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Paul Reed Smith Interview: PRS Talks About Guitar Finish
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Paul Reed Smith speaks with Music Store Live about the guitar finish, the various compositions available and how they effect the instrument. We talk nitrocellulose lacquer, coconut based binding agents, paint, plasticizers, non-drying oils and more. We hope you find this interview informative and interesting and please subscribe for more great videos like this.
Paul always seems to get a little defensive about the finishes on his guitars
Well, coming from "another industry", I can honestly testify that modern high quality (durability + flexibility grades) polyurethane paint and finish compounds can and will dry hard as glass (so to speak) depending on the compound you choose. Obviously, there are differences in quality among all manufactured products sold as polyurethane paints and finishes, and, just as epoxy glues, these differences in quality always come with a difference in prices.
You can choose between compounds which will cure and become hard as glass with the counterpart of also being brittle and prone to damage on relatively light impacts, but the advantage of being extremely resistant to erosion (scratches, etc), or compounds which will cure and have a certain amount of elasticity while retaining a great amount of resistance to erosion and contamination.
Your a manufacturer and want to finish a high quality expensive line of guitars, you'll choose a high quality polyurethane which will cure to become hard as glass, and that's it.
Now, I also have guitars ... a lot of guitars ... all my Gibson guitars (which all have nitrocellulose finishes) are all over 10 years old and already look like SH*T. The Goldtop Les Paul already has "cracks" on its top ... and my guitars stay in a room where temperature and humidity is controlled, and all this happens on these Gibson guitars although I take very good care of my guitars, using the best products "SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR GUITARS" like nitrocellulose care products, etc.
Well, for instance, my MIJ Ibanez guitars still sound and work perfectly, and also look like new (except for the de-coloration on Gold parts), the reason being that they're finished with polyurethane paints and finishes.
This discussion about polyurethane vs nitrocellulose sounds like "fart smelling contest" to me ... now, you want a guitar that will quickly have a "worn off" look, choose nitrocellulose, you want a guitar with a finish that will hardly wear off, choose polyurethane. And that's pretty much everything you need to know about the subject 'cause you can make a "glass-hard" polyurethane finish just as hard and thin as you want nowadays.
man.. what years are the non-nitro PRS guitars so I can get those?
Cool
...so.....did he answer the question......?
What does he mean he doesn't think weather checking is a bad thing? I'm confused...
Checking as in checked finish, referring to the finish being damaged buy wear and the environment. I agree, it's charming to have some wear on guitars, telling the history of the instrument and the habits of the player.
I don't understand why mid range Fender needs to look super clean and new with their poly finishes, when they sell custom shop guitars that are with relic'd nitro finishes to look old.
And more importantly, it doesn't affect the tone, so sacrificing the new appearance for fewer non-drying bonders allows the instrument to vibrate more freely.
Magic finish. Ha ha.
PRS finishes are the worst - they never admit it but your $10,000 blue guitar will be brown in 4 years
Hmmm, I actually think there is something about their finishes that make the guitar sound dead unplugged.
@@landajimmy geeze idk what guitar you picked up but my PRSs are the loudest dang guitars I own. I have several Strats and a lespaul that aren’t as loud unplugged