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1967 Guild Starfire restore
shadowcastaz:
The edges were sanded through by previous restorer and filled with red paint. I cut along edge with xacto and carved to score mark.
grain match ,I hope, Mahog veneer and glue
i carved out a sand through by an F hole and decided to patch the whole strip
tomw i remove tape and see what happens......
Barklessdog:
Ouch, that is a can of worms you are getting into.
What are your plans for it ?
drbassman:
Very creative patching there. Are you still thinking trans green for the finish?
shadowcastaz:
Im planning to do this
although the pic is maple,mine is mahog.
It looked like this
I am going to test some pieces with light grain filler ,then yellow dye. If I like what I see In going to layer very thinned green dye and see what happens. I got all the parts . This is the hard part. If all else fails I can put a shotgun shell on the FB and paint it orange/blue burst. ::)
I did remove the tape this AM and Im pleased to say that the seams and free hand cutting went well,much to my surprise. I guess all those years of cutting meat,fish and vegies has given me an accurate hand.M
ramone57:
it looks better already! what happened to the previous finish?
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