Post by davidhanners on Nov 24, 2007 18:10:49 GMT -5
For those of you familiar with the saga of the Epiphone AJ-45 I ordered this summer from @#$%*!Musicians @#$%*!Friend, I thought an update might be in order. As I mentioned in my last post on the subject, the guitar had a finish on it that was glossy beyond belief. It was a thick covering of whatever they're using in Indonesia (or wherever) right now, and all I know is if they'd preserved King Tut in this stuff, he'd still look like he just died yesterday. I was looking for some way to tone it down and/or age or "relic" it. (Although I hate using "relic" as a verb....)
Anyhoo.... After reading of my lament about its uber-gloss, our own Marty, who holds court in the basement of The Podium in Minneapolis, suggested I bring it in to see what could be done about it. So a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Hammond and myself motored to the Podium on our lunch hour (we work a couple of blocks from each other) and dropped the thing off. I got it back yesterday and boy howdy, what a different guitar it is. It looks great.
Marty was able to sand through the gloss and then re-polish it so it now looks like it has a nice varnish finish. It looks very good indeed.
The next step, according to Marty, is to install an ivory nut to warm up the sound a bit, but that'll have to wait until I have more money. I like the sound of the guitar now -- to me, it definitely has that slope-shoulder "chunk" that I was looking for -- but I'm sure there'll come a time when some money is burning a hole in my pocket and it'll say, "Get that ivory nut installed...."
Anyhoo.... After reading of my lament about its uber-gloss, our own Marty, who holds court in the basement of The Podium in Minneapolis, suggested I bring it in to see what could be done about it. So a couple of weeks ago, Mr. Hammond and myself motored to the Podium on our lunch hour (we work a couple of blocks from each other) and dropped the thing off. I got it back yesterday and boy howdy, what a different guitar it is. It looks great.
Marty was able to sand through the gloss and then re-polish it so it now looks like it has a nice varnish finish. It looks very good indeed.
The next step, according to Marty, is to install an ivory nut to warm up the sound a bit, but that'll have to wait until I have more money. I like the sound of the guitar now -- to me, it definitely has that slope-shoulder "chunk" that I was looking for -- but I'm sure there'll come a time when some money is burning a hole in my pocket and it'll say, "Get that ivory nut installed...."
