Unfortunately while trying to quickly fix a strap button on my Olympic White AV65 Jazzmaster I got super glue all over it... I popped open the seal to the bottle near the strap button and without applying any pressure the glue went everywhere... So, I tried immediately wiping off which just made it worse, and then tried using some carefully applied acetone which - yep you guessed it - just took off some of the nitro around the glue. No way to save it, so I thought I'd make it a beater and play it as is. But, after receiving my '59/'67 back from a fresh refinish from MJT (and impressed with their work and how closely they listened to my direction), I decided to just go for a full refinish of the body and headstock. After much deliberation, I decided on a closet clean Daphne Blue finish - no checking (I live in Chicago anyway, and if it comes before May I'm sure it'll start checking in no time). I'd like to go gold hardware, so I might try and source as much as I can, but without a real vibrato I'm not sure if I'd like to do it. But, I will be getting a new spitfire guard, putting on normal JM pickup covers, and I might try and go for the shinier trem (if someone wants to trade, I'm down!)
Here's my inspiration shot:
You can see the damage here :
One thing to note when I took it apart is how faded and checked the original finish was (and how much paint my mastery trem ripped off....):
I'll be updating as I get photos from MJT. It went out yesterday and will arrive this week, so hopefully it'll be stripped asap!
. Eager to see the results.
