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guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:24 pm
by honyock
$40 plus tax and shipping seemed like an decent price to pay.
She wants a pink guitar and the H-B Mustang was too heavy for her so I didn't want to bother refinishing it.
Hoping this is lighter, but still halfway decent starting point.
Thinking we will just hit the hardware store and just let her pick the color and I can teach her how to do some basic stuff and start lessons with her using the Fender Play service I paid for and haven't been using near enough.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:55 pm
by redman
She will love it and picking out the color and working on it with your daughter would be a bargain at any price. My daughter came and visited for a couple of hours this morning and made my week. Anyway, enjoy your time with her as long as you can because they are grown and gone before you know it.
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 3:53 pm
by sabasgr68
honyock wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:24 pm
$40 plus tax and shipping seemed like an decent price to pay.
She wants a pink guitar and the H-B Mustang was too heavy for her so I didn't want to bother refinishing it.
Hoping this is lighter, but still halfway decent starting point.
Thinking we will just hit the hardware store and just let her pick the color and I can teach her how to do some basic stuff and start lessons with her using the Fender Play service I paid for and haven't been using near enough.
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Enjoy your father-daughter moment(s). Priceless treasures in life.
Is she lefty too, by looking at the pic?
I hope you both enjoy it!
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 5:10 pm
by honyock
sabasgr68 wrote:honyock wrote: ↑Fri Mar 11, 2022 1:24 pm
$40 plus tax and shipping seemed like an decent price to pay.
She wants a pink guitar and the H-B Mustang was too heavy for her so I didn't want to bother refinishing it.
Hoping this is lighter, but still halfway decent starting point.
Thinking we will just hit the hardware store and just let her pick the color and I can teach her how to do some basic stuff and start lessons with her using the Fender Play service I paid for and haven't been using near enough.
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Enjoy your father-daughter moment(s). Priceless treasures in life.
Is she lefty too, by looking at the pic?
I hope you both enjoy it!
She is super left handed.
3 of 4 grandparents are lefties, though my mom is semi-ambidextrous because she broke her left arm pretty seriously in high-school and had to relearn stuff right handed.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2022 11:28 pm
by tlarson58
1 in 10 people is left handed.
I don't know if that's true but it's what I heard and I'm too lazy to fact check.
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:57 am
by tobijohn
I wonder whatever happened to Daisy Rock? They had several pink models but I rarely see any used ones around. I bought a glittery pink double cutaway for a refinish project but decided I didn't want to open that stripping and refinishing can of worms and it became one of the rare guitars that i actually sold.
There were also those pink 24 3/4 scale SX Gypsy Rose Strats a while back. I've seen them pop up occasionally too:
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2022 7:43 pm
by honyock
Oddly, this one has one pretty weird issue, Octave fret markers are misplaced at the 11th fret. I bought her a pink tree of life fretboard sticker set so I am just going to use that to cover the oopsy up, or we will drill out the 11th fret ones and I can practice my filling skills with a paste of CA glue and sawdust. At least it is an older one so the fretboard looks to be rosewood.
Bridge is a little crooked so the low E can't intonate, but we are repainting so drilling out and plugging with hardwood dowel will be easy. Will install the nice heavy duty First Act bridge I have had in my parts bin for like 10 years since it is better for palm muting.
At the end of the day she loves it (though she already has eyes on my Seafoam Green Schecter Sun Valley Shredder).
She played with it all on her own yesterday after school. It is so light that she can actually hold it and she wants to play with me (she was trying to figure out what my 4 year old could play along to have a family band...)
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:01 pm
by honyock
Making it a hot pink/rat rod look.
I was not happy with the pink as I was spraying it, but after sanding back to the primer it gives a quasi double bound look.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2022 7:03 pm
by honyock
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 8:19 am
by Rollin Hand
Is that a fluorescent pink? Asking because I may be doing a fluorescent green project soon....
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:34 am
by honyock
Rollin Hand wrote:Is that a fluorescent pink? Asking because I may be doing a fluorescent green project soon....
Yeah. It didn't turn out as flourescent as I had hoped. Not sure if I needed a different primer or maybe I put too many coats and the pink on top of pink isn't bright enough.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:14 pm
by Rollin Hand
Apparently more coats = more dark.
Did you use a white underneath?
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 12:36 pm
by peskypesky
honyock wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:34 am
Rollin Hand wrote:Is that a fluorescent pink? Asking because I may be doing a fluorescent green project soon....
Yeah. It didn't turn out as flourescent as I had hoped. Not sure if I needed a different primer or maybe I put too many coats and the pink on top of pink isn't bright enough.
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maybe put pink polkadots on top like this
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:16 pm
by Tiga
This looks like an awesome project an kudos to you for doing this with your daughter. She will remember this forever.
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 2:18 pm
by Tiga
tobijohn wrote: ↑Wed Mar 16, 2022 12:57 am
I wonder whatever happened to Daisy Rock? They had several pink models but I rarely see any used ones around. I bought a glittery pink double cutaway for a refinish project but decided I didn't want to open that stripping and refinishing can of worms and it became one of the rare guitars that i actually sold.
There were also those pink 24 3/4 scale SX Gypsy Rose Strats a while back. I've seen them pop up occasionally too:
I have one of the tequila sunrise Gypsy Rose models. Very nice little guitar, been slowly modding mine. I got a kick out of Fender putting out the same finish recently.
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:39 pm
by honyock
Rollin Hand wrote:Apparently more coats = more dark.
Did you use a white underneath?
Yes, I tested on a piece of scrap wood, but I think painting it in sunlight with my sunglasses on made it a little too easy to go heavy handed. Live and learn.
I did some wet sanding today and it got a little lighter as the paint got thinner, so that must be the case.
It looks good enough, now I have to clear it and polish because she wants it shiny.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:41 pm
by honyock
peskypesky wrote:honyock wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:34 am
Rollin Hand wrote:Is that a fluorescent pink? Asking because I may be doing a fluorescent green project soon....
Yeah. It didn't turn out as flourescent as I had hoped. Not sure if I needed a different primer or maybe I put too many coats and the pink on top of pink isn't bright enough.
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maybe put pink polkadot on top like this
That is cool
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 9:05 am
by Rollin Hand
honyock wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:39 pm
Rollin Hand wrote:Apparently more coats = more dark.
Did you use a white underneath?
Yes, I tested on a piece of scrap wood, but I think painting it in sunlight with my sunglasses on made it a little too easy to go heavy handed. Live and learn.
I did some wet sanding today and it got a little lighter as the paint got thinner, so that must be the case.
It looks good enough, now I have to clear it and polish because she wants it shiny.
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Thanks. What paint did you use? I was going to go with the Rustoleum fluorescent, if I ever get around to it.
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:59 am
by honyock
Rollin Hand wrote:honyock wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:39 pm
Rollin Hand wrote:Apparently more coats = more dark.
Did you use a white underneath?
Yes, I tested on a piece of scrap wood, but I think painting it in sunlight with my sunglasses on made it a little too easy to go heavy handed. Live and learn.
I did some wet sanding today and it got a little lighter as the paint got thinner, so that must be the case.
It looks good enough, now I have to clear it and polish because she wants it shiny.
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Thanks. What paint did you use? I was going to go with the Rustoleum fluorescent, if I ever get around to it.
Yeah thats whatbit was. I got it from Home Depot.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:12 pm
by tobijohn
honyock wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:59 am
Rollin Hand wrote:honyock wrote: ↑Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:39 pm
Thanks. What paint did you use? I was going to go with the Rustoleum fluorescent, if I ever get around to it.
Yeah thats whatbit was. I got it from Home Depot.
I've read that Rustoleum enamel can take literally monhs to dry hard and sometimes it never does...
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 3:54 pm
by Rollin Hand
tobijohn wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:12 pm
honyock wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:59 am
Rollin Hand wrote:Yeah thats whatbit was. I got it from Home Depot.
I've read that Rustoleum enamel can take literally monhs to dry hard and sometimes it never does...
Given the usual glacial pace of my projects, that shouldn't be an issue.
Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 5:50 pm
by honyock
tobijohn wrote:honyock wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:59 am
Rollin Hand wrote:Yeah thats whatbit was. I got it from Home Depot.
I've read that Rustoleum enamel can take literally monhs to dry hard and sometimes it never does...
It's okay for this project.
If I were planning more long term I would just get some auto spraypaint from Auto Zone. Just didn't want to spend the money for a cheapie like this.
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Re: guitar to refinish for my daughter
Posted: Mon Aug 08, 2022 6:00 pm
by tobijohn
honyock wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 5:50 pm
tobijohn wrote:honyock wrote: ↑Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:59 am
I've read that Rustoleum enamel can take literally monhs to dry hard and sometimes it never does...
It's okay for this project.
If I were planning more long term I would just get some auto spraypaint from Auto Zone. Just didn't want to spend the money for a cheapie like this.
Yes, I've got a couple kits I'm going to use Duplicolor on. Acrylic laquer is a little more amatuer freindly and less expensive than nitrocellulose lacquer...
