This page provides a look at the body cavities; Good for future-reference files; Better than x-ray! A picture of tuners disassembled, oil bath and reassembled are at bottom of this page. |
Wires and fretboard masked and painted on Next Page >>> |
1953 Valco El Grande Steel Guitar Customer's Work Progress Reports ~ Page 10; Views of Body Disassembled ~ |
Wires and fretboard masked and painted on Next Page >>> |
This page provides a look at the body cavities; Good for future-reference files; Better than x-ray! A picture of tuners disassembled, oil bath and reassembled are at bottom of this page. |
Tuners are disassembled and put into a capillary penetrating oil soak bath. One half of a disassembled wood clothespin is put under each row of tuner buttons to keep them out of the oil. The oil will allow easy brushing off of active corrosion, leaving an original condition patina. |
The fretboard was applied by silkscreening, over the paint coat of laquer, and the laquer has much checking under the silksreening ...with small cracks along most of the checking. After carefully cleaning the fretboard, I will mask around it and then seal it with as many coats of thinned clear polyurethane as required to reach down into and fill and stabilize the checking in both the base coat and in the fretboard silkscreening. Once the checking is filled then successive coats of clear polyurethane will be added to level the checking and provide an excellent, protective, non-glare satin coating over the fretboard. I will then run a razor knife along the masked edges before removing the masking tape; And that will separate the body checking from checking under and on the fretboard so that pulling the masking tape off will only lift the old badly checked topcoat on the body and not the fretboard. After the urethane cures for about 10 days then the fretboard can be masked off for removal of the body's finish for whatever new finish or natural treatment might be desired. |
Plenty of room for electronics and wires; I like that ! All screw holes will be refreshed with piloted dowels. |
Tuners cleaned and their very small amount of surface corrosion brushed clean, all surfaces oil treated and reassembled. |
