Paisley Esquire neck gunk

Glad you got the gunk out. Would love to see more picks of your paisley esquire.

 

Acetone on a lacquer finished neck? No wonder it feels smooth now. It probably has no finish.

 

It's in the specs. Nitrocellulose lacquer. It's one of the main selling points of the Road Worn series. And acetone takes it right off.

Is your acetone old? It should make a mess of any type of lacquer. But it does go bad IME. I've used very old acetone on lacquer as a cleaner (after testing first, of course).

Also, some stuff that gets sold as acetone these days (especially over the counter in CA) is actually something much less harsh.

If you just used a very tiny amount, then it probably just contributed to knocking back the finish a bit. Or if it has gone off over the decades, or is the fake acetone stuff sold in CA, then that's what saved your neck. Real, full strength acetone would have taken the finish right off.

 

Acetone on lacquer...... silly, silly, silly.
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Someone needs to stop playing in a chain mail suit.

 

I remember Don Mare buying an earlier Road Worn and he used I think Lacquer Thinner and before he knew it, he'd removed substantially all the finish on the body. Give the key words I've just entered a try on an Advanced Search and see what comes up.

Anyway, I think there's a catalyzed sealer at the very least, on these necks and so I would be a little surprised if it stripped all the way back to bare wood.

Also, Acetone is just one element in a potent blend of solvents, what I call Lacquer Thinner. There's Toluene, and some Alcohols, sometimes Xylene and the combination of these things into a cocktail, may be why Acetone would do one thing and Lacquer Thinner something much more.

 

Toluene ... isn't that what they made model glue out of in the '60s ?

 

SO.... no one has any idea what the "gunk" on the neck was? Just want to keep berating the guy for using acetone to clean it? LOL

I, for one, AM wondering what the "gunk" could have been.... any guesses?

 

Zippo lighter fluid is supposed to work on most finishes as a cleaner according to people on this forum.

 

I love when the collective consciousness latches onto something, and then just beats the hell out of that dead horse....

No idea on the gunk, but where's the fun in beating up gunk.

 

My 2011 50s Road Worn Blonde tele is a Nitro body with a Polyester urethane finished neck. The frets are not covered with poly.

 

Go easy there, it could be expensive rare relic'd tone gunk

 

My guess is it was polishing compound that someone forgot to clean off the guitar before packaging.

 

I thought it was a city in central Texas...