refinish
Thousands of Guitar Bodies and Necks for Sale …Cheap!
GuitarFetish, popular cut-rate guitar parts purveyor, is having a unique sale right now. Somehow they stumbled into a warehouse in China of abandoned guitar parts. No hardware is left, but there are thousands of necks and bodies in various states of finish and condition. A lot of the parts are in rough condition, but for the price [...]
Tru-Oil as a Guitar Finish
Tru-Oil is the brand name for a wipe on varnish made by Birchwood Casey. Originally developed as a gunstock finish, it’s relative ease of application, decent durability, and grain enhancing properties, have won it a lot of favor among guitar finishers. There also seems to be a lot of confusion about it too. I think [...]
The Marauder Project:Part 4
Part1 Part2 Part3 So, in the last episode we were left with an uneven, lemon colored lacquer finish. I mentioned that I came up with a ‘great’ way to fix this, ‘great’ being a relative term here. I bought an air compressor and a spraygun. I actually have a lot of experience mixing and spraying [...]
The Marauder Project: Part 2-The Plan
Incase you missed it – part 1 My original plan for refinishing the Marauder was to bring it back to something similar to it’s original color – A deep wine colored stain. But as I looked over images of Marauders with different finishes, most of them being stained rather then painted, something just didn’t seem [...]