How Do You Remove A Guitars Paint Job?
Removing the paint from a guitar is a slow, painstaking process. Plan on taking an entire day to strip the paint away from a guitar’s body, and do not rush any step of the process. If you rush the job, you can end up with a guitar with unintentional ridges and indentations, which will ruin the look. Unscrew and remove the bridge, pickups, saddle, switches and knobs and other hardware. Remove the neck from the guitar. You should have only the guitar’s body to work on. Put on a particle mask to avoid breathing in paint dust. Alternately, sand your guitar outside where the dust can blow away. Lightly sand the guitar body with a palm sander with a 50- or 60-grit paper until the wood starts to come through. Tilt the guitar down to let paint dust fall off and use an air compressor or hair dryer to blow dust off the palm sander when it builds up. Wrap 50- or 60-grit sandpaper around a piece of dowel to sand down the horn and any other curved areas you can’t access with the palm sander. Blow a
