DarthTangYang
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Hello!
I hope this is the right place for a post like this. Since I don't own a Gibson but an Epiphone this looked like the best place for my questions.
I have a black Epiphone Les Paul Studio from 2001 (Korean made) and I'm in the process of upgrading pots and pickups. And while I have it dismantled I figured I might also try and fix all those very fine scratches and swirls in the finish (polyurethane) that has been accumulated over the years. I'm just not sure how. I've looked around on YouTube and different websites and people seem to use a buffing wheel and some kind of buffing compound for this. I'm just not sure what kind of buffing wheel I should get. Are there like different "grits" for buffing wheels and if so which should I look for? And what kind of buffing compound? I don't want to mess up the finish more than it already is. To be clear, the scratches are not deep but super fine and basically everywhere on the body.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I hope this is the right place for a post like this. Since I don't own a Gibson but an Epiphone this looked like the best place for my questions.
I have a black Epiphone Les Paul Studio from 2001 (Korean made) and I'm in the process of upgrading pots and pickups. And while I have it dismantled I figured I might also try and fix all those very fine scratches and swirls in the finish (polyurethane) that has been accumulated over the years. I'm just not sure how. I've looked around on YouTube and different websites and people seem to use a buffing wheel and some kind of buffing compound for this. I'm just not sure what kind of buffing wheel I should get. Are there like different "grits" for buffing wheels and if so which should I look for? And what kind of buffing compound? I don't want to mess up the finish more than it already is. To be clear, the scratches are not deep but super fine and basically everywhere on the body.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.