Amateur Acoustic Guitar Repair

hyperfish

Colour spray done. I think the template worked well enough.
I gave the body a light buffing to get rid of the over spray and help with blending the inner edge.
Here's the back.


Working on the top.


Filled the missing colour on the side of the repairs.


Removed the electrical tape and cleaned of the sticky residue with Ronson fluid. A little bit of scraping was needed on the binding.
This is where I'm at.


The binding repair is a good as I can get. Note the offending patch near the bridge that I'm hoping the touch up pens will fix. I can't do any more with the finish until that's dealt with.


Drop filled the chips on the headstock using a toothpick.

hyperfish

Cleaned the neck and put the tuners back on.
Removed all the masking that was in place for the spraying then re did it for the fret cleaning.


Buffed the frets with the Dremel and jewellers rouge.


The frets are not too bad on this one, here is one half done.


Cleaned and lubed the tuners before refitting.


Oiled the fretboard and wiped the gunk off.


Lightly buffed and wiped down the bit of spraying I did on the sides.


It's now ready for touching up and the clear coats.

reevesy

I imagine you're starting to see a bit of light at the end of the tunnel now

...hope he appreciates the work gone into it

hyperfish

Yep, almost there. Two more weekends and it should be compete. I want rid of this now, it's overstayed it's welcome.

reevesy

looks like a nice colour finish....

out of curiosity when you say you sprayed it what did you use ?

hyperfish

Halfords auto paint (taking the cue from the likes of Fender who used car paint back in the day), I will finish with their clear lacquer later.
I would have preferred to use semi transparent nitrocellulose paint but that would been an expensive and long job.

reevesy

thought that was the case ..

looks good though....plenty of lacquer needed I imagine

reckon you want to come round mine and sort the dent some 'see you next Tuesday' put in my passenger side car door put in with a bike pedal

Christian 71

Amazing job, your mate doesn't realise how lucky he is. Love to see his face when you give him it back

hyperfish

The touch up pens did a decent job. I coloured in the missing bit a few times and then buffed lightly with Meguiars on a cloth. If should be lost under the clear coats and and the eyes will also be distracted by the strings once they are fitted.

The pens.


Before, not a great pic.


After.

hyperfish

Now the clear coats of lacquer.

Masked off the neck and fretboard again, before spraying in the garage.


Spraying is not my forte. Sprayed a bit too much at once this time.


Confirmed by this run when I hung the guitar to dry.


Improvised for some horizontal drying. When its dry I'll hang it for a week then see what's what.