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I just received my new American Vintage 72 Custom I purchased from sweetwater. I've got a question concerning the Nitro finish. For lack of a better term, the entire guitar feels 'sticky' and literaly 'smells' The smell inside the case is enough to knock you over. I've never purchased a brand new guitar with a nitro finish, so I'm not sure what to expect. I have a 52 reissue with the same type finish (nitro) and it plays smooth as silk. I'm wondering if there is a 'curing' process going on? I found myself having to wash my hands every 15 minutes or so to get what I would descibe as a sticky film off my hands.
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I'm leaving it on a stand for the time being.Has anyone else experienced this and if so, how long does it last? At this point, it's tough to tell how it plays, but the guitar is drop dead georgeous to look at. Contrary to the pictures Fender has out there, the guitar has a 'vintage' tinted neck (almost the exact shade of my 52 reissue) that looks great with the black nitro finish. Nitro can take time to fully cure. It's an evaporative finish, meaning that the solids are dissolved in a solvent which evaporates and the finish dries.
In fact, there is a mix of solvents and some of these ingredients (known as 'plasticizers' which has become a dirty word on guitar forums) are meant to dissolve so slowly that they stay in the finish for a long time and keep it flexible enough so that it won't crack. Gibsons are famous for the occasional 'sticky neck.' Usually time is sufficient to cure the problem (so to speak) but sometimes you need to use a gentle abrasive like Virtuoso polish to get rid of the topmost sticky layer (I wouldn't worry about needing to do that yet; see if you can stand to wait a month or so to see if it hardens on its own). Leaving it out of the case for awhile (a few weeks) is a good idea, but make sure the stand is nitro friendly (really none of them are, so use socks or rags to pad the stand). Don't get bug repellant or alcohol on the finish. If you're concerned that there's some sort of polish or wax on there that's either wiping off or preventing the finish from fully curing, then you can carefully clean it off with naptha (lighter fluid) which is safe for nitro.
But certainly call Sweetwater with your experience and your concerns; their sales and customer service are top notch. I know have both the MIM version and the just released American Vintage version. My original plan was to buy the MIM version and replace the neck with a custom vintage tinted neck.Just love that look.
2 months later they released the American Vintage model so now I have both. Played it last night for about an hour and a half (until my fingers couldn't take it anymore). Played mostly the neck pu.My take is that the MIM version has a much brighter punchier sound. The neck pu on the AV version is much more mellow.
I'll try it again once my finger tips recover and report back on the bridge pu. Hopefully the finish will cure sooner rather than later as it's really no fun to play right now. Click to expand.Base/sealer coats aside, Fender did not go all poly after 68. It's common misinformation. Sunbursts, for example, remained nitrocellulose lacquer until the mid to late 70s. Many or most custom colors in the early 70s were lacquer. If you search this forum you should find lots of info on this from past years.
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With regard to black, many late 60s and early to mid 70s black Teles were sprayed very, very thin, with no base coat, over poplar. These finishes wore and aged more like laquer, with lots of fine checking. So, some early black 70s Teles look like a relicer's dream, and some look like they were dipped in plastic. I currently have a black 69 Tele (poplar), a black 72 Thinline (poplar), a black 73 Custom (alder), and a black 74 Custom (poplar or alder, not certain) sitting here; each have paper thin finishes with extensive fine checking (as opposed to big cracks or poly 'U's') and wear.