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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 22:50:43 GMT
I am interested to know if there have been successful attempts at touching up a lacquer finish on a vintage polychrome? Lacquer touchups are routine on vintage guitars...lacquer melts in and matches up pretty well...have done some minor touchups myself. Dealing with bare and/or oxidized metal is another thing. I have a polychrome instrument that has a lot of exposed white prime-coat and metal along with say 80% original finish. Thinking a touchup would not be a (too) bad thing... Also wondering if anyone knows the official color names or a spurce of matching lacquer. Below is photo of the item. I dont have it in hand yet. Going to be some nice dust bunnies inside...
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Post by maui_chimes on Mar 19, 2017 15:31:02 GMT
I have seen some real disasters on attempted finish repair of "normal" vintage guitars like Martins and J-45s. I think trying to touch up polychrome paint would be a trainwreck.
There's nothing wrong with worn original paint. To me that's always preferable to a botched "restoration".
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Post by maui_chimes on May 8, 2017 5:58:17 GMT
Just a follow - up for you. I bought that one and returned it. The neck was not fixable in my opinion, at least not in any practical way.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2017 2:23:58 GMT
Yes the neck is bowed but otherwise all there ( well not all the finish). I thought it would be a good project for $250... its in my projec queue...heat press and likely a graphite bar...then possible refin...hopefully will get to it next year. I do it myself to avoid the botch-up.
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Post by Mike lewis on Apr 19, 2018 11:37:48 GMT
No you can not do a touch up , it needs a lot more than that, Leave it as it is . Its not a polychrome , its a W which means Walnut
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