gibson sg refinishing project

[Hoffman1222]

3:03 You removed the Gibson logo!

[teddysakellaridis]

i want to refinish mine but i dont want to take the serial number off the back. how can i do this

[aNdYmAtTeR]

Looks cool!

But why does a majority of YT guitar videos start and end without hardware and electronics??? If aliens a million years from now start digging in the soil of the Earth and find a old internet computer (yeah, I know ...) they will have no idea that all those shiny and colorful slabs of wood are musical instruments. They'll more likely think it some kind of clubs or weapon used by the primitive race living on earth haha.

Why not take it from old guitar to new guitar all the way ?

[lordijokke]

ruined good guitar

[VRslashrocks]

In all the restorations and refinishes I've seen they always sand down or remove the serial number almost all the time!

[kissarmyforever100]

does anybody have an sg body or neck for sale i want to sand it down and stain it chery im only will to pay 50 fot it

[mattallica464]

@kissarmyforever100

good luck

[SuperLordofpie]

could you please tell me what you use for the clear coat and how you apply it?

if you can tell me it would be great.

cheers.

[DECIFERTHIS09]

i plan on getting this guitar in black Jackson JS32R Dinky, and staining it red burst they make it in a sunburst but when i sand it down is to going to have the same quilted look as the burst or is it just going to be plain wood

[glenmann62]

i refinished a precission bass a friend gave me , i sanded then primed ,then put 9 coats of black laquer wet sanded then added 6 coats of clear laquer,, came out awsome! added all new tuners ,electronics , babinga wood pick guard done in cherry , chrome and gold accents , custom pinstripping and added thomas edison waterslides to it!

[rockster07]

Hey, I'm doing a similar finish on my bass, and this video doesn't really explain things very well, what steps did you take after applying the burst all the way up to completing this project?

[TheRunescapeHero1]

wow you mad her beautiful

[iplayguitarhero1]

how long did you let the guitar sit after the paint was all done and over with? I have heard of people letting them sit for months to properly let the guitar dry out before installing all the electronics and such. that would drive me bananas having to wate months after re-finishing a guitar.

Good work by the way =]

[ralfcaetano]

the burst is cool but i get the impression that you didn't wet sand the guitar

[jbstuf]

@ralfcaetano if you look at 1:45 - 2:06 it shows the wet sand after the first clear coat, and 2:24 - 2:34 show the wet sand before the third clear coat.

[jbstuf]

@ralfcaetano if you look at 1:45 - 2:06 it shows the wet sand after the first clear coat, and 2:24 - 2:34 shows the wet sand before the third clear coat.

[mikeandikeswoodshop]

if you are going to such a dark burst on a nice guitar, practice first. im sorry but it turned out a bit slopy but it is decent for a first timer

[jbstuf]

@mikeandikeswoodshop thanks,but who are you? sloppy seconds? just kidden.you need to check out my other guitar build videos.

this isnt my guitar, i just did what the owner wanted me to do. i keep this video on here cuz i think its funny everbody hates it so much.and i never did get to see the thing finished.

[EHXGUY]

I can't believe why anyone would do this.

[TheRocklife13]

did u remove the brand to? o.o

[sweetlikeADAM]

I'm sorry, but that looks bad.

[CubeableGame]

How do I reach that particular color on 0:04. Can I just use power the sand to remove the finish or it's also something else you use? I want to apply this finish to my old Squier P Bass, make some vintage sratches and eventually turning it into Relic.

[jbstuf]

@CubeableGame at 0:04? thats what the guitatr looked like before i started.samebody had striped it down to the mahogany and badly applied a clear coat finish with a brush.

[CubeableGame]

My goal is the original mahogany color in a bit darker tone. (And then apply a varnish to protect the instument from moisture.) Ι don't know how to describe it, but generally similar (not the same) as your guitar in 0:04. Could you recommend me some tools for this work?

[AROHAWESLEY]

what about the song name??

[jimmyboo5]

it hurts to see this

[everyonedoesit420]

if you look at the beginning the horns are sharp and to a point,most likely the extra finishing and coats and whatnot are what made it look round,however if thats is the case it will be overcoated wich can fuck up the wood and ruin the sound,so itll seem like a gibson copy in any way that it plays out,and one more thing,what dumbass refinishes such a beautiful guitar.I scoff at this.

[Nineball190]

it looks like a copy SG, the upper horn is too round.

[dreasxd]

you had a cool vintage gibson sg, but you wanned to make it look like crap

[TheJuicer1414]

whats the name of this song?? please respond

[deronofcky1]

music suck but great job!! I give you 5 stars

[TheDangerpanda]

fake gibson you can tell by the head stock

[deemilieu]

nope. it's authentic.

[telecasterbear]

give me a maple neck anytime. i have owned and now own gibsons and fenders. with the headstock angle and the softness of mohogany, its just asking for trouble. headstocks snapping like this one. give me a maple neck les paul deluxe please.

[jamesgarvey12345]

ow did you spray the guitar without the metal pasts being at risk?

[deemilieu]

the part where you pry out the posts was skipped over.

[KilluhSoda]

In the beginning this guitar looks like it came over on the mayflower...

[ilovecortbass]

great end product!

(gay ass song theme song)

[jbstuf]

thanx

yeah, i had to replace the song becouse of copy right

[cheezbeenzriz]

@jbstuf Dude can you do a tutorial on how to paint a guitar TV Yellow I want to paint an SG that color. Yo can buy the paint at reranch.com

[mikeytheskinhead]

nice sg..

[alexis221woodworks]

nice...love gibson

[reagensmate]

dude how could u let a GIBSON SG look so terrible even after all thet work it didnt look much better

[jbstuf]

not my guitar!!!! i was paid to do the job,this guitar was in real bad shape before i started working on it.the factory finish had been taken off by power sanding,then a very bad coat of clear full of brush marks and drips.i never did get to see the guitar completed or meet the guy who owns it. it was one of those,threw a friend of a friend deals.

[okie294life]

I'm glad you got your hands on an old gibson, it'll never be the same now, but it looked like in horrible shape before. One thing you probably did without even know about that made this thing worthless though....if it wasn't done before...never grind off the serial # even a badly abused instrument is worth something if it can be traced.....no matter what kinda paint it has man.

[Prostheta]

Bleh. No grain filling, plus that "tobacco burst" looks very dark and opaque.

[gregory1138]

what a sin!!! that poor piece of mahogony..u dont deserve it!!

[music2356]

should have left it with the sealer just laquer 1 coat

[trousien]

yeah that missing logo is a bummer

[cheesespin]

transfers are pretty easy to get hold of tho.

[XCortGuitarX]

The guitar needed it, I don't care how much you think character is, This guitar needed a lot of work. Good job, it looks better now. But you should have put painters tape over the gibson lable, and work around it.

[ortidpi]

big mistake to send,you took off all the patina,and dont know why u didnt keep the GIBSON logo,....big mistake.A professional doesnt work like this....

[llauer76]

you shouldve left it with just the two coats of sealer... it looked all beat and really badass,

[jordog12]

i love gibson sg's so freakin much there pretty much the perfect guitar!!!

[Banetics]

very nice work. but in would not have the gibson logo over painted.

everything else looks great.

ps.: what song is playing during the video ?

[jbstuf]

not sure what song that is.i had to switch the audio becouse of copyright.i just picked a youtube copyright free song.

[haha1lildreamer]

its by the plain white t's....the guys that did hey there delilah

[llauer76]

next time try a smal layer or really thin red right between the natural mohogany and black

its easier to put the red on under the black coat

just a small 3-6mm overlay of the red should be showing

it makes the transition into natural alot less sudden and broad.

great work though

[HackerGuitarist]

actually gibson puts a layer of clear laquer between each color ,,it will never look authentic unless you do this(also you can wipe a color if you screw up)

[otothefuck]

the burst was a mistake...looks really crappy becouse of it

[gunmanvb2]

age= charicter

[melonheed3]

looks like shit....

[chovixnator017]

LOL

[crackspider7]

very nice result, but i would never refinish such an old guitar, i love fucked-up finishes!

[blackyesterday85]

he said someone done a bad job re-finishing it so he had no choice, the other guy screwed up not him but i agree

[greenxgreenman]

that is what my grandpa said!

he said that a guitar is like a samurai sword. Every scratches are like memories

[distotedyouth]

@crackspider7 it gives guitars character

[twoboots4you]

I like the way it was, better. also did you repaint the front of the head stock, whilst also covering up GIBSON?

[ACDCangus101]

what kind of paint did you use?

[Lukeyboi14]

i dont like the tobacco finnish on an sg, probs look better on a strat

[Ewing5150]

howd you do the black edge for the sunburst man? looks hard. =P

[tkojams]

If it were me I would have taped off the name and headstock inlay, let dry , remove the tape then clearcoated the headstock to even out the layers. If it's a Gibson, it should say so. But hey that's just me

[reap62]

you should have done some design on the back of the neck with painters tape but the overall guitar came out beautiful

[DoctorWhoLord123]

i dont like tobbaco colour

[evanescence345]

u shoudilve kept it like that. people pay alot! to get that aged look.

[MaryMcContrary]

Great visuals, thanks for posting. I wish you'd explain how to get that "burst" effect.

[Gibson66Custom]

can you tell me or show me in a video how you created the burst, I have a japanese import crap les paul and I want to give it a vintage sunburst for that classic look

[nickelrejects]

dont polish a turd

[ahvaimusicom]

that looks stellar man!

[MetallicGod07]

Very cool man! It looks great!

[zbarneyz]

thats fucked up, you cant just leave the tree in the middle like that you must coat it an darken a few times first,,,,that just looks stupid

[jbstuf]

this was a job i did for sombody els,thats what they asked for.i dont really like doing refinishing jobs but this guitar was in very bad shape before i touched it.