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06-06-2017, 02:28 PM
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Epiphone finish question
Both I and a friend have Epiphones from 1965, his is a Cabellero, mine is a Texan. My Texan seems to have a typical laquer finish, crazed in a typical old guitar way. The Caballero, a 00 sized all hog guitar, has a much thicker finish. It has lived a hard life in Eastern apartments and a harsh climate. It has finished checked in a much more prominent way, to the point where there is quite a lot of finish flaked off to bare wood.
I've done some crack repair, leveled the frets, made a new bridge saddle and changed the tuners back to a more appropriate set of Klusons, and we are debating on doing a refinish. As this was probably Epiphone's cheapest guitar, it will never be a collectible, but it has a great deal of sentimental value. Might it have been a new type of easy to manufacture finish? .015 thick.
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06-06-2017, 06:03 PM
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It is nitro lacquer, AFAIK. I have seen satin finishes on the LG-0's (the Gibson equivalent). Satin lacquer seems to have more issues with adhesion.
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#3
06-07-2017, 06:20 AM
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It's nitro.....The thicker the nitro the worse it checks and flakes with age. That's the way it works....the thicker film has more trouble keeping pace with the expansion and contraction of the wood.
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