Refinishing my Stratocaster
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ส.ค. 2024
- Huge thanks to Sergei for doing such a masterful job.
Sergei used a heat gun and paint scraper to remove the poly urethane paint.
After that we noticed a maple veneer on the top. we descided to remove it.
After plenty of sanding Sergei used a dark brown/red mahogany colour dye.
last of all Sergei sealed it using a satin finish lacquer of some description.
I'm thrilled with the results.
Hope you enjoy.
Sam
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As an owner of a lake placid blue strat this hurts my soul
Especially to get it done in brown, ew.
Ditto 😂😂😂
I know wtf... thumb down from me dawg.
Yeah' mine too......
Beautiful color of SHIT !!!
I'm nearly in tears as you scrape off that beautiful blue!
Ocean Turquoise is a great color!!! Cool to watch though
That blue was crap.
@@DIYTFY LOL!
I LOVED that RETRO guitar solo. Simple, good old fashioned, honest self indulgence, and somewhat virtuoso! Well Done!
Such a pleasure to watch and listen. The finish is very nice, great job of Sergei.
Great job. I love the Lake Placid Blue though. I have an LPB one myself, but it certainly looks great, and I don’t normally like wood finishes or sunburst. This looks stunning though.
Love it, definitely looks better than the blue, but to each his own, great job
On my second guitar strip and refinish.
I watched a load of stuff first before doing it. Got a heat gun, good scraper etc but the paint on both my guitars did not come off as easy as any video shows.
OK, the paint did but the crap underneath has been a beast that has required some long hours sanding back to reveal the wood.
Very satisfying at the end of it though.
I went for wood stain finish on my first and it feels amazing.
All the effort, once you are done and get to play it, really pays off in the satisfaction ranks.
Not to mention, switching out components to make it something it never was and then hearing the difference.
Great hobby, which is why I went in for a second project.
When you stained the wood did you put any finish over top afterwards? Just wondering because I'm planing to strip and stain my guitar too.
@@micahlyons5583 I haven't but not for any particular reason. Those 2 guitars are still here and as nice as I got them to be.
From one of the best and iconic color to Mr Hankey’s special strat.
Why not.
2019, and I got lost in the playing......So good Sam!!
super cool video and dang dude your playing gets more amazing every time i hear it
Robert Baker ROB!!
Beautiful color of SHIT !!!
Didn’t expect I’d see you here!
Came here for the refinishing process, left with your playing in my heart
Came out beautiful, love the finish. Kind of looks like a faded SG but in strat form! Awesome job
I thought that guitar was going to catch fire! Not the one you were stripping with the heat gun, but the one you were playing. My hats off to ya sir. Unbelievable skills.
i would maybe change the title to "my friend refinishes my guitar for me"
Came for the job, stayed for the music. Beautiful guitar, beautiful playing. :)
That's a nice look. A walnut finish looks great on a strat.
Great job! Looks so much better! Dont listen to those who say you should have left it as it was. Everyone has their own taste. Personally i think all the solid colored fenders look like toy guitars for kids. If you have something made of wood, no matter how subtle the grain, why would you cover it up! Makes no sense to me. Glad you let the beauty of the wood shine through. 👍
I preferred it when it was Metallic blue.
Beautiful color of SHIT !!!
@@kidrock9150 you still alive? Lol
Yeah well it isn’t your guitar
I know me too
I liked it better too. To each his own, I guess.
Looks incredible with that natural finish
I’m finishing up a project now and then am tackling a Strat. Looking at all the effort needed to scrape the paint off, makes me want to cry.
Looks awesome! Good job making it “yours”, I really like it, you can go buy a blue one off the rack, but this one takes hours of work to achieve. Love it!
I think the reason it “hurts” it’s because it didnt even had scratches.... i love doing weird shit to my guitars AFTER I already messed the finish and has scratches and dents :P
That is a helluva beautiful instrument. My congratulations, and I love the pickup setup!
Beautiful job! I’ve watched this video twice now.
I like seeing the process and it looks really good when you’re finished however I do have to say that I really liked the original color
Nice Job!! thats a sick improvisation over Little Wing! Respect
Great playing and great Strat makeover - love the dark wood finish. :)
beautiful the chrome, black, all together make your finished work really shine.
I personally preffered the blue, but you did a great job on the finish.
Looks great Sam. That paint stripping is so satisfying to watch!
Shaolin Oli It looks like a piece of furniture now
I like your new choice of color and you guitar playing is insane keep it up man
Maaaannn…VERY nice playing. Lot of variation, different tones, styles, shred, finger style…I’m diff in’ it! Guitar is super cool too!
Great job on finishing and great playing. Loved that you multitracked the before and after.
I have a Lake Placid Blue Stratocaster and see no reason to change it. But if I did, I'd do just what you did. I love to see wood grain in a guitar and have to say, your refin turned out great!
superb handiwork and finish bravo (and great pickin')
with the black knobs and black plate..... Perfect! Nice job Sam!
2:53 blink and you'll miss it!
Matthew Hugg ?
What a great job Man! Respect;-) specially for thé pealing that you dis really well!!! Congratulations 🎸✌😉🌞
I love the combination of wood and blue on your new banjo from the just comoleted Asia tour. Thanks for the very interesting video!
Very cool. I like that you went with the black on black hardware.
When I spoke to a Fender tech, years ago, he explained to me why they paint alot of guitars in various colours and why they make some in natural wood or in sunburst.... heres the deal so that you know why this was a bad choice for you : the guitar bodies that dont have matching wood lines, or the ones that the joints are visible, they paint them in order to look good. The ones that have nice matched woods or the joints dont show at all, they make them in natural wood colour and the ones that have visible side joints they do them in sunburst.... Fender cannot make them all perfect, nor can any other manufacturer.... the woods will bind as they please, no matter how good the workmanship is... and it is not recommended to make a one piece wood body, for abvious reasons.... also, no matter how matched the woods are, or what colour it is, the tone of the instrument is again, its own.... there you have it.... this guitar was nice and pretty in blue... now its joints are visible and to me thats ugly.... not my preference, but if you like it, so be it.... nice workmanship though... :)
yeah but his guitar looked nice bro at the end, its all subjective.
Wy it was a bad choice for him ?
Love the music: actually the guitar looks classy. Nice adventure, ignore the critics.
I love the video. The guitar playing is also wonderful!
I liked the bit where your girlfriend showed up to watch you finishing the sanding process. So sweet!
jocksterx thats actually Sam
olivier arnold No shit, Sherlock
that was a guy.
Looks like it turned out really nice for you. Really enjoyed your playing too.
second song be sounding like it’s straight out of your hometown in a pokémon game.
Everything's top quality - your playing and Sergei's job.
Looks much better than before.
this is the first heat guy finish removal on an electric guitar that didnt show any burnt areas .......damn good job !
that was too much for my eyes, i started crying
Looks awesome I think I would have went with cream pickups just for more contrast but most people probably like it with the black.
Beautiful ! I love the dark brown with the black pg ! Also, love that first song !
Some lovely Gtr playing on the sound track .. recently I did this to an old bass & had to be careful of paint fumes so I worked in a shed with air flow .. but I got stuck with electronics & a Broken truss rod in the Neck of the Bass .. oh well it was a cheap project bass so I could learn what was involved B4 trying on a more expensive instrument .. still got lots of projects in mind .. cheers for inspiration .. Bye ..
It's your guitar. If you like the result, I'm happy for you. But I would have sticked with Lake Placid Blue as it is an iconic color. Now, you have a stained 4+ unmatched pieces body.
@chrisw you realised that the original paint was a cheap polyurethane finish? Total garbage
@chrisw it looks great to me. N looking at other comments here you people just like to spew garbage on something that doesn't belong to you.
@chrisw yeah, you're the one that is calling people names, n you're need to man the fuck up
hate
Beautiful color of SHIT !!!
pleb: puts metal guitar sample from internet on the background
legend: does their OWN compositions and includes two shots
Metal Legends: do their own compositions including Guitar, bass and drums
8.5k'th like here, thank you... nice guitar work. Currently refinishing my strat too
the bach cello suite prelude was absolutely magnificent!!
I admit to ruining and devaluing a good number of solid body guitars by "refinishing" them but watching someone wreck a perfectly lovely Lake Placid Blue and replace it with a sort of poop brown was depressing.
right!?!?!
Personal preference I prefer the brown color
I agree. The original colour was much more pleasing IMO. Also I didn't like the HM pickups !
I like the brown. I like the blue also. My opinion doesn’t matter it’s not my guitar
I have a lake placid blue strat with a malpe neck..like the one Jimmy Vaughn plays... its a beautiful guitar. Your spot on with your comment!
That is some fookin sick hey joe soloing man :D
IT'S NOT HEY JOE IT'S ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER !
LoL .. Sure it is.
+TRICK-OR TREAT It's definitely Hey Joe.
HEY G.I. JOE MAYBE !
+TRICK-OR TREAT But it actually is Hey Joe?!
Nice. Really liked the last piece you played. Gid video all round boys. Cheers the noo.
What a labor of love! ♡ No short cuts here! ☆ Beautiful result, Sergio! ☆ Beautiful music, Sam!!☆
why man whyyy the original color is just beautiful
Beautiful playing!
love the brown mahogany color beautiful with a low to no gloss finish
I’m amazed how the finish comes off with heat!
Impressive work with the heat gun. It is worth noting that doing this without ending up with a few burn spots and chips takes some real skill and practice. The color coat is just the beginning too, the sealer they use is crazy thick and durable and can only be sanded off. Also, the smell from the hot poly is horrible and certainly must be toxic. Personal experience with an old cheapo Chinese Squier. lol
Hey RockYouVideos, if your squire was chinee, then it was definitely TOXIC (anything chinee for that matter)
@@guitmeister that is a bit harsh, in reality factory production was offshored from our own countries because our workers didn't want to get poisoned. There were greed issues from the factory and from the workers, so it was easier to go to another country. Also, cutting down old growth forests is boomer thinking, but traditions must stay intact! Chin up.
Don’t listen to these guys man. Just because it’s an “Iconic” blue doesn’t mean it’s not butt ugly
Better that Blue than the furniture wood look guitar
Thanks for sharing this... a great outcome!
What a fantastic result, well done....
Went from an awesome blue. To crap brown.
The blue was total shit
Garbage glittery blue rubbish.....much better now.
Legit
The end result actually looks great and more modern
You sure know how to keep your peeps entertained, mate! Great playing.
wwooww !!!!!!!! ton AVE MARIA m' a transpercé le coeur et m'a donné envie de le jouer ... c ' est magnifique .... bravo et merci ... profites bien de ce passage sur terre ... ... respects.
I was wondering why you would strip down a perfectly good Strat, but it looks great and much improved. Nice job!
love that throwback look. Talented indeed.
Mate, beautifully done!!!, congrats.
I prefer the warm brown result over the the cold blue one. Very nice
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you guys did an awsome stain job!
That was painful to watch
i dont care about the finish, ur playing is just amazing man
I feel like I hear a lot of Steve vai and John Petrucci style stuff in your playing, and I love it!
And the result is, you have a 3Piece guitar
I think it is 6 or more by looking at the grain.imo
I see at least 5 pieces and it's scandalous if you think that guitar probably costs around $1200.
Absolutely shocked to see Fender do this. $1200 for this? What a rip-off!!
that original blue was great color for strat and blouse!
sorry you ruined it!
this kind of wood is not suitable for natural finish
Not an American Strat.
Looks way better, I hate that blue finish
Vander it looks like a coffee table. Complete crap. There’s a reason the 4+ piece body was painted to begin with...
I havent seen such a beautiful Strat before. Good job!!
a beautiful work friend
I feel the Eric Johnson. Correct me if I'm wrong
Here's a tip. When you buy a guitar, buy the color you like. It's way easier.
Awesome heat process
Looks much better. Makes me want to play it. :)
Now I know why I will never repaint a guitar. Its far too much hassle, you need a lot of tools and its very time consuming.
I would rather stick with the colour it has and play it.
I'm getting ready to do this to my Strat because, I'm waaaaaay past the "Black Guitar" stage lol I've developed a fondness for stained wood guitars and I think my Maple neck and fingerboard would look great on a Brown stain that would bring out the grain in the wood. Question? It's too cold to do this outside... does the poly put off much in the way of fumes when you're doing this?
Gorgeous Re-finish and Most Excellent Playing, Dude!! Thanx 4 sharing... Peace
What a finish!! Well done that man
Stripping that awesome color is heresy
I'm planning on refinishing a guitar myself, from gloss to satin. So what I do is I heat and scrape the old paint off, sand it down, paint it matte black and then seal with clea satin laquer?
SPYDDET You got it!
+Sam Coulson Is there any way to get the old paint off without heating and scraping it off? Could you just sand it off?
+Lucifer Yes but you'd need an electric sander
+ReaCH97 Well I did it on a Precision bass ( hand sanding .. scraping with sand paper ... ) .... Well I was on holidays ... cause it takes days ... but anyway I don t care ..; I m still proud I did it that way ... I changed the pick guard for a white one and let the body in Natural wood finish with multiple satin Gloss layers ... she looks terrific !! I changed the pickups also for 2 Bartolinis -
+Laurent Malangin haha nice!
I've got bartolinis for my mim jazz bass.
I am currently going to refinish it in a nice wood stain like maple or teak and put a music man pickup in the bridge area.
also going to put active eq in it when I get more money.
Looks absolutely amazing
Very surprised to not see any burn areas from the heat gun . Good job
Nothing more boring than natural finish on a guitar, but this is great.
Love the original blue, is the best.
This dark finish looks way better than a natural finish
Says the man with the wood finish Les Paul as his background.
Manuel Martinez, same for me, and the pieces of wood don't match beautifully at the end... :-( Lake placide blue was nicer..., but everyone his own tastes...
Nah, wood stain is way prettier than some silly blue paint.
Man...the mute button is a wonderful thing.
Beautiful! If that colour was in a shop, I would buy it. Well done.
Looks like a piece of furniture now. Matches your style much better :)