, just that it is easy to contain and properly dispose of the waste.
brunogio
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You could just use a belt sander to get off the finish. Given how chewed up those routes look it doesn't seem like a candidate for kid glove treatment.
Also just a word of advice, it does look beat up so be wise about how much time and money this project is worth to you.
You could just use a belt sander to get off the finish. Given how chewed up those routes look it doesn't seem like a candidate for kid glove treatment.
Also just a word of advice, it does look beat up so be wise about how much time and money this project is worth to you.
dominus
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The routes aren't chewed up at all. That's paint/lack thereof.
The guitar looks like a Squier Standard Strat. Not a bad guitar for modding at all, but the previous owner was.. too experimental.
Depending on his prepwork (which was probably none), the paint should come right off with a light stripper.
Do NOT sand.
The routes aren't chewed up at all. That's paint/lack thereof.
The guitar looks like a Squier Standard Strat. Not a bad guitar for modding at all, but the previous owner was.. too experimental.
Depending on his prepwork (which was probably none), the paint should come right off with a light stripper.
Do NOT sand.
SOLO GUITAR STEWIE
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Re: Help! Guitar Paint
Thanks guys the paint is chipping off little by little using my fingernails, I don't want to use any sandpaper but what tool could I use to speed up the process besides using my nails?
Yes it is a squier strat in purple metalflake....interesting paint job thats why im trying to save it.
Thanks guys the paint is chipping off little by little using my fingernails, I don't want to use any sandpaper but what tool could I use to speed up the process besides using my nails?
Yes it is a squier strat in purple metalflake....interesting paint job thats why im trying to save it.
dominus
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