Could I Remove A Single Layer Of Paint From A Guitar?

[hot_karl]

I got a 1954 harmony stratatone guitar (same guitar used by Ritchy Valens, Tom Waits etc.. Pre Stratocaster) for a great price, but some jackass took the stone's words to heart and painted it black.... the sad part is that on the headstock where the name is I can see the origional beautiful vibrant gold sparkle paint job.... which looks amazing.

 

this thing sounds unreal but the paint job is so horribly done that everytime I look at it I just :facepalm::facepalm:

 

Can I fix this?

[eti]

Maybe. Post pics.

[bieke]

any idea about what type of paint was used, acrylic, latex, spraycan, other ?
if you don't know, you should experiment with these three methods

Abrasive--"Abrading" the painted surface by manual and/or mechanical means such as scraping and sanding. Generally used for surface preparation and limited paint removal.

Thermal--Softening and raising the paint layers by applying heat followed by scraping and sanding. Generally used for total paint removal.

Chemical--Softening of the paint layers with chemical strippers followed by scraping and sanding. Generally used for total paint removal.



that didn't help much

[bieke]

I got a 1960's Stratotone by the way

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depends acrylic has different solvents to poly

 

BUT those solvents may also remove or negatively effect the poly underneath (if thats what it originally was)