Nobody_G13
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I thought I'd make a thread documenting my road to a poor man's burst..(warning will be pic heavy)
It started with a $249.00 usd purchase of a 2008 GrassRoots GLP-60S..
I decided to make my own burst with the idea of keeping it under $600 usd completed ..
Sooo our journey starts with binding scraping on an already finished guitar ? I'm super crazy, I know..
With the guitar being sub $600 and from China I expected a thick poly finish and was super hesitant to do the scraping..
If I make a mistake, I wouldn't be able to afford another one, and this is my only guitar..
Sooo I clinched my cheeks and gave it a go, and to my surprise it's an extremely thin finish and it only took 3 gentle passes with a razor blade to get completely through the finish to the binding, and it left almost no ridge... I pressed forward and scraped the rest of the binding,I didn't expect a massive change in appearance, but boy was I wrong!!! The whole guitar just looked better and it began to have a look of craftsmanship to it..
After scraping I did a light buff and you can't even tell that the scraping was done at all ?
As funds allow and I'm able to purchase part's I'll keep this thread updated...
*I've uploaded the pictures in order to show progress*![20230923_190528_kindlephoto-67236325.jpg 20230923_190528_kindlephoto-67236325.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16807-7c3806b36118824b3fda104e4b3ad46d.jpg?hash=fDgGs2EYgk)
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It started with a $249.00 usd purchase of a 2008 GrassRoots GLP-60S..
I decided to make my own burst with the idea of keeping it under $600 usd completed ..
Sooo our journey starts with binding scraping on an already finished guitar ? I'm super crazy, I know..
With the guitar being sub $600 and from China I expected a thick poly finish and was super hesitant to do the scraping..
If I make a mistake, I wouldn't be able to afford another one, and this is my only guitar..
Sooo I clinched my cheeks and gave it a go, and to my surprise it's an extremely thin finish and it only took 3 gentle passes with a razor blade to get completely through the finish to the binding, and it left almost no ridge... I pressed forward and scraped the rest of the binding,I didn't expect a massive change in appearance, but boy was I wrong!!! The whole guitar just looked better and it began to have a look of craftsmanship to it..
After scraping I did a light buff and you can't even tell that the scraping was done at all ?
As funds allow and I'm able to purchase part's I'll keep this thread updated...
*I've uploaded the pictures in order to show progress*
![20230923_190528_kindlephoto-67236325.jpg 20230923_190528_kindlephoto-67236325.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16807-7c3806b36118824b3fda104e4b3ad46d.jpg?hash=fDgGs2EYgk)
![20230923_190934_kindlephoto-67356929.jpg 20230923_190934_kindlephoto-67356929.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16808-61be883621ef76974a41e8610d9e7db9.jpg?hash=Yb6INiHvdp)
![20230925_004107_kindlephoto-157576516.jpg 20230925_004107_kindlephoto-157576516.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16809-379581e413b842f89126af0a444474bc.jpg?hash=N5WB5BO4Qv)
![20230925_004100_kindlephoto-157659209.jpg 20230925_004100_kindlephoto-157659209.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16810-c3fbc92abd4cac0bf834dc3110f36291.jpg?hash=w_vJKr1MrA)
![20230925_012134_kindlephoto-157623199.jpg 20230925_012134_kindlephoto-157623199.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16811-859fd32695550155728ce8ec19379aca.jpg?hash=hZ_TJpVVAV)
![20230925_012055_kindlephoto-157689442.jpg 20230925_012055_kindlephoto-157689442.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16812-7c5be1b167431e7197e5f25e90a32079.jpg?hash=fFvhsWdDHn)
![20230925_012112_kindlephoto-157530834.jpg 20230925_012112_kindlephoto-157530834.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16813-21a21e2ed844f45df3bf81021ab96712.jpg?hash=IaIeLthE9F)
![20230925_025306_kindlephoto-157498465.jpg 20230925_025306_kindlephoto-157498465.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16814-e0676ec0e9d6edb2aaaad5530ded7aac.jpg?hash=4GduwOnW7b)
![20230925_024332_kindlephoto-157420604.jpg 20230925_024332_kindlephoto-157420604.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16815-ee750ee02ecd9d776d28f32dc44bf066.jpg?hash=7nUO4C7NnX)
![20230925_024310_kindlephoto-158773638.jpg 20230925_024310_kindlephoto-158773638.jpg](https://www.lespaulforum.com/data/attachments/16/16816-f4afacf9fe6616fa90106b444f82831f.jpg?hash=9K-s-f5mFv)