jazzman22 Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 HELP! I'm working on restoring a tele style guitar for a friend of mine who is a professional musician. She asked to me to refinish her guitar with a red mahogany color stain. I had the stain custom mixed at a local paint shop, sanded the body all the way down to the bare wood, stained it, and was in the process of applying and then sanding/polishing the clear coat (polyurethane) when it looks like the poly started to whiten in one spot. I've seen this happen with varnish, but never poly, so I hit it lightly with some sandpaper and realized it was through to the wood! So I clean sanded that one spot and reapplied the stain, but the spot is now several shades lighter than the rest of the body! I've tried everything I can think of to get it to match and it just won't work. I was hoping to have this guitar ready for her by early september, so this is a bad time for this to happen. Does anyone have ANY suggestions? I'm in a bit of a panic here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chunkielad Posted August 20, 2006 Report Share Posted August 20, 2006 I think I'd just sand the whole thing back and start again or atleast that area of the guitar - if it's on the back, sand the whole back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wawa8223 Posted August 23, 2006 Report Share Posted August 23, 2006 Did you apply a sanding sealer? ...Use a catalyzed poly finish? Take a look at my recent post post on my repair that I did to my Fernandes Ravelle (Guitar Repair - Color and Clearcoat). It tells you what I used and has a few pics. You'd probably do better re-sanding, staining/sealing, then clear-coating. I actually mixed some color stain with the sanding sealer for my repair. It matched up quite nicely. wawa--------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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