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A quick refinishing question, what's under the top layer of paint on a normal mass produced guitar?

I've got a Squire Affinity Tele which I was thinking of stripping and refinishing. I've scraped a patch of the colour paint off under the scratchplate and under that is what looks like a thick transparent layer, not unlike plastic when scratched with a screwdriver.

Any ideas what this might be and how to get it off?

I'm thinking of just a natural finish depending on the grain of the body.

 @Jimothey made one over on BC. Knowing his level of lunacy and skill he probably designed it from scratch, mined and refined his own materials and then built something worthy of the best of the best boutique effects maker.

Oi Oi saveloy! Welcome to GC. It'll pick up soon, honest.

On 20/02/2020 at 17:23, Teebs said:

Fairly self-explanatory, I'd have thought?!?!?!

Twerp.

In that case, meet my bitsa Superstrat.

Series 10 neck given to me by a friend, body from the classifieds in the back of Guitarist, before you could get such things from the interwebz. Gotoh tuners and licensed Floyd Rose. IIRC the pickups are Kent Armstrong, very probably from WD Music or David Duke when his hardware catalogue was four sides of photocopied A4.

The front routed body was cut through to the back and the front cavities had a wooden lid fitted. All the cutting for the trem and humbuckers was done on a milling machine.

It's a Vauxhall green rattle can finish, but it may be Ford!

Just a standard Squier from me. I got it to go mad with modifying it but I've changed my mind so either nothing, or a refin to natural, depending on what the body wood looks like under the paint.

Do strat shaped guitars count?

I'd start the pedal board one, but it's not for geetars so probably doesn't count

Yeah but, no but, yeah.

I know @Kiwi and @leftybassman392 from next door. Do you consider yourselves bassists first, in which case having a load of basses is not unsurprising. 

I'm asking whether folks who see themselves as primarily guitarists have a bass lurking as many bassists, in my perception of BC, have the odd guitar.

I'm also being nice and getting the content going

Pretty much. 

It's probably in the synaptic signals between the neurons your brain.

Or, put another way, it's all down to personal perception.

I think you'll find, if you read some of the madder posts in the dark corners of instrument forums, that tone is all in the wood. Or the pickups. Or the strings. Or the paint.

Or in your head.

Delete as applicable.

3 minutes ago, Teebs said:

I don't have any plectrums

I'll send you some, what's your address?

2 minutes ago, Teebs said:

I have no stain on my character!

Just on your only pair of pants. (That's y-fronts for any Amuricans, not trousers. Learn how to identify clothing, bloody colonists...)

We have a red and black rug in a sort of paisley pattern in our rehearsal room. Whenever I drop a pick it's easier to get a new one out than find it.

That's my BF Supertwin and GK Fusion in the background.

Now now YT. Let's not get carried away again, you know what the judge had to say about that last time.

21 minutes ago, Teebs said:

Aah! Oscar Wilde has joined us!

If I had an nth of his wit and way with words I'd be happy.

Hang it on the wall and call it art?

Knob off back to BC where you belong.

Or buy a guitar 

Damn, the Raspberry Smiley isn't on here 

On 05/11/2019 at 17:09, ezbass said:

Decided I wanted something more traditional, with a scratchplate, etc. So I replaced the body on my Tele today. Well pleased.

 

Is that the original body? Why did you decide to change it in the first instance?

Just out of curiosity really. As most of the membership on here seem to be from next door, I imagine it's fairly safe to say that a lot of bassists have a guitar. I was wondering whether the same was true of guitarists, or folks who classify themselves as guitar players.

This is going to be my next mod project. Originally I was going to Super-Tele it, Floyd and double humbuckers but then I thought I already have a Super-Strat so it's going to remain a hardtail. What I am going to do is strip it and try and contour the Fender comfort contours into it, use a neckplate-less method on the neck and shape the body there a bit before refinishing in Tru-oil. I may turn it into firewood of course. I may put some hotter pickups in, but to be honest the Squire standard ones sound OK to me.

This is my Partscaster. A Series10 neck from a friend and a normal front routed strat copy body from the small ads in the back of Guitarist, long before the internetz .

The bridge and neck pickup cavities, the bridge cavity and control cavity out through the back were done on a mill, I didn't, and still don't own a router! The wiring slots and control cavity were covered with a wooden lid. Filled and rubbed down and finished in a Ford metallic green rattle can, it could be a Vauxhall colour, I can't remember now!

The bridge and tuners are Gotoh and the pickups are from memory Kent Armstrong.

Moin y'all