Question: Refinishing a Super Sport.....

[ozzyrules]

Let's suppose I found a great deal on an all rosewood ASS but I'm not a fan of the rosewood top. Could that rosewood top be refinished in a really cool color? I've never taken on a project like this and I'm unsure if the rosewood could be refinished. Any thoughts?

 

[beej]

Why not buy it sell/trade for something you do like? It'd be a lot of effort/cost to make something which will end up having a lower resale value down the road.

 

[ozzyrules]

Good point. I guess I'm a big fan of the all rosewood neck though.

 

[brokenvail]

buy it and down the line by another with a nat head stock then swap the necks and sell the one with the RW body and nat head stock

 

[kimonostereo]

Yeah brokenvail has the right idea. No need to refinish that if you can just swap it. But of course that means you'd have to buy two... but that's never a bad thing.

I'm thinking of swapping my all rosewood AL HH neck onto my AL pinky...

 

[fsmith]

If you're not worried about the resale value, $300-$350 will get you a brand new paint job in the color of your choice. I refinished my Luke when I decided that Luke Blue wasn't doing it for me but I loved the guitar...

fred

 

[Jack FFR1846]

If you're not worried about the resale value, $300-$350 will get you a brand new paint job in the color of your choice. I refinished my Luke when I decided that Luke Blue wasn't doing it for me but I loved the guitar...

fred

With the binding, it might be a bit more. There were Axis guitars with all rosewood necks but normal bodies. There was a Tobacco Burst BFR at my local GC for a while that I'd love to have bought......and don't know now why I didn't.

 

[ozzyrules]

Thanks for the input,guys. I'm still thinking.......

 

[straycat113]

It is cool if you have two of the same guitar and just want to swap necks as you can always just switch back if you decide to sell, but as beej pointed out it would be the samething as a refin to buy a guitar that had a neck from a diferent guitar unless it was a great deal on an ax you want as a player. If you went to sell it down the road it would only be right to say it was a mix and match or you would wind up ruining your name pretty fast. But getting back to the original question I cant say I ever saw a Rose Wood body that had a finish other than natty RW unless it was capped with a different wood ,which I really cant recall ever seeing.