Jetglo finish...repair

cerrem · Post by **cerrem** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 10:57 pm

I resently bought a 1978 4001 in Jetglo...
It is pretty banged up on the headstock and around the body... I don't want to re-finish it..
So I found a neat trick that works really good for touching up the paint... Actually I learned this trick from a chic...who used matching red nail-polish to repair the scratches on her 1972 Camaro..
I found black nail-polish that is Nitrocellulose based...called "WetShine"...
I touched up all the areas a few layers...then the next day I put polishing compond on a rag and used a lot of elbow grease... I got the touch-ups to blend in a look good... From a few feet away it looks perfect...
The smell of the nail polish is strong..WOW!!!
Now i realize why my girlfriend is an "air-head"....she breaths all those fumes from doing her nails all the time.... Shes killing off the few brain cells she has left

Chris

throw_this_away · Post by **throw_this_away** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 11:27 am

Yeah someone told me the same thing years back and I used black nail polish to fix a chip in my MIM jazz bass. You couldn't see it unless I pointed it out.

Now I let the dings stay. It is part of the character of the instrument.

winston · Post by **winston** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:02 pm

I have used that trick for years on black guitars, thanks in part to my guitar tech at the time. It only works well for small chips though, in my experience.