Stripping a Mexican Fender

[korby]

Does this work ?

[buckwild]

it does, but it's still a pain in the ass...in my opinion you are better off spending a little extra and getting a light body from Warmoth, MJT, or USACG, and starting the finish from scratch. A lot of times the fender Mexico bodies are multi piece and heavy.

[Wesman61]

I don't know but it cracked me up to watch.

[korby]

This is the culprit 8lbs , acoustically loud , hideous color .

[blood5150]

Originally Posted by korby

This is the culprit 8lbs , acoustically loud , hideous color .

i like it.. just get a black pickguard, black knobs, pickup covers, etc....

[pfflam]

Originally Posted by korby

This is the culprit 8lbs , acoustically loud , hideous color .

a Heat gun works fine . . . but be prepared to fill in spots with wood putty and you'll need to sand - you also might not like what you see under there -

I had a Wine colored MIM Tele and it was made of several hunks of unknown wood . . . but, it ended up being one of my favorites and looks like this now:

[JTJ]

Im not sure which guitars have what finishes but i have redone quite a few in nitro and have always stripped them with a heat gun and dulled scraper. The Jazzmasters seem to have a poly based paint and are a little more pain, but all the strats and teles are urethane and it comes of in big pieces with a heat gun, just set it low and try not to melt it, just heat it up til it starts lifting

[dangeroso]

Looks like he was gouging the wood with that screwdriver near the neck joint in the last vid.

[germs]

yeah, but it STILL doesn't get the fullerplast off.

[Wake911]

i had a poly coated fender, and used a palm sander to remove all the paint. Worked great. Only tough part was the horns, since palm sander doesn't fit there. Had to use sandpaper on a dowel rod to sand it all off, worked great, repainted 2 of them that way, and i can't blame the poor paintjob on the sanding, only on my lack of patience on waiting between coats and wet sanding at the end.