help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

[ravendouglas]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

this worked real well on my Gibson SG black paint, its a 2 part system.
http://www.virtuosopolish.com/

thanks for the link..this is why i keep a note book and pen next to me when i come here.

 

[ravendouglas]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

this worked real well on my Gibson SG black paint, its a 2 part system.
http://www.virtuosopolish.com/

does this product remove the scratches we are talking about and thank you again for the info..thank every one who took the time out to offer help .

 

[ratherdashing]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

my guitars mean as much to me as yours do to you..if i had a les paul i would treat it the same way........what?, just because my guitar cost less than a grand ,i should not take pride in its condition?.....for your info...i have had les pauls and they were treated like royalty...just like my esp...we dont play names ,we play guitars...and i take care of mine.

I just ... don't see the point is what I'm saying. I think that if you just accepted that your guitars will get a bit of wear and tear on them from playing, you will feel a lot better about them.

As for cost, some people want to protect their really nice guitars to preserve them as investment pieces. I still think that's kind of dumb, but at least it makes sense on one level. Putting that level of nit-picking and obsession into your guitar just doesn't make sense to me at all.

But hey, it's your instrument and you're entitled to do whatever you want with it. If it were mine, I would just play the damn thing and not worry about it too much. There's not much point in stressing out over minor, inconsequential things like that. The world is stressful enough as is.

And for the record, I own five electric guitars and only one of them cost me more than a grand. I treat them all the same way.

 

[ravendouglas]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

I just ... don't see the point is what I'm saying. I think that if you just accepted that your guitars will get a bit of wear and tear on them from playing, you will feel a lot better about them.

As for cost, some people want to protect their really nice guitars to preserve them as investment pieces. I still think that's kind of dumb, but at least it makes sense on one level. Putting that level of nit-picking and obsession into your guitar just doesn't make sense to me at all.

But hey, it's your instrument and you're entitled to do whatever you want with it. If it were mine, I would just play the damn thing and not worry about it too much. There's not much point in stressing out over minor, inconsequential things like that. The world is stressful enough as is.

And for the record, I own five electric guitars and only one of them cost me more than a grand. I treat them all the same way.

i get all of that ..i guess this is my case queen as they like to call it....and no body will ever touch her again but me.lol

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

Anytime you want to clean and detail my bathroom let me know, you're really clean! :joke:

 

[108Dragon]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

View attachment 21455...better pic

"Battlescars" add character to an otherwise characterless instrument. Some of the coolest, most memorable, and most killer guitars are "beaters". All of my guitars have dents, dings, and whatnot... Nice axe, but don't get all hung up on keeping it "prestine" if you SERIOUSLY gig with it.
Besides, all thats going to happen is eventually you're going to "pass on" and someone is going to inherit a "prestine" ESP guitar to tear up. Enjoy it now for what it is.

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

There is something to be said about keeping guitars pristine if they have a chance of appreciating in value. I'm sure most of us would like a few vintage Les Paul's with no scratches.

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

There is something to be said about keeping guitars pristine if they have a chance of appreciating in value. I'm sure most of us would like a few vintage Les Paul's with no scratches.

Show up with a vintage Les Paul (or Strat, or whatever) without a mark on it, and how many of us would believe it's authentic? Show me a guitar that's forty, fifty, sixty years old -- and looks like it -- and I'll show you a living witness to history. That guitar will whisper stories to you, if you listen closely.

 

[108Dragon]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

There is something to be said about keeping guitars pristine if they have a chance of appreciating in value. I'm sure most of us would like a few vintage Les Paul's with no scratches.

For what? So it can sit in your "vault" and do nothing? Or so you can tear up a "prestine" vintage Les Paul? Thats like buying a new 700hp Corvette ZR and letting it sit, hoping it'll appreciate in value... for what? Drive the dogsh** out of it and sell it before it gets too beat up to be worth anything. That way, when you're old and haggard, you can say "Been there, done that, bought the Corvette".
I have a friend with a '59 Vette split window coupe. Just sits in the garage. He goes out and looks at it every now and again. As bad a$$ as the 327 fuelie was in the day, it ain't got nothin' for a new LS9 powered ZR. Fact is he's scared of it. I tell him "If you're scared, get a door. Sell it and buy something you aren't scared to drive." Nope. It'll just sit there and do the fiberglass version of rusting... then when he dies, someone else will drive his Vette...
Point is, buy something to USE it for what it is. Or buy it for investment..but never buy it for both and expect it to stay "prestine".

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

this is crazy

there's no way the emotional stress is worth what that guitar is.

if anything you should buy another one in the same finish and just leave it in the box...then you've got one that's minty brand new and another that you can actually use as a musical instrument and a tool for your art.

my friend with the original 59 burst didn't mind that i put some belt scratches on it...why the **** should you stress about that thing?

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

Point is, buy something to USE it for what it is. Or buy it for investment..but never buy it for both and expect it to stay "prestine".

Yeah, really. If I were worried about something as superficial as pick scratches on a guitar, I definitely wouldn't let other people play it. If we're talking about damage that doesn't show up on a decent photo, and you're actually spending money to fix it, the glass case is really the way to go.

At the end of the day it's your guitar, you're money, you're time, etc., but being anal about the condition of something that's actually being used, causes more misery than it's worth. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone with a new car say, "My new car got a scratch on it today! I was livid!" Like they can't enjoy the car now because it's no longer flawless. It's been tainted. Those guys would probably walk away from the altar if someone told them the bride-to-be had gone to third bass with a guy after prom, before you met her. Personally, I'd appreciate it if she could teach me a thing or two on our wedding night. Dig?

 

[108Dragon]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

Yeah, really. I wish I had a dollar for every time I've heard someone with a new car say, "My new car got a scratch on it today! I was livid!" Like they can't enjoy the car now because it's no longer flawless. It's been tainted. Those guys would probably walk away from the altar if someone told them the bride-to-be had gone to third bass with a guy after prom, before you met her. Personally, I'd appreciate it if she could teach me a thing or two on our wedding night. Dig?

I don't know about the used chick thing (hahaha), but some a$$hole backed a trailer hitch through the door on my Camaro with a 3k$ ghost flame paint job. I just taped up the hole and drive it as it is.. My Sabre 540 got fumbled at an open mic... Ibanez doesn't even make 540's anymore. I was just happy I could still play the thing. Both incidents actually liberated me from the worry that it might happen..

 

[dmandude123455]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

Good sir, I have noticed that you have markings on your guitar. Yes it is a beautiful guitar, If It was a woman I'm sure it would be a beautiful woman.

Empty Pockets has a grand point though. Scraths and dents are not bad. I see it as loving the guitar. Yeah you didn't put thouse scraths on there but thoughs markings give the guitar character. All my guitars have their own markings on them, It like their own little battle wounds. My strat which is my main guitar have buckel rash and scarths all over the back and pickguard. Same with my explorer and my rising sun, and if you just let that guitar sit in its case and you'd only play it once and awhile that your not letting it get those stage scars that make guitars so freaking beautiful in the first place!

Look at a Les paul Custom for example, A nice straight out the custom shop, custom is nice, but a beat up, cracked finish, faded cream custom from the 60's is much mo betta! It tells you a story of days of old when that guitar would be played on a stage and people would just stand and stare as its weilder would hold it up and say "This is MY guitar!"

 

[ravendouglas]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

maybe i should point out that this is the prettiest guitar i have ever owned..it took me a while to find one in purple..they dont make them purple any more by the way...so i cant just go out and get another one if this one were to get really f..ed up....and i am not losing sleep over it,i just was horrified to see the scratches ..it's.like .if you loaned your car out and it got returned frigged up...i get the play yer guitar thing...but i just wanted this one to stay pretty...like i said..i can play with out laying the pick on my guitars..it hits the strings instead.

 

[108Dragon]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

maybe i should point out that this is the prettiest guitar i have ever owned..it took me a while to find one in purple..they dont make them purple any more by the way...so i cant just go out and get another one if this one were to get really f..ed up....and i am not losing sleep over it,i just was horrified to see the scratches ..it's.like .if you loaned your car out and it got returned frigged up...i get the play yer guitar thing...but i just wanted this one to stay pretty...like i said..i can play with out laying the pick on my guitars..it hits the strings instead.

You should be greatful the fool didn't fumble it. I've watched helplessly as 2 of my guitars hit stages. It always prompted me to upgrade the guitar with new paint and hardware after repairing and repainting it. Maybe I'll post a pic of my Camaro door later. I got f****d, and nobody even bought me a drink. I got over it...
Only way it's gonna "stay pretty" is leave it in the case.. but that ain't no fun either.

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

maybe i should point out that this is the prettiest guitar i have ever owned..it took me a while to find one in purple..they dont make them purple any more by the way...so i cant just go out and get another one if this one were to get really f..ed up....and i am not losing sleep over it,i just was horrified to see the scratches ..it's.like .if you loaned your car out and it got returned frigged up...i get the play yer guitar thing...but i just wanted this one to stay pretty...like i said..i can play with out laying the pick on my guitars..it hits the strings instead.

OHHH NOOO A FEW SCRATCHES YOU CAN BARELY SEE IT'S NOT PRETTY ANYMORE

i saved up for a year and spent almost $2g's on this thing:

try and tell me it ain't pretty? :smokin:

it had an aftermarket bigsby mounted by an amateur then removed. i assume the same amateur tried to cover the holes left with black sharpie? the finish has completely worn off many parts of the neck leaving a couple patches of smooth, bare mahogany to slide my hand up and down. The finish is just starting the 'checking' process that is so well-defined and awesome-looking on Gibsons from the 60's and 70's.

compared to a $3,899 plus sales tax, brand new, fresh-from-the-box Les Paul Custom it LOOKS like crap

but i stacked it up against every Les Paul in my shop ranging from $800 Studios to $7,999 Custom Shop Signature pieces and it's better

mainly because you can play it like it's a guitar and you don't have to worry about damaging a huge price tag and an "investment"

so stop being a ****ing pussy and play your god damn guitar

 

[rashayritto]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

I don't see why everyone is waging ideological war on this guy's thread. Its just ONE of his guitars that he's nuts about. So what. I like for my guitars to age and look bad ass and broken in, some people don't

 

[Empty Pockets]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

it's for his own mental health

it's a piece of wood with a pretty paint job; not worth going ape**** over

 

[dr. ad]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

omfg...

tell the guy about polishes or leave him alone, FFS...

 

[Jessie's ghost]

Re: help with removing pick scratches from my guitars finish please.

omfg...

tell the guy about polishes or leave him alone, FFS...

Sorry. I know that would be the right thing to do, but this is just way too much fun.