French polish cracks 3 months post build
Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:28 am
Hi All two sets of random "cracks" or splits have appeared in my guitar 3 months after finishing (see photos)...they are in two areas only on the top, with none occurring on the back, sides or neck....95% of the top is fine with these collections of cracks appearing on the right hand upper bout near the finger board and on the left hand side around 1/4 of the rosette everywhere else seems fine.... I tried level sanding with 1500 and 2000 grit paper and then Novus polishing which seemed to fix it, but a few weeks later they have returned...really frustrating! so Should I fine sand and then spirit off or FP again over these crack thereby filling and then re levelling? The polish was too thick in these areas initially but they did seem to respond to levelling and repolishing many months ago.
I don't want to have to go back to bare wood again as I don't think that's necessary(yet) but would really appreciate some input especially form the PF gurus...
Cheers Mark
I don't want to have to go back to bare wood again as I don't think that's necessary(yet) but would really appreciate some input especially form the PF gurus...
Cheers Mark