It’s been a while but I finally got some motivation back so I thought I’d better post a status report.
I’d finished the staining and applied 20 coats of MinWax wipe on poly when I dropped the neck on the floor of the garage and chipped and dented the headstock. So sand back the 20 coats of finish and take the headstock back to bare wood and start again. It was all good experience of repairing a damaged finish and although still noticeable it didn’t turn out too bad.
I used MIxWax on this guitar because I had finally run out of Tru-Oil but luckily I found I had some MinWax left over from a previous build so I decided to use it up before it goes off like the TO did. To apply MinWax it is pretty similar to applying TO, so no drama there.
After 20 coats of MW I let the guitar cure for a week or two and then started the procedure of sanding, cutting and polishing in much the same way as I do with TO.
It was soon fairly obvious that I either didn’t sand down the body as thoroughly as I should or the MinWax is not a self-levelling finish, as while not being too bad it does not have the wet-glass finish I was hoping for. No big deal, as being made of pine it will relic up pretty quickly anyway.
I sanded though a few grades of paper up to 2,000 grit and then went to my go-to cutter, Brasso.
The back of the guitar after sanding back with 2,000 grit paper
The back after polishing with Brasso
The top, after 2,000 grit
And after Brasso
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