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Location: New Hampsha | Is there a good method for repairing or restoring a checked top surface on one of the electric storm models? I'm looking at another potential member of the herd. The back is fine, but the top is rather heavily checked and before I leap I'd like to know if the top can be brought back to match the back and sides. Hmmmm? |
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Location: Scotland | generally checking can't be fixed, so the top would need to be stripped back & refinished, which is not a cheap job if you can't do it yourself. |
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Location: In the Hearts of Young and Old | I have been thinking about getting with Customer Service and seeing about running a few of the Elves through a little repair refresher course. Thanks for reminding me!
Kris
PS - Paul, watch your stocking this year! |
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Location: New Hampsha | What the heck, it's only money...
Is the checking displacment of the clear finish, or displacement of the base wood, or something else? If it's the clear finish, the repair shouldn't be breathtaking, just stripping the clear, not going through the color, and reapplying the clear. Easy, right? (see how I talk myself into these projects?) If it's the wood, now we're talking difficult.... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | It's not quite that easy, you can strip the top but that usually is done by sanding the finish off. The bodies are ply so there's a chance to sand through the top layer of veneer (not a good thing) Unless it realllllly bothers you I'd suggest leaving it.
Still want to fix it? call service and get their take on it. |
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Location: Scotland | The most common cause of finish checking is thermal shock from sudden & extreme changes in temperature. It affects the laquer only and not the actual structure of the instrument. I'd aggree with Bill, leave it be, it adds charater.
It's pretty much impossible to strip a clear coat without going down to bare wood, so you wouldn't be able to keep the original colour intact. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Don't touch it, look at how vintage sports cars are valued for the original finishes no matter how faded. Refinishing makes it an altered instrument something akin to a castrated bull, can look but can't cause any desire, it is embarrasing to see a steer's ass kicked by a cow in heat looking for a bull, and they don't care how scruffy and CHECKED the real bull is as long as he can deliver the original promise of nature. |
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Repairing Checks
