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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Stevepage on August 22, 2009, 08:12:30 AM

Title: How much to get a body refinished?
Post by: Stevepage on August 22, 2009, 08:12:30 AM

I'm thinking of getting my Strats body refinished. All I want done is to have the wood dyed a certain colour, It's a natural finish 68 reissue Strat so I guess it wouldn't be too labour intensive to sand it down, dye it, then clear coat it.

How much would a luthier charge for something like this? I would do it myself, but I don't trust myself to get the clear coat right

Title: Re: How much to get a body refinished?
Post by: Jonny on August 22, 2009, 10:24:42 AM

Couple hundred maybe?

Title: Re: How much to get a body refinished?
Post by: WezV on August 22, 2009, 10:30:28 AM

give my sprayer a shout:
http://www.lennonguitars.co.uk/

it will cost extra because of stripping it down, but depending on the condition of the body and the type of finish on there he may be able to do a trans finish over the current one rather than have to strip it all back to bare wood

Title: Re: How much to get a body refinished?
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on August 22, 2009, 12:01:51 PM

£180 plus stripping - budget for £220-230