Its looks really bad :) The worst thing is that after that ,,restoration,, people asking on reverb 2000 Dollars. The price of this guitar is now MAX 700 dollars.
So I just watched the video, and as many have said, I really do think you did a great job on this. A lot of people don't really know how difficult it is to spray, sand, polish and finish a nitrocellulose finish on a guitar, especially when you're learning the ups and downs yourself. I did it the same way, learned with a few pointers from some RUclipsrs and a whole to of mistakes, and with no power tools, except a nice Dewalt cordless drill I treated myself to a couple years ago. I'm in the middle of restoring a 1981 Kramer Voyager that had very serious wood damage to the body. this will be finished in polyurethane as it was originally, which is a new learning curve for me. Don't take this wrong, or in any way disrespectful, because it's not. I truthfully enjoyed watching you work here, and I do like your finished result. However I think I might have filled in that swimming pool rout with a good solid piece of ash, as close to the grain as possible, and rerouted the pickup cavities back to their original state, maybe even the neck pocket as you mentioned towards the beginning. I also would've used grain filler to give that finish a glass like look, but that's really just preference, I also really dig the visible grain like you've done here. My only reason would be that it is a vintage Strat, albeit a late 70's Stratocaster, but still a vintage Strat. Nice work my friend, I have a new channel I will be enjoying!!
If you think about it. that gap is not as bad as it looks. After all look how thick of a finish you removed. Add that same thickness to the neck and there is significant amount of that space that was filled. So maybe those shims were actually effective before it was all stripped. Over all great job on the rework and the effort you put in. As for your soldering. I see we use the same iron. I did a TON of electronics work in the late 80's into the 90's at places like Harris RF who build military radios, ENI electronics navigation industries as well as other companies. Anyways I have a "how to" video up that may help you with soldering called "teaching Bardwell to Solder" in response to the perpetuation of bad information about soldering electronics where everyone's solution is to "Crank up the heat" which for people new to soldering leads to the total destruction of a lot of gear specially in the RC flight sector.
I've watched that soldering video! Like everything else, my issue falls into not doing it enough, such that I am re-learning the technique each time I do it. Maybe I need to build a few hundred pedals in 2023 🤣 Thanks as always for watching and for your support, it means the world to me.
Cool restoration. And those 70 Strats do command very high prices (in my view). Definitely not a factory route the "swimming pool style didn't come in until much later in the 80s
I just watched the video, I remember those days when fender sucked, and that strat is a prime example.. just junk & the lawsuit guitars from Japan were/are badass! Corporate greed was as real then as it is today. Great job!
Thanks for checking it out! It's wild that both Gibson and Fender were so bad back then, but I quite like the guitar now. The businessman in me is sad its not selling, but I'm happy to keep playing it for the time being
once upon a time someone threw a electric guitar in a dumpster.what was left I should say.my supposed friend told me take it if you want.so I did.well then police came and asked him about it.he promptly told on me taking it out.basicly it was just a body and neck.tthey came to my house and wanted it back. so I went and brought it to them and handed them a body and a neck and a small can of pieces.they looked at each other shook their heads and said this is what we came for?!!I said yep basically garbage and you're welcome to it.they could not believe they wasted their time.and I learned about what a true asshole was.
Its looks really bad :) The worst thing is that after that ,,restoration,, people asking on reverb 2000 Dollars. The price of this guitar is now MAX 700 dollars.
And yet, it sold for way more than $700. But thanks for putting a :)
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Love this video so much. And the guitar turned out beautiful.
So I just watched the video, and as many have said, I really do think you did a great job on this. A lot of people don't really know how difficult it is to spray, sand, polish and finish a nitrocellulose finish on a guitar, especially when you're learning the ups and downs yourself. I did it the same way, learned with a few pointers from some RUclipsrs and a whole to of mistakes, and with no power tools, except a nice Dewalt cordless drill I treated myself to a couple years ago. I'm in the middle of restoring a 1981 Kramer Voyager that had very serious wood damage to the body. this will be finished in polyurethane as it was originally, which is a new learning curve for me. Don't take this wrong, or in any way disrespectful, because it's not. I truthfully enjoyed watching you work here, and I do like your finished result. However I think I might have filled in that swimming pool rout with a good solid piece of ash, as close to the grain as possible, and rerouted the pickup cavities back to their original state, maybe even the neck pocket as you mentioned towards the beginning. I also would've used grain filler to give that finish a glass like look, but that's really just preference, I also really dig the visible grain like you've done here. My only reason would be that it is a vintage Strat, albeit a late 70's Stratocaster, but still a vintage Strat. Nice work my friend, I have a new channel I will be enjoying!!
Thanks for checking out the video! No worries on the suggestions, it’s the non-constructive comments that I could do without
Came back to watch this episode again.
Came here from the FB Group! Awesome work and immediately left a follow
Welcome!
If you think about it. that gap is not as bad as it looks. After all look how thick of a finish you removed. Add that same thickness to the neck and there is significant amount of that space that was filled. So maybe those shims were actually effective before it was all stripped. Over all great job on the rework and the effort you put in.
As for your soldering. I see we use the same iron. I did a TON of electronics work in the late 80's into the 90's at places like Harris RF who build military radios, ENI electronics navigation industries as well as other companies. Anyways I have a "how to" video up that may help you with soldering called "teaching Bardwell to Solder" in response to the perpetuation of bad information about soldering electronics where everyone's solution is to "Crank up the heat" which for people new to soldering leads to the total destruction of a lot of gear specially in the RC flight sector.
I've watched that soldering video! Like everything else, my issue falls into not doing it enough, such that I am re-learning the technique each time I do it. Maybe I need to build a few hundred pedals in 2023 🤣
Thanks as always for watching and for your support, it means the world to me.
Cool restoration. And those 70 Strats do command very high prices (in my view).
Definitely not a factory route the "swimming pool style didn't come in until much later in the 80s
Yeah, that's what I thought...even the 1980's gave Fender another shot at worsening their guitars :D
Great job 👌
I like this fender...
I just watched the video, I remember those days when fender sucked, and that strat is a prime example.. just junk & the lawsuit guitars from Japan were/are badass! Corporate greed was as real then as it is today. Great job!
Thanks for checking it out! It's wild that both Gibson and Fender were so bad back then, but I quite like the guitar now. The businessman in me is sad its not selling, but I'm happy to keep playing it for the time being
once upon a time someone threw a electric guitar in a dumpster.what was left I should say.my supposed friend told me take it if you want.so I did.well then police came and asked him about it.he promptly told on me taking it out.basicly it was just a body and neck.tthey came to my house and wanted it back. so I went and brought it to them and handed them a body and a neck and a small can of pieces.they looked at each other shook their heads and said this is what we came for?!!I said yep basically garbage and you're welcome to it.they could not believe they wasted their time.and I learned about what a true asshole was.
Why did you not use grain filler.
Because I liked the look
Scrape that poly with a blade bro! Much easier
That’s why you do projects, to learn what works and what doesn’t…thanks for watching!
Someone took off the serial number on the neck.i would say thats a fake neck from Japan
The serial number is on the front of the headstock