A Question, If You Please

[RandallFlagg]

OK....did a quick search and didn't get much help...so I'm asking the experts now.

My guitarist and I are going to work on a "at home" guitar. He has recently purchased a Mighty Mite neck (maple with rosewood board). Here's the problem (and guys, be gentle with me....it's my first time! )

What is the best way to lacquer the maple? I mean, is it several coats of brush or spray (can, I might add)?? He is looking for a fairly "shiny", for lack of a better word, look to the neck....

Thanks in advance guys!!


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[wilser]

I've gotten decent results using hardware store (deft) nitro lacquer aerosols. I think your best shot is to use re-ranch products and instructions. Do a google search.

 

[Rodent]

I'll second the re-ranch products as excellent. be sure to really study up on the steps to take, follow them to a T (including the wait time before buffing out) ... and you'll have a great finish job on that neck


all the best,

R

 

[erikbojerik]

+1 on what these guys have said.

FWIW I'm getting ready to re-read "The Stand" after about 10 years.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Thanks Guys!

I didn't even know that the site existed! What a wealth of information!

Again, Thanks!!


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[SDB Guitars]

+1 for Re-Ranch stuff...

I've used Deft lacquer before, but it seems that it's too brittle in the long run... it tends to "craze" or get spider-web-like cracks in it when the wood moves due to temp or humidity. Used it on my first acoustic, and didn't even put it on heavy... but it cracked all over the place after about 6 months. Same thing on a Thinline Tele I made back in the day...

 

[RandallFlagg]

Thanks so much guys! This will undoubtedly save a lot of time (not to mention expense and trouble) of using inferior products!


+1 to Talkbass!


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[wilser]

+1 for Re-Ranch stuff...

I've used Deft lacquer before, but it seems that it's too brittle in the long run... it tends to "craze" or get spider-web-like cracks in it when the wood moves due to temp or humidity. Used it on my first acoustic, and didn't even put it on heavy... but it cracked all over the place after about 6 months. Same thing on a Thinline Tele I made back in the day...

I still own and regularly play a 5 string I finished in the winter (Jan) of 2005. It was a bolt on with a bubinga top on a white ash body and a birdseye maple neck and fingerboard. It was all finished with deft and it still looks very good. No cracks or even grain transposition.

 

[gfried84]

I use deft frequently and have never experienced cracking. Usually this happens from extreme changes in temperature.

 

[flakeh]

+130498 to the re-ranch stuff, High quality.

I've used deft before and i like it.

To the OP

Do you prefer the dark man, or Randall Flagg

The stand is a great book, BTW

 

[John Wentzien]

Nitro!

 

[T2W]

sorry, what the hell is Nitro exactly?

 

[erikbojerik]

sorry, what the hell is Nitro exactly?

It is nitrocellulose lacquer. Also known as lacquer.

Different from nitroglycerine (of explosion and heart medication fame) and nitromethane (of drag racing fame).

 

[Musiclogic]

Nitrocellulose Lacquer= the softest of the common lacquers used today. But this is also associated with vintage instruments, thus there are people who absolutely have to have it.

The other common lacquers are Acrylic, and Waterborne, both being more durable than Nitro, and have come to rival Nitro in Clarity, and luster.

Minwax makes a nice acrylic spray can lacquer, which finishes nicely, also, Behlens, and Parks make good spray can lacquers.