Mr. Foxen Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Got this sort of from ebay, turned out to be a BCer, to made alternate arrangements involving less fees. At some point someone had done a terrible refin of the top, with lumpiness and bits of wood showing through. So I figured strip it back and start again. When I got to the middle, interestingly it had no through neck showing, must have a top cap of really boring wood. By the time I'd taken it back far enough to lose the horrible gouges their removal of the original finish had left, I find the through neck: [URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1591_zpsa42d07a2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1591_zpsa42d07a2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] More fun to make that not look silly now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myke Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Are you hand sanding this? If so, I do not envy you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted July 30, 2013 Author Share Posted July 30, 2013 Was scraping it back with blades, more control, but this got the palm sander. I'm debating black stain or natural now. Considering natural came up because I can't find my black stain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted July 30, 2013 Author Share Posted July 30, 2013 Worked the middle through to expose all of the through neck, think will make a feature of it, stain it darker to accentuate, but not black like I planned: [URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1590_zps8dd5cb7a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1590_zps8dd5cb7a.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myke Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 That would look very nice being the focus of attention. Quick, possibly silly question.. What were you using the scrape it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted July 31, 2013 Author Share Posted July 31, 2013 Stanley blades. I should get a cabinet scraper set, but I've been doing stuff with them for so long, pretty used to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myke Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 Ah okay I saw someone write about scraping before and I didn't know what it was.. but I get it now. Thank you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stearstree1304 Posted July 31, 2013 Share Posted July 31, 2013 I'm liking this. I have a soft spot for Washburns having started out on a force 4 of the era - it was the same body shape but just a P pickup, bolt on construction and a ply body as I recall. I painted it pink (it was the 80's and I was young and foolish) and it had the look and texture of a sugared almond when I was finished. I sold it on a few years later and the guy who bought it had a terrible time trying to get the pink paint off it! I expect far greater things from this refin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted August 1, 2013 Author Share Posted August 1, 2013 I've ordered red mahogany stain, but the guitar behind it and the red binding is making me consider raspberry stain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted August 3, 2013 Author Share Posted August 3, 2013 Just wiped some dye over it, totally shows up the palm sander marks, so another bunch of hand sanding to do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted August 6, 2013 Author Share Posted August 6, 2013 Scraped back and fine sanded by hand, the stain is still there, but less so, still a bit pink, got a kind of Gunter Hagens thig going on, might leave it, need to look in proper daylight. This is with some white spirit wiped over so it looks like it will oiled: [URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1600_zpsc29f3f27.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1600_zpsc29f3f27.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nibody Posted August 6, 2013 Share Posted August 6, 2013 I need to do something with my XS-4. Had it from new, it's been several colours in all the wrong types of paint. Lost the bridge somewhere too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 Any clue what the wood is like? Nice thing about binding is it divides areas up to work on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted August 7, 2013 Author Share Posted August 7, 2013 [URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1600_zps64ac5463.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1600_zps64ac5463.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Foxen Posted August 21, 2013 Author Share Posted August 21, 2013 Left it laying about for the oil to cure, and considered what pickups to go in. Realised the originals are probably fine, but gonna lose the active bits. Stuck them in, and decide how to wire it: [URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1650_zpsc6c54ec8.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1650_zpsc6c54ec8.jpg[/IMG][/URL] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted August 21, 2013 Share Posted August 21, 2013 This is looking really smart. These kind of refurbish are a lot of work but often produce very nice results. Andy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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