Stripping Avril Lavigne...Telecaster

[rhh7]

Well, I bought a Roasting Pan, meant for a 20 pound turkey, 16 15/16" x 12 1/2" x 2 5/8". Then I poured 1 litre of Circa 1850 paint stripper over the body into the bottom of the pan. The pan fits like a glove, and half of the body is in the stripper. I plan to let it sit for 8 hours, then flip, and let it sit another 8 hours. I will gently scrape with a paint scraper, then carefully sand with 60 grit paper. Should have totally bare body within 24 hours. Total cost for roasting pan and stripper was $15.00.

[thepassivevoice]

Originally Posted by rhh7

Total cost for roasting pan and stripper was $15.00.

You may regret this 50 years from now when original Avril Lavigne Tele's are fetching higher prices than 53 blackgaurds...

[yegbert]

Is that stripper the citrus type?

[pjgpopiel]

I hope you're not too disappointed when you find a body of 5 pieces of wood and a good 48 hours more of sanding.
If you wanted to paint it another color you already had the base !
If you wanted to start with bare wood , you should bought a raw wood body.
I'm not flaming you, talking from experiences, and not good ones.

[rhh7]

Yes, I sanded my Squier Affinity Fat Strat, that was about 3 weeks of sanding a little almost every day....a real chore. This stripper seems to work pretty well. You're probably right, but I like to learn by experience.

[nicktele5150]

Originally Posted by rhh7

Yes, I sanded my Squier Affinity Fat Strat, that was about 3 weeks of sanding a little almost every day....a real chore. This stripper seems to work pretty well. You're probably right, but I like to learn by experience.

i sanded down a friend of mines affinity strat in one day pretty much non stop with a plam sander and by hand and im never doin that again stripper is a lot better

[yegbert]

A friend of mine had a plywood guitar body come apart as a result of using a chemical stripper (not sure what kind/brand) to strip its finish. After that, he was skeptical of trying that approach again even on a multi-piece "solid wood" body, for fear it might come apart at the glued seams.

[rhh7]

Here is an update: after 2 1/2 hours I just had to check my project out. The finish had bubbled up something fierce. Took my paint scraper, and it came off just like a hot knife going through butter. I have 90% of the finish off of both sides of the guitar. The only finish left is around the sides, and about half of it is gone. Man, this polyurethane finish was really thick!

The reason I had to buy this Circa 1850 paint stripper is that all of the stores which were carrying Citristrip do not have it anymore. Either the Canadian government mandated it be taken off the market, or this stuff works better. It certainly seems to work as well as one of our members reported the Citristrip to work. I am pleasantly surprised!

[bnjp]

Okay...What was under the paint?

[pjgpopiel]

Now you'll have to deal with the sanding sealer.
The real tough job.

[rhh7]

It looks like 3 pieces of this:



a center strip 8" wide, and two symmetrical wings

how thick is the sanding sealer?

[rhh7]

Well, after soaking overnight, I think 90% of what must have been the sanding sealer came off this morning. It looks like long thin strips of white wax, like the encasement of a block of gouda cheese.

The guitar is a 4-piece body, the 8" center strip is actually two 4" strips.

[martyb1]

Originally Posted by rhh7

It looks like 3 pieces of this:



a center strip 8" wide, and two symmetrical wings

how thick is the sanding sealer?

That looks a lot like the basswood I got yesterday

[jwells393]

I hope you aren't planning to finish with a natural finish. Basswood is intended to be painted. You should have scuff sanded it and sprayed some paint on it. I think you've wasted a whole lot of time.

[fletch]

Can you post a photo of the whole body ? I'd be interested to see it

[Cyrithicus]

"Pics, or it didnt happen" as they say! :)

[rhh7]

[jwells393]

Good job stripping it. Now what are you going to do to it?

[rhh7]

aye, there's the rub...not sure...

[EddieN]

Ooh, copy up the one here ('cept with a control plate on yours): http://www.tdpri.com/forum/telecaste...p-esquire.html

[1293]

Originally Posted by rhh7

aye, there's the rub...not sure...

Something like this would be cool:

[yegbert]

Originally Posted by rhh7

Thanks for sharing the picture!

The grain is not striking like nice examples of ash, but IMHO may still be okay for a transparent finish.

Because I prefer a more traditional Tele bridge assembly and a more traditional Tele single coil pickup in that bridge...

If it was mine, I'd carve out and fill in the body for a more traditional Tele bridge and bridge pickup configuration. I'd carve using a Dremel, and probably fill using simple wood filler like plastic wood, because I don't have the tools or the skills to do it "properly" using a router and cleanly inserting a piece or two of real wood, and because to pay someone else to do that would seem inconsistent with the value of the Tele.

I did that with an alder-bodied Squier Tele Special that I got for $130 during a blowout sale at MF. That Tele has turned out to be one of my favorite Squier Teles.

And if I found one of these particular Teles in a similar blowout sale, or used for dirt cheap, I'd be tempted to buy it and do the same to it. So I could have a basswood body Tele and this unique neck.

[Tdot]

Originally Posted by yegbert

If it was mine, I'd carve out and fill in the body for a more traditional Tele bridge and bridge pickup configuration.

I'd like to see it as a GFS Mean90 Esquire!

[cdhopkin]

What brand of stripper was it?

[Skrik]

I vote for an Esquire jr.