Fixing Scratches

[Mr Craig Olive]

Hi does anyone out there have any advice on using thinners to restore scratches on a guitar? I'm familiar with antique restores using a shellac restorer to reconstitute a finish is it possible to do the same with Nitrocellulose?

Thanks in advance

[Carl Dickinson]

There was a video over on StewMac where Dan E. resprayed a few new coats of Nitro on an old nitro finish. If I recall he had a first coat that was a high percentage of retarder and thinner. Sorry I can't recall the ratio. I tried it on the back of my '72 Gibson Gospel and it worked great.

Nitro is very forgiving. New nitro melts into old pretty easily.

[Mr Craig Olive]

Thanks so much this sounds like the very answer I was looking for : )

Cheers 

[wood addict]

i believe instead of thinner it was butly cellusolve or butly cellulose? they used to sell it at LMI.

[Mr Craig Olive]

I've just tried it with GP thinners and seemed to work well, thanks : )

[Mr Craig Olive]

I've just tried this and I'm  happy with the result thanks so much : )

[Mike Kolb]

For years I've been using Mohawk "Blush Eraser" for touching-up cloudy steam damage after removing necks for resets.

I see where "Blush Eraser" per se has been replaced by "No-Blush Plus Retarder" but I'm pretty sure it's basically the same product, renamed...  and it works real well.

[Mr Craig Olive]

Hey Mike thanks for the handy tip : )