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Hi guys,
I just finished up my second refin. This one was a Full restore. Backstory is, an old bandmate say 93-96 had this nice Alvarez burst, with a USA hardshell and everything. Never seen these things before but it was nice. 24 years later we re connected. I asked him what ever happened to that guitar. He said he messed it up by totally spray painting it with Treamclad Blueflake and Gloss years ago. I said, hand it over.
It took forever to strip but as i kept at it, Underneath was awesome. Its funny how today this body would be $$$$ and if it were gibson....well...
Anyway. I stripped it, did the same treatment to is as my Les Paul. Analine dye, Clear, Shades, Topcoat, wetland, Pro Buff. I call it the Historic treatment.
For the record i wanted to keep it like the Amber more flame pics, but he wanted it to be darker. It's his guitar so I did what he said. I also blocked the bridge out. Its a Hardtail now. He is very happy.
Plays very nice.
Thoughts...
At the end is a pic of the First burst i did.
And heres how it started..
I just finished up my second refin. This one was a Full restore. Backstory is, an old bandmate say 93-96 had this nice Alvarez burst, with a USA hardshell and everything. Never seen these things before but it was nice. 24 years later we re connected. I asked him what ever happened to that guitar. He said he messed it up by totally spray painting it with Treamclad Blueflake and Gloss years ago. I said, hand it over.
It took forever to strip but as i kept at it, Underneath was awesome. Its funny how today this body would be $$$$ and if it were gibson....well...
Anyway. I stripped it, did the same treatment to is as my Les Paul. Analine dye, Clear, Shades, Topcoat, wetland, Pro Buff. I call it the Historic treatment.
For the record i wanted to keep it like the Amber more flame pics, but he wanted it to be darker. It's his guitar so I did what he said. I also blocked the bridge out. Its a Hardtail now. He is very happy.
Plays very nice.
Thoughts...
At the end is a pic of the First burst i did.
And heres how it started..