Hey all! I'm sure many of you have been through this before. I picked up a couple of Peavey electrics on the cheap some time back now. I figured that I could keep stealing parts off them until I ran out of things to do with them. I've got a geetar in the works but wanted to keep busy while my glue up's drying so I pulled the neck off of one of the Peavey's.
I was thinking about stripping the clear coat off this one and possibly dark staining it. It's just a clear coat (of something or another) over natural Maple now. I tried Naphtha, but it just seems to be knocking it down some and not really stripping the clear coat.
Not sure what they usually hit these guitar necks with out of the factory so not sure if Naphtha will eventually cut through it or not.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
RC
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Maybe other folks have had luck doing that, but not me. I suppose you could take it somewhere and have it dipped. The trick is to have the bare wood complete exposed so that the stain will penetrate.
Exactly, pretty much impossible to get a stain to take unless I get whatever is on here, off. I'm not sure is it's worth the effort or not. The look and finish is pretty nice as is other than the Peavey logo along with the Made in China one on the back of the headstock. A palm sander would take care of that pretty quick though ;)
From what I understand is most of the cheaper guitars have polyurethane. Try a small area with a stripper made for urethate. If that doesn't work try one for lacquer.
Good idea. Something should work.
My vote would be to sand off the logo and made in china, leave the rest.
Good vote. I beat you to it. Just came upstairs from hitting it with a makeshift sanding block and some 60 grit. It came off like a charm. Of course I couldn't just leave it like that. I worked my way down the neck then rubbed in some Minwax Polyshades black just to see what the 1 coat results would be. Interesting look so far.
I brought home some 3/8 hardwood dowel thinking that would be about the right size to plug the un-needed tuner locations. Dang, just a hair too small.
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