Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

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

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.

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.