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Polishing Ibanez Les Paul


PasHke 
April 8, 2016



Well,
sometimes I don't have time to finish guitar from beginning and I decide it to give this guitar body to friend to paint it to tobacco burst and put few coats of lacquer. At the end he had done great job with painting skills, but failed with lacquer finish
He done the job with paint brush and left me with over 3 mm thick lacquer, and on some parts even thicker.
Decided to fix that mistake i needed to sand down really thick coat.
To sand much as you can and to be sure that you will not destroy bindings and curves start with 200 graduation sandpaper. You can do it with cork block so your fingers wont left unevenness. And of course, if you have rotary sanding device, i hate you

The problem:







When sanding job is done:







I'm using Polishing 3M paste for car lacquer polishing.







Polish with sponge until you get shiny surface. After that to achieve hi gloss use wool. If you don't have polishing machine and if you end up like me with drill with extension, try to be gently, don't go on high speed. High speed can burn and melt lacquer.

When I had done everything with polishing, hardware assembly comes next.










Few days later on a stage I met friend from beginning of the story. He was smiling and as old fox said to me "Ha! Go grab a beer and lets start playing, i knew that you will fix everything, i did that for you to practice and learn"
Disclaimer, I have learned that everything that you want to make, learn and make it by yourself, don't depend on anyone else
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