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I have a 76' 3000 maple-glo and it has a dime sized chip out of the finish near the tail on the back with some cracking happening yet not real bad. I would still like to put a fix on it. I know a man who refinishes furniture and is interested in covering it for me but he want s to be true to the original finish. I told him of appling clear nail polish and he wanted to do a more traditional approach.

MY questions are in regards to what type may have been used say a nitro or polymer or what may have been used for that year?????

any help is appreciated

Andy

Andrew, read through this thread:

Repairing A Chip

The chip repair was done on Fireglo, but the technique would be the same. You might have to match the mapleglo by adding some other nail polish color as I'm sure the mapleglo on your Rick has ambered somewhat. Paul W will probably suggest what color would be best to mix into the clear nail polish.

the real question is...should we be taking our finish flawed instruments to furniture repair shops...or start lining them up at nail salons?

sorry...1am here, and insomnia in full effect

RicOSoundMan wrote:I have a 76' 3000 maple-glo and it has a dime sized chip out of the finish near the tail on the back with some cracking happening yet not real bad. I would still like to put a fix on it. I know a man who refinishes furniture and is interested in covering it for me but he want s to be true to the original finish. I told him of appling clear nail polish and he wanted to do a more traditional approach.

MY questions are in regards to what type may have been used say a nitro or polymer or what may have been used for that year?????

any help is appreciated

Andy

I'd be interested in seeing him try this. He may have some furniture tricks that guitar folks don't know about yet!

I'd use clear nail polish with a touch of yellow or amber. Since nail polish is basically nitro, any tint that would work in nitro would also work in nail polish, too. Doesn't have to be amber nail polish, in case that proves hard to source.