Matt300ZXT
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I picked up a used Carvin Bolt kit guitar the other day. It plays good, had some nice parts on it, and was a pretty good price in my opinion, so I picked it up. Having a tung oil finish on a kit guitar, I was prepared that it may not be the absolute best finish ever. The guitar has a few spots on the body that feel sticky. It may just be gunk on the guitar and not the finish itself, but there are spots that just make it seem like the guitar probably wasn't finished with much patience or attention to detail in mind. The bottle of oil he gave me look barely used, still up to the neck with fluid, like only a coat or maybe two were applied. I'm sure the maple neck was finished with the oil as well and it feels fine, nice and smooth, not sticky at all. I'll probably want to take care of it as well so I know how the whole guitar was finished.
Fast forward to my question: how would you guys go about stripping this to redo it with patience? I would imagine just hit it with some sandpaper and a block and get it smoothed down to a uniform appearance, then apply multiple coats of tung oil (it's Formsby's Tung Oil Finish) and letting it hang up a lot to dry properly?
Fast forward to my question: how would you guys go about stripping this to redo it with patience? I would imagine just hit it with some sandpaper and a block and get it smoothed down to a uniform appearance, then apply multiple coats of tung oil (it's Formsby's Tung Oil Finish) and letting it hang up a lot to dry properly?