Members because_you_can Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 So long story short I used planet waves cleaning products to clean my Highway one strat and now the matte color (nitro finish) is glossy. Is there any way to get the flat black color back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slashfacepalm Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 Eat alot of fried chicken messily and play for a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members thick_mike Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 Not easy, the matt finish is due to microscopic surface roughness. If your cleaning products have smoothed this roughness down, you need to make it rough again. There was a thread about a year ago about producing a matt finish on a Les Paul poly finish using (I think) scotchbrite pads. It originated on another site devoted to Les Pauls, but I can't remember which one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members doc oc Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 What cleaning agent was it? in case anyone wants to reproduce your results.Got any pics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoneNut Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 So long story short I used planet waves cleaning products to clean my Highway one strat and now the matte color (nitro finish) is glossy.Is there any way to get the flat black color back? Back so soon? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Lump Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 I remember that thread and still want to do it to my agile. It was those scotch brite pads with a vibrating sander, and then using some type of rubbing compound. The paul that they did it on looked so nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted January 23, 2010 Members Share Posted January 23, 2010 most people do the opposite Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members because_you_can Posted January 24, 2010 Author Members Share Posted January 24, 2010 Alright well I'll try to look for the thread you guys mentioned. The good part is that although it is glossy, the nitro finish still allows for battle scars to look awesome, but I think if it was back to it's flat look, it would look more vintage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members slashfacepalm Posted January 24, 2010 Members Share Posted January 24, 2010 I remember that thread and still want to do it to my agile. It was those scotch brite pads with a vibrating sander, and then using some type of rubbing compound. The paul that they did it on looked so nice. This? http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/epiphone-les-pauls/17007-dulling-poly-finished-guitars-pic-heavy.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cratz2 Posted January 24, 2010 Members Share Posted January 24, 2010 I LOVE that matte/satin black look and for quite a while, I really wanted a matte/satin black strat with a glossy black pickguard and a neck with an ebony fretboard. I thought about buying a Highway One body or either refinishing one of my bodies or having it refinished. The problem is, nitro is so soft, without a clear satin coat on top of the nitro, it will naturally buff out from use. Pretty quickly. I've seen same year Highway One bodies where the whole arm bevel looks damn near perfectly polished from only a few months of use. To go a cheesy route, you could strip the finsh and hit it with a few layers of flat black spray paint. I would imagine that would yield the longest lasting matte black finish. For the record, I've seen an awful lot of black vintage strats over the last 25 years or so and most of them had a pretty decent amount of gloss going on. I suppose if the guitar was never cleaned/polished, it might look a bit satin, but often just a wipe down without anything other than a cloth will restore a decent amount of gloss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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