arthursilvia
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I am refinishing my Gold Top Les Paul 12 string. I am going for a transparent Amber color. I will post photos as I go along.
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Have you done this before?
If not STOP NOW...
If yes can you resize the pictures before uploading them.. Many here are on slow connections and they will take an age to load.
Yes I have. I don't know how to resize photos.
A 12-string Goldtop LP? Don't think I've ever seen one of those. What year is it?
Nah. Les Pauls - especially newer ones without any vintage value - are probably the most modified by owner guitars on the market today. Everybody dicks with 'em. Whether it's pups, tone caps, pots, wiring schemes, neck profiles, finish... name it. There just seems to be this tremendous urge to make 'em "better" somehow. I admit I modified one of mine. '81 Custom in black that I stripped the top finish off and changed a bunch of stuff to recreate Mick Ronson's axe. I like it. It's pretty unique. This could go either way but if well done should be just fine.This is bringing tears to my eyes...
Isn't "refinishing" a guitar a crime against humanity???
The lacquer is nitro. The gold pigment/flake is not....
Lacquer thinner didn't touch it. I think it may be poly of some kind. The fact that the top coat didn't stick well is another clue.
No it won't. The flake and the precat carrier will inhibit it. They stop the build from disturbing the flake in the gold. I thought you'd done this before?
When I questioned if the gold coat was nitro or not you said it was. It was obviously not. The gold flakes are Crescent Bronze's #256.
The finish is nitro, or a what Gibson now use which is a nitro precat with stacks of plasticizers in there. The flake is not the problem. It is the carrier for the flake and the plasticizers they now put in their high build lacquers. You said done this before?
If it was nitro the lacquer thinner would have melted it, that is why I suspect it is poly based. I am waiting for a response from Gibson, I have been corresponding with their repair shop.