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Author:  Alex Kleon [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:21 am ]
Post subject:  Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help - Cleaned Up!
I have padauk dust staining the maple and mahogany neck laminations. How do you folks clean this, and with what? I'm pretty sure any solvent will make it worse, so maybe scrape with a razor blade? Thanks!Image

Alex


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Author:  Tim Mullin [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 9:37 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help
Compressed air.
Author:  Terence Kennedy [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 12:25 pm ]
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Yep
Author:  Alex Kleon [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:26 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help
Compressed air didn't want to get all of the padauk out, so I did a light scrape with a razor blade on the entire neck, and with a card scraper to clean the maple end grain at the base of the backstrap. After the scraping, the compressed air did the trick for the remnants. Thanks!

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Alex


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Author:  DennisK [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:35 pm ]
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:lol: Now that we can see what it's supposed to look like, that first picture looks like it has a bad sunburn.

Nice work!
Author:  SteveSmith [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 5:45 pm ]
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Nice Alex [:Y:]
Author:  Alex Kleon [ Wed Aug 17, 2016 6:22 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help - Cleaned Up!
I was planning on putting a couple of coats of blonde shellac under the finish, but now I'm not sure. I like the "white" look of the maple, and the shellac will give it some colour. I think I'll see if there are any scraps in the bits & pieces box to try first.

Alex
Author:  Clay S. [ Wed Aug 24, 2016 4:12 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help - Cleaned Up!
Sometimes sanding to a finer grit and wiping as you do so can help eliminate sanding dust discoloration.

You might need to "dust" your first coats of finish to keep the padauk from bleeding onto the maple.
Author:  Alex Kleon [ Wed Aug 24, 2016 7:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help - Cleaned Up!
I sprayed a couple of coats of shellac, sanding sealer and finish, and there was no bleeding into the maple. I was careful not to sand through the shellac!

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Alex



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Author:  Steve Kinnaird [ Wed Aug 24, 2016 10:52 pm ]
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Handsome neck! [:Y:]

Steve
Author:  DannyV [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 3:47 pm ]
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You're a brave man Charlie Brown. Don't fall into the pores. Haha. Looking great!
Author:  sdsollod [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:07 pm ]
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That's looking nice. Be sure to post photos of the whole guitar when you're done...
Author:  Alex Kleon [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:11 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help - Cleaned Up!
DannyV wrote:
You're a brave man Charlie Brown. Don't fall into the pores. Haha. Looking great!


Ha! I'm starting to have second thoughts about not pore filling the wenge back strap! Now those are PORES! :shock:

Alex
Author:  Alex Kleon [ Thu Aug 25, 2016 4:14 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Cleaning Coloured Sanding Dust - Help - Cleaned Up!
sdsollod wrote:
That's looking nice. Be sure to post photos of the whole guitar when you're done...


I will for sure, Steve. This is my first, so I'll be posting pictures for public dissection! laughing6-hehe

Alex
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