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Oil varnish on a blanca?
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Erixon
Posts: 7
Joined: Nov. 28 2015
From: Forest of Dean, UK
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 RE: Oil varnish on a blanca? (in reply to Perrate)
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Hey Perrate, I'd say just go ahead and try FP, it is really worth it. I recently did my first FP too and I'm totally mindblown how awesome it turned out at the end. After I finished I couldn't even stop looking at the guitar, so beautiful gloss and antique touch it has received. And the best thing that I learned is that the finish is not fragile at all (on the contrary to the popular belief)
However, I did it a bit differently, I didn't use oil (on purpose, I wanted to avoid longer curing time and stickiness). I'm playing the guitar daily now for few weeks, still no sticking at all, despite it often gets in contact with my skin and body heat while playing. So it is possible to avoid oil, but rubbing gets a bit trickier. Surface is not 100% glass-smooth, but nevertheless it shines terrific.
Watch some tutorials on YT how the sessions are done, there are dozens of good videos. It may give you some initial ideas and guidelines. You can try it on a piece of wood first to become familiar with the feeling and rubbing technique.
Here is the final product:
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Date Dec. 8 2015 20:41:38
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Erixon
Posts: 7
Joined: Nov. 28 2015
From: Forest of Dean, UK
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 RE: Oil varnish on a blanca? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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Thank you Anders, I really appreciate you liked it.
I thought so, but I wasn't entirely sure. I had a great amount of repair works done on this guitar, sealing cracks, closing one nasty rectangular opening on the side after removing the preamp originally installed, making new fretboard, putting new frets, making new bridge and rather complicated set up adjustments in order to compensate for rather high action on the 12th fret, all in all I did my best and I'm quite proud of the result to be honest since the guitar now sounds much more complete than ever before. Also, made a new ebony nut and saddle.
When the guitar came into my possession it had a dull, sticky and somewhat unprofessionally done fresh FP job on its back, apparently to mask some cracks. After some time dirt has been catching into it and my assumption was that it has been the result of too much oil been used during polishing. Don't know, the surface did not look or feel right. I heard some other luthier saying that drying of shellac may increase to months if too much oil gets trapped between layers of shellac. So I avoided it cause I needed the guitar look and feel dry at the end. But I may have misunderstood. What is you opinion for the cause of sticky shellac?
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