burnsbonkers wrote:Yeah, i know what you're saying. But it had already been attacked by its previous owner.
The paint on the neck is no more than a few flakes of black - the edge of the body had alrrady been handed ( not flaked off ) there are lots of chips around the edges.
Pics please. It looks fine in the pictures, and in the auction pictures. That's what a fifty year old guitar looks like. If it really has been so badly molested, then a minor overspray is all that is required. A strip and refinish is nothing more than mad butchery.
You're making me feel awful that I even posted the thing up here in the first place...To think I could have just left well alone, and it would have gone to someone who'd appreciate it for what it is- a fine, increasingly rare, original finished early sixties Burns.
If you really want to 'restore' something, why not do the one that's already missing the paint?
All you should be considering with the new one is a minor overspray, and that's only if you REALLY can't bring yourself to resist the misplaced urge to tinker.