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Attempted refin of a Washburn force 40


Mr. Foxen
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Got this sort of from ebay, turned out to be a BCer, to made alternate arrangements involving less fees. At some point someone had done a terrible refin of the top, with lumpiness and bits of wood showing through. So I figured strip it back and start again. When I got to the middle, interestingly it had no through neck showing, must have a top cap of really boring wood. By the time I'd taken it back far enough to lose the horrible gouges their removal of the original finish had left, I find the through neck:

[URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1591_zpsa42d07a2.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1591_zpsa42d07a2.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

More fun to make that not look silly now.

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Worked the middle through to expose all of the through neck, think will make a feature of it, stain it darker to accentuate, but not black like I planned:

[URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1590_zps8dd5cb7a.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1590_zps8dd5cb7a.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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I'm liking this.

I have a soft spot for Washburns having started out on a force 4 of the era - it was the same body shape but just a P pickup, bolt on construction and a ply body as I recall. I painted it pink (it was the 80's and I was young and foolish) and it had the look and texture of a sugared almond when I was finished. I sold it on a few years later and the guy who bought it had a terrible time trying to get the pink paint off it!

I expect far greater things from this refin!

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Scraped back and fine sanded by hand, the stain is still there, but less so, still a bit pink, got a kind of Gunter Hagens thig going on, might leave it, need to look in proper daylight.

This is with some white spirit wiped over so it looks like it will oiled:
[URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1600_zpsc29f3f27.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1600_zpsc29f3f27.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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  • 2 weeks later...

Left it laying about for the oil to cure, and considered what pickups to go in. Realised the originals are probably fine, but gonna lose the active bits. Stuck them in, and decide how to wire it:

[URL=http://s17.photobucket.com/user/Incarante/media/DSCF1650_zpsc6c54ec8.jpg.html][IMG]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b69/Incarante/DSCF1650_zpsc6c54ec8.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

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