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Bought this on eBay. Alder body stripped and refinished natural with one replaced saddle, knobs, pickguard, switch tip and tone cap.



So I refinished it using my "Home Depot Daphne Blue" method using the following:

Flat White



Harbor Blue



Nitrocellulose Clear



After spraying white and the color, here's what it looked like:


Next I wet sanded using 2000 grit, then 0000 steel wool and Kiwi brown shoe polish, followed by more steel wool after which I sanded and dinged some corners. Add a Dakaware "Top Hat" switch tip, re-issue flat knobs, Guitar Fetish Mint Green pickguard that received the steel wool/Kiwi treatment and that I notched for the truss rod nut. The Clay Smith Cams sticker was my final touch.

Wow. Just wow. I love it.

Nice.

BONERTOWN

Seriously hot shit compared to the hardwoodfloorcaster it previously was.

Seriously hot shit compared to the hardwoodfloorcaster it previously was.

+1

Great Job!

Great job! that looks awesome!

Very fine. Real 71? Hadda be spendy.

DGNR8 wrote:Very fine. Real 71? Hadda be spendy.

Real. I received a bonus at work and sold my Jaguar to buy it... spendy indeed.

Bookmarked for future refin reference.

Really well done, fantastic job.

Nice work. Looks really great. How's it sound?

<3 Deft. I use that for my finishing also.

cooterfinger wrote:Nice work. Looks really great. How's it sound?

Like butter. I'll have to post some clips at some point.

that looks amazing.
post more pics, post sounds.
post everything!

I've played two 71 Teles, one was fantastic, the other was even better.

Congrats on the guitar. I don't know how I feel about "re-relicing" but all in all it looks nice and that's what matters.