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1967 Guild Starfire restore
drbassman:
Yes he will! This is the toughest type of woodworking in my estimation. Repairing sand throughs like this is a real challenge. If it were me, I would have been tempted to take the easy way out and fill as best as possible and paint it a solid color. I give Mike a lot of credit for tackling this one.
shadowcastaz:
Back,not done fixin,
top with stain and grain filler. gonna sand tonight I hope
Im gonna have to decide on opaque green or a natural reddish finish ,that red residue is a PIA!
Barklessdog:
Wow, that's looking really good!
You are a brave soul on this one.
drbassman:
Looking good! I'm stripping my Guild now and tried chemicals on a section and the black residue bled into the maple a little, so I'm doing the rest with sand paper. Chemicals are great, but they can create more problems than they solve!
bostonguitarrepair:
--- Quote from: shadowcastaz on May 01, 2008, 08:32:00 AM ---Back,not done fixin,
top with stain and grain filler. gonna sand tonight I hope
Im gonna have to decide on opaque green or a natural reddish finish ,that red residue is a PIA!
--- End quote ---
You need to get all that grain filler off the SURFACE of the wood - its a lot of hand sanding - I used a small rubber teardrop cross section sanding form I got at Rockler and it worked well. I think it will look very good once you're done sanding off the excess filler. This looks almost exactly like what I went through with the Starfire I redid natural - see the archives or my website for pics of that process.
You will not get the red out of the end grain on the neck nor the sides - been there and tried that - as popeye would say "Imposski-bill!!!".
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