Simon B's ES-3 build

[Dedman]

oh man , I really feel for you

[Simon Barden]

Well an hour with the solvent and gloves and vapour mask sitting in the sun and getting rather warm has certainly cleared most of the lacquer off the top leaving just the tinted clear on the body with about 15mm of dark round the edge, which I could probably leave alone. The back had a lot smaller central yellow area - which I would have liked to have redone as well, but now I can do it. But I think I need more sanding work on the dark bits to reduce its thickness otherwise it will take for ever trying to do it all with thinners. If you use too much, it just makes a sticky mess that's hard to remove, so you need just a little bit of it at a time.

So once the remaining thinner vapours have evaporated, I'll go back to some sanding before the thinners. I'll just sand the sides as they only had the tobacco lacquer and there's no 'burst on those.

[Drummerdude]

Good news Simon I'm glad to see things starting to work out.. I knew you were going to get this problem fixed.. and still end up looking great.

[Kick]

Wow Simon, that is a sad setback. But I know that you will find a solution to finish this beautiful guitar.

[andrewdosborne]

Simply devastating Simon I feel your pain. Sounds like the solvent may do the trick.


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[dave.king1]

That's sad Simon I too feel your pain, sometimes these things fight back like you wouldn't believe.

My first Tele, the PBH-4 and now the Tuff Dog have fought like hell against getting the finish I wanted on the body, only The Count STA-1 was compliant with my wishes.

What doesn't kill us makes us stronger and I'm sure you'll find a way to see this through.

We all have virtual ears for you to bitch to and virtual shoulders to cry on so keep on keeping on and you'll get there in the end

[billb]

ahhhhh bugger
But what everyone else has said - you'll end up beating it into submission and it will look brilliant when you do!

[Andy40]

Cry worthy Simon. I've been there too

[phrozin]

good you sort of got it i would of used hair dryer and a blade it would have only taken the clear off as the clear and stain are not comparable and don't bind together i use that method most of the time it will peal off like a banana peal, glad you sort of got but i wouldn't recommend that method as has the potential to make a hell of a mess with out repair what you had happen is called shrink back i could sit down and explain how and why it happens but it would take me an hour as my typing speed is 2 words every 10 min lol

[stan]

glad you are moving forward with this, hopefully a good save on the way