Helpful - thanks! Are you going to do a follow up - finessing the sanding, trying quality lacquer etc? I have read that Eastman Guitars have a hand applied 'violin lacquer' process they do for their /v guitars - quite intriguing.
I have a 1974 Harmony H906. It has lacquer as the finish. The only thing I was 60 grit sandpaper. I sanded by hand. I removed all the color off the front and back. But it still wasn't down to bare wood. How would I get it to bare wood?
Yeah it can be really hard to sand by hand I wouldn't recommend it 😅 I'm not super familiar with that bass but I think it has a plywood body so you could try to use paint stripper and see if it helps but be careful and don't over do it. But if you are going to repaint the body with a solid colour you don't need to remove all of it you just need to sand the finish mate and fin so the new paint has something to grab on to but if you need to get down to wood I would say best to use a random orbital sander . Hope this helps let me know and good luck don't give up👍
The guitar here is obviously a cheap epiphone Bolt on neck finished in Polyurethane, not Nitrocellulose lacquer. It's a helpful video as far as showing how to remove poly, but misleading. Poly is not Lacquer.
No point in removing poly, as you can paint over it after giving it a bit of a sand, and have a great finish. If you want to get to bare wood, you'd be better off just getting another body. Trying to get that stripped body back to a paint or laquer ready state would be a nightmare.
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Having done a paint over poly over paint removal before usinf sanders and chemicals, this honestly looks SO much easier.
Do not use "lacquer" generically when referring to polymer or polyurethane because they aren't the same... Words actually mean things
Helpful - thanks! Are you going to do a follow up - finessing the sanding, trying quality lacquer etc? I have read that Eastman Guitars have a hand applied 'violin lacquer' process they do for their /v guitars - quite intriguing.
I haven't decided what to do yet but that sounds interesting I'll have to look into it 👍
Why does the title say removing polyurethane? He said lacquer 🤔
With a knife?!? This was painful to watch but well done
I have a 1974 Harmony H906. It has lacquer as the finish. The only thing I was 60 grit sandpaper. I sanded by hand. I removed all the color off the front and back. But it still wasn't down to bare wood. How would I get it to bare wood?
Yeah it can be really hard to sand by hand I wouldn't recommend it 😅 I'm not super familiar with that bass but I think it has a plywood body so you could try to use paint stripper and see if it helps but be careful and don't over do it. But if you are going to repaint the body with a solid colour you don't need to remove all of it you just need to sand the finish mate and fin so the new paint has something to grab on to but if you need to get down to wood I would say best to use a random orbital sander . Hope this helps let me know and good luck don't give up👍
The guitar here is obviously a cheap epiphone Bolt on neck finished in Polyurethane, not Nitrocellulose lacquer. It's a helpful video as far as showing how to remove poly, but misleading. Poly is not Lacquer.
you know you're right so let's change the title
@@zurowetz It's a good demonstration on how to remove that stuff though.
@@Rotary_Phone thanks mate 😁
You're making this very hard on yourself. Keep the finish hot, use a painter's spatula, not a knife.
If the lacquer is shit, or you just want to stop it being shiny in an annoying way! Lol
scotch brite?😆
No point in removing poly, as you can paint over it after giving it a bit of a sand, and have a great finish. If you want to get to bare wood, you'd be better off just getting another body. Trying to get that stripped body back to a paint or laquer ready state would be a nightmare.
Nop