Don't know what's the coolest party of this video,the delicate reliving and refinishing, the lovely 1958 Strat or those beautiful cans of real 1950s nitro
I understand where you're coming from, but that would not work with the aging on the neck and hardware. At least they are referencing the sunburst (as a 57 would be stock) in the final product. Just my 2 cents but thats more respectful of the next buyer and tying the whole vibe together. Peace
What's a great video excellent restoration. My preference would be never paint a guitar I don't even want to paint the crappy ones I pick up that are made in China from the 80s. For me the only modifications are Hardware related so it plays. But this is not my video or my guitar excellent work!
Amazing job Joe! He's so humble, a kind hearted gentleman, with artisan abilities. I've been so blessed to experience his skills setting up a few of my guitars. Thanks for this video!
I enjoy watching anything restored. Guitars, cars & vintage gas pumps. Joe knows what’s up, particularly with his authentic vintage porcelain signs in his shop. Killer!!!
Love that he used NOS paint. Green is not my first choice but it looked so nice as he was laying it on. His spray technique is so smooth. The relic job looks reliced. They never look right. A guitar has to earn it's wear the old fashioned way. A refinished "closet queen" 58 Strat would have been way cool.
You can definitely tell that he has painted a ton in his life . Very nice!!!! Still super cool that you was able to acquire all of that old paint and it held up... I bet if you took 5 cans of paint these days and stored it for the same amount of time, that it would be unusable. Products these days seem to never hold up and last....
What’s the point of a refinish if you’re going to just destroy the new finish the second it’s on? The guitar had a cool history and now it looks like a Mexican reissue Strat
I bought alot of this paint from a paint store in Ft Worth Texas and on the shelf was the dupont book which I bought along with alot of the paint which I shot most of the colors from before 2004. This metalic green looks like the one off Joe Menza owns.. same color.. Great show enjoyed this alot.
Had so many cans of that stuff in the 90s no body wanted it . Wish had it now. I like the not feathering out all the chips then needing high build. I have Binks #7 for full effect next time,😁.
I like the fact that the body was refinished in an actual original paint and color, but I don't like relic'ing guitars for any reason. I'd have specified to leave the new body finish in pristine condition. Let it earn new wear marks by actual play wear.
No relic job looks good imo. Not even the Murphy shop stuff. Hi gloss finish with spots worn down to the wood. Doesn't make sense to my eyes. Its kinda like plastic surgery. something always seems a little off. Only in rare cases do you not notice. I love the use of the old ducco nitro though. Very cool
@@frankwebster9110 My thoughts exactly, I call them "Original Fakes"! If your going to refinish a guitar then refinish it but don't refinish a guitar then rub it down & mark it up on purpose then still call it an "original"!!!
Great content! I’m glad to have a touch of Joe’s experience available here. Of course we all would have loved to see his relic’ing process, but yeah.. of course folks don’t just give up their craft. Great outcome, incredible story. Insane collection of paint. I would have chosen another color, but fantastic !
I had a pine strat body a custom guitar maker shoot in 1950s Cadillac green but it was a non metallic color. The guitar came out really great after the relicing it looked even better. Had a 59 single cut Gibson melody maker done in 1950s gold bullion paint. The 50s paint is still out there. Good relic jobs are ones where you can't tell that its not original. RSguitarworks did an 81 Dean V for me and we decided to leave the original neck finish and redo the body in the original blue burst. They took a paint chip from inside the pick up cavity and matched the paint. The did such a great job the Gruhn specialist at a Tenn guitar show couldn't tell which part of the paint was original and which part had been refinished. Thats pretty darn good IMO. RS had refinished stuff for Gruhn so thats say a lot for RSguitarworks and their abilities.
I picked up a stratocastor in 1971 from a pawnshop until a couple of months ago. I know it was old and I thought it was a 57 but a family friend who is a great guitar tech informed me that it is a 54 serial number 260 the neck was done by Tadeo Gomez and the wiring was done by Gloria We have named the guitar after her great channel love watching. Thank you.
@@charlie00 Back then a 54 Strat was just a 17 year old used guitar, I had dropped my Univox Les Paul because someone had a wee too much to drink….😉 Went looking the next week and found the guitar that would later be known as Gloria… The pawn guy charged me $125 and my broken guitar and I guess we both were happy 😉
I rebuilt and refinished a 1963 Fender stratocaster body in lake Placid Blue. I was thinking Fiesta Red or Lake Placid blue, for my choices. It had been horned (kinda like a gibson sg) and swimming pooled. I redid the horns to original Strat look and left the swiming pool rout. It has three Lindy Fralin vintage hots in it now. I bought it for $100 as somebodies bad idea. It was a working guitar. It had layers of black paint atop of thick green paint. Might of originally been white ? I just got in there and stripped it down. Preserving any yellow dip in any cavity. And the pencil date. 5/63 Every thing on the guitar now is non original. Just a 63 Strat body. I bought it from the guy that took some 1961 pups and Electronics out of the body beforehand. I asked around and nobody put any value on the body. But I did. It is a one piece alder 63 with date in the trem cavity. It is a great strat that took apx 4 months to put together. It's a keeper. And will only be naturally aging. I don't like relics myself. What's the point if you will playing it as an instrument.
that thing sounds so fantastic - what a great Strat! Nice playing too - I love the spaghetti western surf style, it so suits this instrument and that amp too.
a great clip with brilliant work and a pleasure to hear the natural Fender sounds with the demo, rather that over driven . thanks for sharing, cheers from NZ
Mike gets some really nice vintage guitars in his shop in Freemont there. I call it the candy store in a way, its allot. When you walk in its serious Les Paul/Tele land. Make it a habbit to go upstairs n see accoustic land. One of the best vintage guitar stores in Seattle hands down!!
I don't really get your color choice for this but it's amazing to have a whole 58 back in action. Congratulations. I'd be interested in the backstory of the paint score. Where was that stuff put up all these years?
OK, so I saw that green go on and I was like noooo! How about an original burst? I thought that was a terrible idea until I saw the finished product. Beautiful!!
i get excited when I see those old cans of Dupont Duco. I have a few original colors in my stash along with some old Lucite. Could still get Lucite mixed up in the early 90's.
@@handmadeindustrial If you restore a classic car you'd also redo the upholstery and the soft top. It would look weird if you'd respray the car but keep the crumbling soft top. So some relicing would make the guitar look more whole. That said, I'm not a fan of the amount of relicing they've done to the guitar. It just looks ugly now.
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Man that’s one of the best spraying techniques I’ve seen…almost mechanical movement!
The best gun hands look like a robot when applying….
11:36 it looked incredible the way it was here
agreed!
That was fantastic to watch Joe spray that finish, they way he did it was very precise, I imagine he's done it countless times.
Amazing sympathetically aged refinish, a true artisan at work. Nicely played at the end too, sounds soo sweet!
Don't know what's the coolest party of this video,the delicate reliving and refinishing, the lovely 1958 Strat or those beautiful cans of real 1950s nitro
We'res the party LoL
The fresh respray looked incredible before it got messed with. Like a Closet Classic
I understand where you're coming from, but that would not work with the aging on the neck and hardware. At least they are referencing the sunburst (as a 57 would be stock) in the final product. Just my 2 cents but thats more respectful of the next buyer and tying the whole vibe together. Peace
What's a great video excellent restoration. My preference would be never paint a guitar I don't even want to paint the crappy ones I pick up that are made in China from the 80s. For me the only modifications are Hardware related so it plays. But this is not my video or my guitar excellent work!
This was a pleasure to watch. Joe is a master at his craft.
Holy duco and lucite! I’ve only read about this stuff in books and old hot rod magazines. Great eye for detail on his restorations.
A true artisan work… watching you spray paint the guitar with 1950’s lacquer opened my eyes to how much I would enjoy doing that for a living.
Amazing job Joe! He's so humble, a kind hearted gentleman, with artisan abilities. I've been so blessed to experience his skills setting up a few of my guitars. Thanks for this video!
Save a can for gibson so they can make a custom shop model with vintage lacquer and charge $20,000 for it lmaoo
@Lovesgibson £30.000 because they knocked it when putting it on the bench, so it’s now Murphy lab aged…
Add $20k more for a Slash decal on the back of the headstock
Would be a waste of lacquer. Lol.
How did Saul ever become thought of as a good guitar player ???😖😖😖😖😖😖
@@jamiemorgan4146 He’s fun and inspired thousands of kids to play guitar. I guess the opposite of you haha.
i could watch this all day. Absolutely stunning, and such a unique NOS color and finish. You are a lucky man.
I enjoy watching anything restored. Guitars, cars & vintage gas pumps. Joe knows what’s up, particularly with his authentic vintage porcelain signs in his shop. Killer!!!
Nice to see my refinished purple paisley Gibson Victory Bass in the background. Joe is a master craftsman, and I’m really happy with the end result.
This is so awesome! Beautiful work by Joe! A master indeed!
Love that he used NOS paint. Green is not my first choice but it looked so nice as he was laying it on. His spray technique is so smooth. The relic job looks reliced. They never look right. A guitar has to earn it's wear the old fashioned way. A refinished "closet queen" 58 Strat would have been way cool.
It was a pleasure to watch JOE spraying that guitar! Nicely done. Plenty of practice is very obvious.
Incredible skill painting the body, every movement was calibrated, almost like a robot.
that stuff looks like it dries fast too
You can definitely tell that he has painted a ton in his life . Very nice!!!! Still super cool that you was able to acquire all of that old paint and it held up...
I bet if you took 5 cans of paint these days and stored it for the same amount of time, that it would be unusable. Products these days seem to never hold up and last....
What’s the point of a refinish if you’re going to just destroy the new finish the second it’s on? The guitar had a cool history and now it looks like a Mexican reissue Strat
I agree . I would prefer a perfect refin green with the aged original neck and hardware.
Joe was blessed with a gift from God to be able to do this kind of work. What a true joy it is to know him
I love the green, not typical but not so wild as to be off-putting either. I hope all the old lacquer works out just as well
That is the best aging I've seen. Period perfect and a true improvement over the original- which is seldom the case. Fantastic work.
Gorgeous, the craftsmanship is just off the charts, Bravo!!!!!!
Man that strat has such a sweet tone not brittle or too glassy but just wonderful.
Hes done a beautiful job and the guitar itself sounds great. Sounds of the 50’s right there.❤
I appreciate the artistry and craftsmanship on this old instruments
I bought alot of this paint from a paint store in Ft Worth Texas and on the shelf was the dupont book which I bought along with alot of the paint which I shot most of the colors from before 2004.
This metalic green looks like the one off Joe Menza owns..
same color.. Great show enjoyed this alot.
Had so many cans of that stuff in the 90s no body wanted it . Wish had it now. I like the not feathering out all the chips then needing high build. I have Binks #7 for full effect next time,😁.
It’s so flipping beautiful I can’t stand it!!! That green is absolutely perfect!
Awesome job... looks amazing.. very natural.. Kudos to Joe
I found this whole video very calming. Nice work everyone!
Well done gents. First video I’ve seen of y’all’s and absolutely had to sub. Right on!!!
I like the fact that the body was refinished in an actual original paint and color, but I don't like relic'ing guitars for any reason. I'd have specified to leave the new body finish in pristine condition. Let it earn new wear marks by actual play wear.
No relic job looks good imo. Not even the Murphy shop stuff. Hi gloss finish with spots worn down to the wood. Doesn't make sense to my eyes. Its kinda like plastic surgery. something always seems a little off. Only in rare cases do you not notice. I love the use of the old ducco nitro though. Very cool
AGREED!
Same
@@frankwebster9110 My thoughts exactly, I call them "Original Fakes"! If your going to refinish a guitar then refinish it but don't refinish a guitar then rub it down & mark it up on purpose then still call it an "original"!!!
i totally agree! putting a relic finish on a guitar is so phony and ugly. if that's what you want then why refinish the guitar at all?
Supreme look. Full respect for dedication given to this project! :)
Beautiful work. Seeing all that old Duco is amazing. Skinny NuTs!
Great content! I’m glad to have a touch of Joe’s experience available here. Of course we all would have loved to see his relic’ing process, but yeah.. of course folks don’t just give up their craft. Great outcome, incredible story. Insane collection of paint. I would have chosen another color, but fantastic !
Joe is the best! His work is spot on, every time.
this video is fucking gold, Joe Riggio is a legend for this work. this video has grew an urge within me to seek out this lacquer now lol
Looks awesome! Great job, Joe!
What a detailed refinish with the NOS paint. Absolutely outstanding!
So cool. And that maybe the best sounding Strat I’ve ever heard.
A real true garage shop… love it!
Joe's work is unreal!
Wish you had left it alone. You all can do good work tho. Best Regards and Best Wishes for 2023!
That is absolutely stunning and such a great documentation
Gorgeous!! Joe is The Man
I had a pine strat body a custom guitar maker shoot in 1950s Cadillac green but it was a non metallic color.
The guitar came out really great after the relicing it looked even better.
Had a 59 single cut Gibson melody maker done in 1950s gold bullion paint. The 50s paint is still out there.
Good relic jobs are ones where you can't tell that its not original.
RSguitarworks did an 81 Dean V for me and we decided to leave the original neck finish and redo the body in the original blue burst.
They took a paint chip from inside the pick up cavity and matched the paint.
The did such a great job the Gruhn specialist at a Tenn guitar show couldn't tell which part of the paint was original and which part had been refinished. Thats pretty darn good IMO.
RS had refinished stuff for Gruhn so thats say a lot for RSguitarworks and their abilities.
The intro to the sound demo, so good. Rad guitar.
Good relic jobs are rare. This is probably as good as one could hope for. It's convincing for sure.
Beautiful work! Thank you for making this video!!!
Thank you for sharing and producing this content. I enjoyed this immensely.
Sounds so good!
Absolutely fantastic. Beautiful. Stunning. Joe is the man!
I sprayed with Lucite back in the day. Never had the chance to lay down some old Duco.
Conversation takes eternity
Lol, I swear my uncle’s ‘56 Buick was that exact colour!
Turned out great!
I love lacquer paint... I love spraying it as well 😎 I use to spray this stuff back in the day....
Joe is a true craftsman!
Wow, It turned out incredible!
Just fantastic!
Oh man! You guys are getting some unheard of stuff!
I picked up a stratocastor in 1971 from a pawnshop until a couple of months ago. I know it was old and I thought it was a 57 but a family friend who is a great guitar tech informed me that it is a 54 serial number 260 the neck was done by Tadeo Gomez and the wiring was done by Gloria We have named the guitar after her great channel love watching. Thank you.
That sounds amazing! Is it all original?
@@charlie00 yep
@@Cream1968 That is crazy. I would love to find something like that in a pawn shop. Feel like it is a lot rarer these days.
@@charlie00 Back then a 54 Strat was just a 17 year old used guitar, I had dropped my Univox Les Paul because someone had a wee too much to drink….😉 Went looking the next week and found the guitar that would later be known as Gloria… The pawn guy charged me $125 and my broken guitar and I guess we both were happy 😉
@@Cream1968 wow that is crazy. good thing you dropped the les paul i guess.
Very cool. what a find on the original lacquor
Beautiful playing.
Beautiful guitar.
What a beautiful piece to find and my God... what an artist is Joe? Outstanding👏 video!
its an art best aging i ever saw
Joe is the best!!
Amazing that the lacquer stood up after all those years ,
I rebuilt and refinished a 1963 Fender stratocaster body in lake Placid Blue. I was thinking Fiesta Red or Lake Placid blue, for my choices. It had been horned (kinda like a gibson sg) and swimming pooled. I redid the horns to original Strat look and left the swiming pool rout. It has three Lindy Fralin vintage hots in it now. I bought it for $100 as somebodies bad idea. It was a working guitar.
It had layers of black paint atop of thick green paint. Might of originally been white ? I just got in there and stripped it down. Preserving any yellow dip in any cavity. And the pencil date. 5/63
Every thing on the guitar now is non original. Just a 63 Strat body. I bought it from the guy that took some 1961 pups and Electronics out of the body beforehand.
I asked around and nobody put any value on the body. But I did. It is a one piece alder 63 with date in the trem cavity. It is a great strat that took apx 4 months to put together. It's a keeper. And will only be naturally aging. I don't like relics myself. What's the point if you will playing it as an instrument.
What a fantastic video have a good weekend
I’ve been eying this guitar on reverb for a week or so, now I see this… Must be a sign
Oh man, that's beautiful!
Fabulous job Joe!!!!
Excellente vidéo, un plaisir à regarder puis entendre, merci
that thing sounds so fantastic - what a great Strat! Nice playing too - I love the spaghetti western surf style, it so suits this instrument and that amp too.
That is a gorgeous looking and sounding Strat! 😍
a great clip with brilliant work and a pleasure to hear the natural Fender sounds with the demo, rather that over driven . thanks for sharing, cheers from NZ
His arm technique looks like a articulate machine!
Thing sounds UNREAL!!
Man awesome video. I wish I had that talent I love vintage fenders. I've just never been able to afford one. Great job
Mike gets some really nice vintage guitars in his shop in Freemont there. I call it the candy store in a way, its allot. When you walk in its serious Les Paul/Tele land. Make it a habbit to go upstairs n see accoustic land. One of the best vintage guitar stores in Seattle hands down!!
Wow that is so cool you can use the original paint
I don't really get your color choice for this but it's amazing to have a whole 58 back in action. Congratulations.
I'd be interested in the backstory of the paint score. Where was that stuff put up all these years?
Very cool finish.
Man, that guitar. That's the real deal right there.
OK, so I saw that green go on and I was like noooo! How about an original burst? I thought that was a terrible idea until I saw the finished product. Beautiful!!
He is a true aficionado of paint and wear patterns ! Awesome job !
That is tasteful. Cool guitar.
Fantastic job, thanks for sharing.
My 1962 Pontiac Bonneville had a Dupont Duco tag under the hood.
It was a tough paint job,,, it held up.
Man that’s just gorgeous
i get excited when I see those old cans of Dupont Duco. I have a few original colors in my stash along with some old Lucite. Could still get Lucite mixed up in the early 90's.
Ole buddy knows what he’s doing. I’d really like to talk to him for a while.
while i would have definitely left it alone, this was a superb refin. and an absolutely gorgeous sounding strat!
Great job ❤
Flippin' phenomenal color!
Keep it original or a new finish. No fake relic jobs ,no matter how good the craftsmanship is.
That’s my feeling at about two minutes in… Let’s see how I feel by the end. 😊
Yeah, not my thing.
All the other parts have wear though. It would look weird with a brand spanking new paint on the body only.
I can't imagine restoring a classic car only to have a shopping cart thrown at it at walmart, and then rusted artificially with acid and salt.
@@handmadeindustrial If you restore a classic car you'd also redo the upholstery and the soft top. It would look weird if you'd respray the car but keep the crumbling soft top. So some relicing would make the guitar look more whole.
That said, I'm not a fan of the amount of relicing they've done to the guitar. It just looks ugly now.
Your technique looks incredible. Machine like
ohhh man that perfect! kind of like an old sherwood green love man dam i want one