PRB Petrucci #2: All Shined Up

[CudBucket]

Friday night, I popped the neck off the loaded PRB Pet I got off Ebay. Masked the frets and hit them with some 0000 steel wool and then polished them with Flitz. I then masked the glossed portion of the headstock with tape and lightly sanded the back of the neck with 1200 paper and applied to coats of Birchwood Casey oil. I waited about 15 seconds after applying it to buff it off. Then the same with BC wax. The fretboard got two coats of Weiman's lemon oil. The rest of the hardware got buffed out to perfection. I cleaned the body and headstock with EB guitar polish. The result? It looks better than my beloved '04 special order PRB Pet. So that one gets the treatment today. I still may end up selling the loaded PRB so I can special order another JP6 with piezo but no inlay or matching headstock. I'm think Medallion gold.

Anyway, here she is.

 

[adambilz]

Mmmmmmmm, I suppose hard work rewards itself, but that looks beautiful!

 

[CudBucket]

Thanks. I need to adjust the truss on this new one. The action is a bit higher than I like. The thing that makes me so happy about this one is that even though, when I opened the case after it arrived at my house, I could see it didn't have a mark on it, it was in serious need of a good cleaning. There was gunk on the hardware, knobs and body. The strings were rusted and the frets were dull and scratchy. Now, the guitar looks like it came from the factory.

 

[Quarter]

Very nice score

 

[brentrocks]

that is a nice lookin JP

 

[lumberjack]

AHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! Very nice, CudBucket

 

[adambilz]

How did you clean the saddles so well? Mine always get dusty, then smudgy, then sometimes spotty/rusty. What's the secret?

 

[Kontalonis]

Nice work man!

Looks beautiful and i'm pining for a closeup of the back/front of the neck!

 

[CudBucket]

How did you clean the saddles so well? Mine always get dusty, then smudgy, then sometimes spotty/rusty. What's the secret?

Take a small piece of an old undershirt. Put a half-dime size spot of Flitz on it and rub it into the shirt first. Ball up the piece of cloth and rub across the tops of the saddles. These saddles were spotty when I got the guitar. The reason you rub it into the shirt first is so you don't press loose Flitz into hard to reach crevices of the saddles.

I started my other JP6 today and will show you how sweet the back of that neck looks.

 

[koogie2k]

Nice work Dave.....nice axe as well....My PRB JP-6 is a weapon....I just love that one for some reason.....

 

[Lucidology]

Great job Cud... would you mind telling us which of the Flitz products you use... seems they have two or three variations?

 

[CudBucket]

Great job Cud... would you mind telling us which of the Flitz products you use... seems they have two or three variations?

Mine is the metal polish in a silver-gray tube. I've had it for years so I don't know if they still package it that way.

Finished my other PRB tonight and strung it up with .012s for C tuning.

 

[darren]

Two words for you: CHROME KNOBS!

Okay, two more... NICE GUITAR!

 

[CudBucket]

Two words for you: CHROME KNOBS!

I may consider that.