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[quote name='Mr. Foxen' post='861482' date='Jun 8 2010, 09:09 PM']Drill your other pilot holes bigger/ deeper. 3 screws will work fine. Getting it out will be a huge pain,....[/quote] +1 Then superglue the sheared head back into it's hole.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='861355' date='Jun 8 2010, 07:12 PM']I thought it was the whole neck he wanted refinishing. [/quote] Akshuly reading it again, you're probably right. When he said "Do I just lay some masking tape over the frets?" I never considered that he meant masking off each individual fret. Best of luck with that like.

Personally I don't get it (but then I'm hung up on Surf Green which isn't to everyone's taste). I can appreciate that a shell pink guitar may look nice on it's own but then you have to imagine being up on stage with it and ask yourself "Who am I more likely to get chatted up by after the gig? The blonde or the guy in the leather cap with a fetching Mexican moustache". Now fluorescent pink....

[quote name='steve-soar' post='861329' date='Jun 8 2010, 06:39 PM']I've refinished maple necks and you have to rub down the entire neck, fingerboard included, you basically have to sand in between the frets and that is the tricky part. You then have to file and sand the lacquer off the frets, as if you were doing a fret dressing, taping up the exposed fingerboard to leave the frets showing.[/quote] I've done 1 or 2 myself (including re-frets) and it is entirely possible to treat both sides of the neck as a separate jobs, with the front of the headstock a third. If you don't need to go near the fingerboard then don't.

[quote name='Marky L' post='861323' date='Jun 8 2010, 06:34 PM']Removing frets!?!? Oh my oh my! I am starting to think that maybe I like the pale maple silky look! Never removed, nor replaced a fret in my life.[/quote] It's not a job for all but it is certainly less scary than it sounds. Dude just go back to the original plan. I've seen plenty aged necks with a lighter fingerboard.

[quote name='Marky L' post='861204' date='Jun 8 2010, 04:50 PM']...I was actually thinking of doing the fretboard too (*runs and hides) and was wondering about coating the frets with wax instead of little strips of masking tape prior to varnishing...."[/quote] Nice lateral thinking but I think it would be easier to simply remove the frets, spray it and put new ones back in.... but that's me.

[quote name='Marky L' post='861204' date='Jun 8 2010, 04:50 PM']...I was actually thinking of doing the fretboard too (*runs and hides) and was wondering about coating the frets with wax instead of little strips of masking tape prior to varnishing...."[/quote] Nice bit of lateral thinking but I think it would be easier to simply remove the frets, spray it and put new ones back in.... but that's me.

Ain't we all.

My bad Clarky. As soon as I clicked the post button I realised that it was presumptuous of me to have used the word "purely". To be fair though your poll was mostly about appearance.

[quote name='steve-soar' post='861001' date='Jun 8 2010, 02:03 PM']Is it straight, are the frets level, is it fit for purpose? Then bolt it on and stop worrying about its appearance. [/quote] That's a bit rum Steve, nobody said that to Clarky in his poll thread about this very neck... which he swapped back purely based upon appearance. [quote name='steve-soar' post='861006' date='Jun 8 2010, 02:05 PM']Re-lacquering a maple neck and board is really tricky.[/quote] Yep it can be tricky, especially with the frets in place but he's planning on masking off the entire fingerboard and just spraying the easy bits.

Oops, it's actually manchesterguitartech.[b]co.uk[/b]. Oh and don't worry about it, I'm very philosophical about these things.

[quote name='BottomEndian' post='860866' date='Jun 8 2010, 12:11 PM']:brow:[/quote] I honestly didn't see that 'til now.

Oh and one tin will easily do a whole neck.

I shouldn't be helping because I posted dibs on this neck You'll get some excellent nitro varnish from manchesterguitartech.com. You'll have to remove all traces of varnish from the neck (excluding the fingerboard of course) as it might react badly to whatever is on there just now. When it comes to spraying, mask off the finger board and spray all over in light coats - it literally goes touch dry in minutes so you can build up the layers every 20 mins or so on a warm day (don't spray on a damp or rainy day). Put some screws in the heel screw holes for hanging. Don't breath in the spray, it's supposed to be nasty sheit. Good luck.

Use Vaseline on the extender's contact points and put a wee bit of pencil lead dust in the nut groove for dry lubrication.

Sounds like a short. Have you had a look under the control plate?

I know that geoffbyrne has used the. Shoot him a PM.

[quote name='Tee' post='858803' date='Jun 6 2010, 12:26 PM']Looks quite Robert De Leo.[/quote] He's playing a T-bird these days.

I'm more partial to a bit of spalt.

Is it a wee Allen key?