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Old 11-16-2013, 07:57 PM
samcatluth samcatluth is offline
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Default a finish question and a yamaha question

When repairing a small dent on the top of a guitar deep enough for the wood to be exposed when you try to match the color with a lacquer stick (like from stew-mac) the end grain absorbs more color making it appear darker. So the center is the right color but the borders are darker. Any way to avoid this?

The other question, on a Yamaha s50a designed for both steel and classical strings apparently there are silk and steel strings available which I am not familiar with. It has no truss rod. What would you all recommend for strings?

thanks, Jeff B
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Old 11-17-2013, 12:41 AM
Ned Milburn Ned Milburn is offline
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Usually dents that rip wood grain will not be made invisible and the end grain will be slightly darker with many (most) common repair techniques. A way to minimize this would be to seal the wood then lay a thin tinted coat of lacquer to match the target color, then to lay clear top coats to build up the height of the remaining dent.
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