2015 Gibson SG Std "Emergency" Finish Chip Repair
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- čas přidán 14. 03. 2016
- My cousin's brother in-law is here from out of town and had some enexpected damage. I did the best I could and it turned out okay. But I'm always disapppointed when it's not perfect.
- Hudba
Hey, don't beat yourself up, you did your best and at least you didn't make it worse. It came out better than I thought it would originally. Good job!
True, either live with dings and scratches or have the dam thing refinished. Dings and scratches are a part of life...I guess..
i am impressed,you are starting to do some great work with very little,awesome job mate!!
Sitting in the case it looks perfect I think you did a great job. 👍
Beautiful repair job that you should be proud of.
Sometimes it's next to impossible to get invisible, you did a great job mate! It looks much better!
+Randy Schartiger Thanks man.. :-)
Great job! don't listen to all the people telling you how they would've done it or how they wouldn't have let you touch their guitar. I don't see them putting it out there on CZcams! Nice Job! Especially for a free repair. Keep up the great videos!
Damn. Such a beautiful SG.
Great job, dude
That's a tough one. I think you did a pretty good job on it.
Nice job. You could hardly tell it was there from a distance. It was good you had the paint chips.
I had the same problem, I used a DuPont Pro Fusion Scratch repair stick as sort of a glue and than put the chip piece over the chip and let it dry than rubbed the stick over the chip to fill in around the chip and let it dry and than buffed with Meguirar's Ultimate compound, the results were better than expected.
this is why my 90 Peavey Destiny was locked away in its bulletproof case until my kids were older... looks good for what you had to do :)
Dings and chips will ALWAYS happen sooner or later. Especially with nitro finishes. Best thing is to just leave them. After a few they just add to the character and individuality of your instrument. The first ding hurts though!
I am assuming that was an Epiphone with a Poly finish. You can buy black CrazyGlue from StewMac and do a shallow drop fill to partially fill the chip, followed by drop filling with clear CrazyGlue followed by a wet sand and hand buff for a flawless repair. The CrazyGlue melts into the existing finish and leaves no "ring". If that was a Gibson, lacquer is best to touch up a lacquer finish. Same thing, shallow fill with black lacquer and then drop filling with clear lacquer just to slight over fill followed by wet sanding and buffing. Do not use CrazyGlue on a lacquer finish or vice versa as they will leave a "transition ring" you cannot hide. Also, CrazyGlue dries so hard that when used on lacquer, you will literally sand a "divot" in the surrounding softer lacquer while trying to level the CrazyGlue.
It was a Gibson.
Dude that was a great job. The disappointing thing here is the guy let his new SG in the same room as small children. Nothing good can come of that.
Fitting how the voices of future fedex ups and baggage handlers can be heard in the background 😮
Brand new guitar & household with children..........it is what it is. Too bad, but like you said man.......pretty good fix on the cheap. And nobody can complain about that. And you threw in a free setup as well......Woodeso guitar mods is where it's at!! Good video
I'll tell ya what makes your heart stop! I just bought a SG today with a broken headstock and cracked neck! Wish me luck in the repairs! 🤧
Bottom line, you don't know what you're doing!
Is that a nitro finish? Could drop-fill the damage with nitro, surely?
Yup...when I saw him gluing the original paint chips back in I was wondering the same. Why not just a basic drop fill repair?
"Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose" a pretty cavalier attitude toward someone else's brand new guitar. That was not a difficult repair and offering to do it for free when you question the results (or in this case expecting the results to be below 100%) is an offer that should not have been made.
As one can see right here on CZcams, there are better and more complete methods offered which result in a 100% fix. Besides, as has been pointed out, there are folk that do this work and it is not an expensive repair.
Joe Heasley there’s nothing wrong with being honest and upfront about the quality of the repair. This is a guy doing repair in his house, not Stewmac. He did the best with what he had and it looks good from a short distance.
Which are these methods? Can you post here any links? I would apprecciate very much
@@sinjon That's no excuse. I do guitar builds and repairs in my basement and I never would've let that leave my house. Bad repair, bad attitude.
Pretty damn good job :)
Great job ,drop filling with colored lacquer would have been my choice but this worked out I guess ,was the customer pleased or did they have that look on their face?
I seen a stew mac do the same repair. it came out well. they fine sanded it threw the higher grits to polish it. the owner can do it no big deal. then use a compound.
Looks good to me!!! Free and fixed , good job , the case shot tells how good you are , when was the last time-you were playing to any one closer than that ???
Sometimes a couple drips of clear, then a sand and buff make them harder to see, but man... That's a ton of work. You made it 1000x better than it was.
Why didn't you show the repair detail ? How will I know if my repairs compare to yours if there's no visual. Did you wet sand to 3000 then use polishing compound to shine her back up ?
My friends Epiphone SG fell off the stand one time, and when it landed, the top corner of the body hit something laying on the floor, and it took off the paint and part of the wood, it's still like that too.
+Peculiarsafe83 Yeah this sort of thing sucks big time.. Especially something brand new:-(
So, no chance about having a video on how to repair the scratch?
I would have done some wipe on poly clear coat instead of the super glue for the fill, then wet sanded and polished but you did a good job regardless.
If that's a Gibson it's a lacquer finish and could have easily been repaired with lacquer based products and never seen again. Too bad.
If its a Gibson (which it is) it is a Nitrocellulose Lacquer Finish - Simply saying lacquer does more harm than good for any readers of your comment, what if they mistakenly buy Acrylic or Catalyzed Lacquer because they have read your comment? Moreover, I have used Nitrocellulose Lacquer Clear to do drop fills, it is an extremely long process.. Nitrocellulose takes at least 3 days to harden and by this point it has mostly evaporated away and you have to repeat the process to build it up, if it is thinned incorrectly it can also damage the surrounding paint causing a a Halo. Super Glue is a fantastic way to level the finish quickly and to drastically reduce the Halo effect.. Taking the time to make sanding strips and making FLAT sanding blocks or using a clear sanding block made from Clear Acrylic Plastic with Stick On Paper (so you can see where your sanding) is extremely helpful also. This man has taken the time to show you a process that some may find useful; I am sure he will perfect his techniques in time, but putting him down doesn't help anyone.
Would putting some black ink in the glue not have made that invisible ?
There is a great video of Dan Erliwine doing a drop fill of a blue acoustic guitar and when he was finished you couldnt even tell there was ever a chip. Coincidentally enough if you do a search for the title of this video, that very video comes up I think the 3rd video down. I don't normally write anything negative because that's just me, that being said, I kind of figured there would be some critical opinions posted. Once the "Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose" came out I was like, "that's not going to sit well with the CZcams audience"
Really nice work.
awww, you made it pretty
perfecto.
Awesome job man!!!
this would have been a good candidate for a drop fill even if you weren't able to keep the little chips that fell off. too bad we didnt take a good look at the final repair
The same thing happened to the edge of my Firebird. Except, i have no idea how. Only thing i can think is it bumped up against another guitar when i was taking it out of my 6 in line stand. Annoying, especially on black
Sorry for the owner. I personally would be pissed.
I see alot of people using super glue to level it, add a bit of very thin paint so it spreads nice, and over that another pile of glue, then level it wil a razor blade with tape on the left and right side, so only the middle exposed, and then sand it and polish.
the big thing about this , I noticed is , you have the same carpet as me , in my back room ....
Gives it character I'd keep it some people are so boring it doesn't change the sound
I like your attitude about it.
How did I miss this one ? That was a great repair Nelson. I’ve seen some bad ones in guitars for sale professing to be “professional” does he still have the SG ?
Not a bad repair...I wouldn't have not used the ebony stain, unless the chips were not complete..and I would recommend putting the glue on toothpick, instead of straight from the bottle, and always be sure to scar the area a little, so the glue can adhere better to the chips
If you just use a sharpie i feel your not smoothing it out.How about adding filler putty smooth it out tape it off and then touch it up. Then when you put your hand over it its smooth and not rough.
Looks good to me. Let us know in the next video what the owner said.
Can the crack affect the sound of your guitar?
It depends on how severe but usually no
Bottom line, you do know what you're doing!
Not a bad touch up job for an amateur. A real pro could have made it completely disappear, even without the chips. Guys with that skill are called "touch up men." They are usually employed by furniture companies or companies which sell pianos. Furniture gets dinged up for various reasons . Those guys can make a ding invisible. Mohawk-Finishing carries a complete line of specialty items made for the express purpose of making dings like that disappear. Takes a lot of practice but someone who knows how can make damage much worse than that go away.
Glen Hansen I agree 100% I would have never left this guy ahold of my SG...
Nice work, really. That was a pretty bad ding. Without the benefit of commentary it's hard to tell what grit you went to and what you used. I found I get great results after wet sanding using micro mesh up to 12000 and then hitting the repair with some MaGuires Scratch-X.
Why not use the clone tool in Photoshop? Actually the patch pool would be better.
It takes time..you have to build above the finish in order to decrees to leveling..by that time your on 12000grt and a compound rubbing..its a $225.00 to $350.00 ticket..The longer you take the better it gets!!
Slap a SILVERCHAIR sticker over it....IN TRUE EMO FASHION
nice job.
2:05 minwax ouch, cringe.
The golden rule if a finisher can't see it from a foot away neither will anyone else
nice job on the touch up
Easy fix if you know what your doing if not take it to a recommended guitar tech.
Small dents means the thing is actually being played. Hang it on the wall if you don't want them dinged up.
Hate it when that happens. Bloody shame bro, but hey... Call it a battle scar... 😐. The SG still rocks! 😎
Sharpie's don't turn maroon anymore. Just added Nitro over some this morning, still black.
Is it still black now?
That could have been repaired. A guitar like that deserves better.
Pretty average condition guitar in any case if this was brand new. Would imagine it’s going to have a hell of a life and be a classic road worn beater if today’s condition is anything to go by. Good garage repair if that’s the standard you set yourself!
If those were my kids, they would never see the day light.........
just kidding but that really does suck
How much would you say those chips depreciate the value of the guitar?
Almost not at all!
why ask that question?
Drop fill with color tinting (and skip putting the pieces back in) would have been the right call.
ever heard of a pipette?
Or a toothpick
black sharpie... call it a day lol
Jesus H. Christ - PLEASE STAY AWAY FROM GUITARS.
easy fix.. black permanent marker pen first. fill up with levels of C.A untill its higher than the body. use flat block for sanding . with 2000 wet and dry sand till all planes match then buff out with sponge on drill and meguires polish compound... look like new. guarantee it.
Talk about make your hear stop I did that to my PRS custom24 artist package..... my SG looks like it's from the 40s because it's my bitch guitar. I care less how it looks I just play it. It's alright after some mods. But, wasn't so great from the factory.
Nice video for an "emergency" repair. Good effort. But I believe that it could be fixed much better than that with more time and no a total refinish is required. Not at all. I am sure that is a nitro lacquer finish so it is an evaporative finish that will melt the edges of the chip and seal the demarcation. Very simple to color a small supply of lacquer black with a commercial stain like ebony TransTiint. Then drop fill the chip hole (with or with out the two pieces) with the black lacquer until it builds up over the surrounding surface (make a plateau over the chip) and finish off like you did. Scrape flat and then polish with micro mesh until it buffs out. Never see it when you're done.
Mandolin1944 that is definitely not nitro. It's polyurethane 100 percent
Bruh, yur hand shakes like a Clinton under oath.
And then there is also a trick to buff the wood back out by steaming it with a damp cloth and an iron, only works with dents.
Man I know I'm late to the party here but we have to stop guitar deity as some sort of demi form It's an instrument and test shit is gonna happen to it, usually by accident but that some guitar is not going to sound any different or play any different it's a chunk of wood with some paint pots pups hardware etc. But guess what it's still an amazing guitar and if someone is doing you a favour and try fixing a blemish let's get over it nobody died here and sure I get that it sucks but that's life no pain no gain. Nothing here lasts forever. even skin and bone is just a rental.
Third
The guitar could've been repaired properly for about 200 dollars. It would be worth it to me if it was mine. But you did a decent job for sure.
You should take this shitty repair job off CZcams before someone tries to replicate it.
WTF?! Try cleaning and prepping first? Don’t think it would’ve made to much of a difference with this technique anyways. Looked flawed from the start. My 15 year old son could’ve done a better job with his boogers.
too wordy and dramatic.... just show how to fix it. I gave up immediately from boredom
dont stink