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Stripping Polyshades off Tweed

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1/30/2004 1:46 AM

Stripping Polyshades off Tweed

Hey Guys,

I have a 5E3, and I'm curious if anyone has
successfully stripped poly off tweed with good
results. I used the Polyshades Honey Pine
and I don't like the look of it. Wondering if
I'm better off living with it than stripping it
and having it look worse! What do you think my
chances are of getting it to look new? I'd
appreciate any horror stories, etc. and some advice on stripper that will do the job.

1/30/2004 4:39 PM

Bruce /Mission Amps

Did you mix the polyshade with mineral spirits to thin it down before application or apply it straight out of the can?
Although I like the honeypine color when thinned down, I also have moved away from the MINIWAX Polyshade to three coats of good old lightly tinted Lacquer!!
Scott W. here stripped his poly off, and maybe after reading this thread he can explain how he did it and why it might be better to sell the cab off and buy a new one from the many suppliers out there!
ha ha...

Bruce

1/30/2004 5:26 PM
Owen	Thanks for the reply Bruce. Yeah, I thinned it down with mineral spirits. It doesn't look really bad, I just wish I had finished it in clear lacquer. I guess I'm just not even sure it is worth it to sell it off, or to strip it. I just wanted to know if anyone had stripped one, and what the results were, thought maybe I'd give it a whack.

1/30/2004 9:34 PM

Bruce remembers right. I had done my 5e3 cab in Minwax Polyshades Honey Pine. I had put a couple of coats on - thinned with mineral spirits. I then thought I wanted a little deeper color so I put a few more coats on without thinning. That's when the nightmares began.

After the last coat, I put the cab outside on my patio, around dusk. When I came to check on it about an hour later, there were hundreds of black specks on it. I got closer and found that the cab had turned into a gnat magnet! Hundreds of little gnat bodies stuck to the still sticky polyshades, encased in amber. If that wasn't bad enough, my work sucked cuz the finish turned out too thick - sorta like a caramel apple. The finish was a thick coat on top of the tweed, instead of being absorbed into the tweed.

It needed to come off quick. I didn't think a stripper would be safe on the tweed so - get this - I scraped off the finish with some dental tools. Some pieces came of like taking Levis size labels off new jeans. Most of the finish came of in *tiny* pieces, requiring several hours of work. Please don't follow my example!

The cab came out OK, sorta looking like I first got it, but a little scuffed up here and there. I saw Bruce's new *finished* cabs at his shop - they looked great - so when I bought my new auxillary cab, I also bought a new 5e3 cab that's identically matched. They look great together.

I still have my original 5e3 cab - if someone wants it, I can make a sweet deal!

1/30/2004 10:11 PM
bnwitt	Scott, what kind of deal? Barry

1/30/2004 10:54 PM
Scott Wolfe	Well, a schweet deal, of course. Email me. swolfe@wolfefinancial.net

1/30/2004 10:18 PM
Owen	Re: Stripping Polyshades/or remove Tweed Ok, so I guess I'm stuck with the polyshades. So how do I remove tweed? Maybe that is another option! How hard would it be? Thanks for the responses so far, just weighing my options here. I'll be sure to post the results.

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