Well done. What grit paper would you now recommend to get rid of the prismatic green and blue? I may want to keep the red and orange and fade to lemon yellow
@@maorienteg I used 100 by hand. You could use 100 to get thru the clear until the color starts to dust up. The color comes off pretty easily, try 220 and be patient? 320 would take a long time. The coat under the color coat is robust but that's what I ended up scratching. Once the color was off I wet sanded by hand starting with 320 and went down to 1000 but the 100 grit had been too rough. Looks like an old guitar tho. Old-ish. I didn't want to go down to bare wood, the maple is super thin. I could have topcoated with 4 or so thinned coats of Crystalac Brite Tone, dry level sanded and buffed that but I ran out of patience. Still could rough it up with 220 now and do that but I have no appetite for it. The Meguiars shined it up quick after wet level sanding.
@@masterspaw421 The vibrato tailpiece is the short Maestro Vibrola. I would suggest the version sold by WD. People complain about the Allparts version, this one is the Advanced Plating version. I replaced the original handle with the polished stainless flat "spoon" handle from Advanced Plating. Is that the part you meant?
@@masterspaw421 Or the String Butler on the headstock? I bought it directly from String Butler on reverb. I don't suggest it for any guitar with less than the Gibson headstock angle, you have to remove far too much material from the back. The other version that uses the tuner bushings to mount it doesn't work with locking tuners, the tuner shafts are too short.
Well done.
What grit paper would you now recommend to get rid of the prismatic green and blue?
I may want to keep the red and orange and fade to lemon yellow
@@maorienteg I used 100 by hand. You could use 100 to get thru the clear until the color starts to dust up. The color comes off pretty easily, try 220 and be patient? 320 would take a long time.
The coat under the color coat is robust but that's what I ended up scratching. Once the color was off I wet sanded by hand starting with 320 and went down to 1000 but the 100 grit had been too rough.
Looks like an old guitar tho. Old-ish.
I didn't want to go down to bare wood, the maple is super thin. I could have topcoated with 4 or so thinned coats of Crystalac Brite Tone, dry level sanded and buffed that but I ran out of patience. Still could rough it up with 220 now and do that but I have no appetite for it. The Meguiars shined it up quick after wet level sanding.
Hello friend, what is the name of the screw cover that aligns the strings? and where do you buy it?
@@masterspaw421 The vibrato tailpiece is the short Maestro Vibrola. I would suggest the version sold by WD. People complain about the Allparts version, this one is the Advanced Plating version. I replaced the original handle with the polished stainless flat "spoon" handle from Advanced Plating. Is that the part you meant?
@@masterspaw421 Or the String Butler on the headstock? I bought it directly from String Butler on reverb. I don't suggest it for any guitar with less than the Gibson headstock angle, you have to remove far too much material from the back.
The other version that uses the tuner bushings to mount it doesn't work with locking tuners, the tuner shafts are too short.