Baja Tele refinish - Finished - Pic heavy!...

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poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
edited June 2018 in Making & Modding
ok, had a bit of luck a couple of days ago when I stumbled across a baja listed on eBay as “butternut squash Telecaster”... £380 later... and it’s mine!... 

the neck is lovely but the body colour is a bit too creamy for my liking, not only that, a small dink on the body shows that the finish is almost a mm thick!...
15 minutes later with a heat gun and I now have a shed full of “butternut squash” coloured thick plastic!... oh, and a nice two piece ash Telecaster body...

Was initially going to do a butterscotch blonde finish but decided against it for two reasons 1) I’m impatient and @SteveRobinson is closed for the bank holiday (have ordered other paint tho) and 2) I’m a cheapskate and don’t want to spend the extra 30 quid on paint

so to the shed it is, and I have broken out an old jar of pickled gherkins for the base of the finish:



(Not really gherkins... it’s amber shellac)...


so the kids are elsewhere, the mrs is away for the weekend, I’m poncing around in my undercrackers and I’ve ended up with this:



A few coats of clear to go, drag it behind the car for a bit to relic it and it should great!...

Or maybe not!... I can see a couple of cans of Olympic white in its future...maybe!.
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  • djspecialistdjspecialist Frets: 901
    edited May 2018
    I'm rather partial to a natural finish Baja - here's mine:


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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    I'm rather partial to a natural finish Baja - here's mine:


    I like that a lot... mine won’t end up so pretty :)

    Im not normally a massive fan of natural guitars but I’ve seen a couple of pics of Billy Gibbons’s teles and the have swayed me a little... shall see how this turns out!...
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    I'd still want a nice blond
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    I'd still want a nice blond
    It still may go that way... it’s cleared already, will see what I think after a couple of days... the blonde can go on top of what’s there anyway!...
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  • GoldenEraGuitarsGoldenEraGuitars Frets: 8820
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    I'd still want a nice blond
    Who doesn’t ;)
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    lonestar said:
    I'd still want a nice blond
    Who doesn’t ;)
    That didn't take long
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 6636
    lonestar said:
    I'd still want a nice blond
    Who doesn’t ;)
    That didn't take long
    Said the blonde to @lonestar ....
    Karma......
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    Thoughts gents?...



    Sort of a “slutty ginger” methinks.
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    No defiantly not,  don't be lazy lol
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 12254
    I've got a black nitro highway one tele body for my build, looking at these I'm tempted to take it off!
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    edited May 2018
    No defiantly not,  don't be lazy lol
    I don’t mind it tbh... it’s not as orange in the flesh... will live with it for a bit... see what a few gigs does to the finish!....
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  • DanielsguitarsDanielsguitars Frets: 3261
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    I'll see if i change your mind when i sling my one together 
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    I'll see if i change your mind when i sling my one together 
    It still may go white blonde, I have that strat body to do and I may have enough paint to do both!... 
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    Ladies and gents... I give you...

    ”the ginger sideboardacaster”


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  • bbill335bbill335 Frets: 1368
    edited May 2018
    I like the grain on it. I would get someone to do a nice 2-tone burst on it, or mary kaye translucent white/blonde
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    bbill335 said:
    I like the grain on it. I would get someone to do a nice 2-tone burst on it, or mary kaye translucent white/blonde
    I have a couple of cans of white blond coming, so may well use some on the tele.
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  • paulnb57paulnb57 Frets: 3044
    munckee said:
    I've got a black nitro highway one tele body for my build, looking at these I'm tempted to take it off!
    Nooooooo!.....Don't do it! .....It's just starting to relic!....
    Stranger from another planet welcome to our hole - Just strap on your guitar and we'll play some rock 'n' roll

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  • lovestrat74lovestrat74 Frets: 2489
    paulnb57 said:
    munckee said:
    I've got a black nitro highway one tele body for my build, looking at these I'm tempted to take it off!
    Nooooooo!.....Don't do it! .....It's just starting to relic!....
    Probably not an ash body either so it won't have the character of this Baja 
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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 12254
    paulnb57 said:
    munckee said:
    I've got a black nitro highway one tele body for my build, looking at these I'm tempted to take it off!
    Nooooooo!.....Don't do it! .....It's just starting to relic!....
    Probably not an ash body either so it won't have the character of this Baja 
    I ultimately want a 3 tone sunburst for the tele, but thought I may go natural and then get the refinish later.  Will probably leave it as black for a while and see how I feel.  You are right it is alder and satin nitro finish so does look v good.
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  • poopotpoopot Frets: 9098
    Right... can’t live with the “ginger” any longer...



    Blonde it is!!!!!
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