Getting a neck glossed.

Can anyone recommend me a place/shop that can gloss up a neck for me. It's a Fender fretted 4-string neck. I've never done this before and would rather pay for a professional/experienced person to do it. Also, any idea how much someone would usually charge? I don't mind paying a fair price so as long as it's done right. Just looking for a clear gloss on the entire neck and fretboard.

 

Yeah. Ths neck has a satin finish the neck is all maple with a maple fretboard. Tried searching but no luck. Of course I would have to pay for the labor of removing any finish on it, but as I said, I won't mind shelling the dough so as long as the job is done right. I really like the neck and glossing it up would make it *that* much more to my absolute preference.

Also, thanks for the suggestion, but I want a poly gloss neck. Something about glossy necks... I just love them!

 

First time for everything. I thought about shooting Warmoth an email, but I don't know if they would since they're slammed with custom orders. My local luthier is on vacation until January 3rd, so it will be awhile until I can ask. What about guitar restoration places? I've seen some of them restore worn necks that have also lossed their gloss. Anyone have any suggestions?

 

Yes, I'm determined to have a gloss urethane finish on my neck. Again, thanks for the alternatives, but I just want to know who might be able to provide such services...

 

Any buffing wheel you recommend? Was able to talk to my luthier and he said he uses regular wood poly spray on finishes and just buffers them evenly. What he uses can be bought in almost any hardware store for $10 a can and could be used on both unfinished & finished woods of most kinds - so a good buffer suggestion from like Home Depot would be my next starting place. That, and getting junk wood to test this on. Going make this a DIY thing since my luthier said it was easy with a bit of time consumption for taping up the frets and buffing the finish.

 

I was JUST doing research and this IS what I'm going to do after I go to sleep and wake up. Going to try 2 methods on 2 different spare necks:

Neck #1 - Rubbing Compound plus a 6" buffing wheel with terry cloth bonnets (recommended on a guitar forum).

Neck #2 - Using quick-dry spray on gloss polyurethane (three coats should do) and wet-sanding going from 400 > 600 > 800 > 1200 then buffing using method as described on Neck #1 (recommended by my luthier and some random guitar player guy).

I DO want a gloss finish - but I'm also after that rock-hard candy-like coating like on those glossed Fender necks. Unfortunately, I don't have the pro-tools like Fender, nor the uber poly Fender uses, but #2 is the DIY thing that a guitar player was kind enough to show me what the ending result would turn out to be. Was very surprised and impressed he got that candy-shell-shiny-gloss that I am going for and he applied it on top of satin finished necks. Definitely going to practice this one a few times on some spare wood!

 

Thanks for that! Hmm... 1500 then 2000 then dry sand paper. Got it! Haha! So excited I can't sleep. Might stay up the next 6 hrs or so just to wait for the hardware store to open.