Something is brewing -63 Strat

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Aw come on!!! competition yellow or taxi yellow are quite cool colours!!! hahahahaha
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philly wrote:what sort of stripper do you use and how many passes ?
i'm stripping a bass at the moment and I got some water based stripper (environment and all that...)
but I applied some last night....scraped it off this morning and hasn't made a blind bit of difference
if anything it's shinier!!
might as well have used natural yoghurt
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Yummy. See the Fiesta right at the bottom of the heap! It might even be on top of a Sunburst.

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philly wrote:what sort of stripper do you use and how many passes ?
i'm stripping a bass at the moment and I got some water based stripper (environment and all that...)
but I applied some last night....scraped it off this morning and hasn't made a blind bit of difference
if anything it's shinier!!
might as well have used natural yoghurt
If you're dealing with poly even the toxic stuff will have little if any effect.
I think you're right.... just tried some of the auto stuff and no different...have to get the belt sander out
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philly wrote:
calling card wrote:
philly wrote:what sort of stripper do you use and how many passes ?
i'm stripping a bass at the moment and I got some water based stripper (environment and all that...)
but I applied some last night....scraped it off this morning and hasn't made a blind bit of difference
if anything it's shinier!!
might as well have used natural yoghurt
If you're dealing with poly even the toxic stuff will have little if any effect.
I think you're right.... just tried some of the auto stuff and no different...have to get the belt sander out
i used a heat gun on my ones. that worked well
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Heat gun for poly is good. Anything sanding oriented should be avoid unless you're not concerned about changing rounded profiles etc.
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heat gun and scraper. If you're lucky, it'll chip off nice and easy or even in one piece sometimes.
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Bg wrote:heat gun and scraper. If you're lucky, it'll chip off nice and easy or even in one piece sometimes.
ooh... like when you get a beer bottle label off in one go?... lovely!
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GrantB wrote:Yummy. See the Fiesta right at the bottom of the heap! It might even be on top of a Sunburst.

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The Tone God spoke...he said "be gone with it"
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Could have looked like this....


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GrantB wrote:UPPPDATEEE

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Looks great. :thumbup:

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I assume the neck and hardware will be quite worn. Will you put any wear marks etc on the body?
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Look at those brown cases in the background....hmmmm

I dont think so re the Strat - it's pretty clean. I reckon the owner way back just went, "feck it, natural is the new and funky thing...do it Zettwitz!"
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AiRdAd wrote:I assume the neck and hardware will be quite worn. Will you put any wear marks etc on the body?
Near mint

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So I will do "some" relic work...but not a lot.
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