You can refinish a neck, you can paint a neck, what you dont want is bare wood. Some vintage necks that have worn through may be fine due to oil from hands or maybe what ever they are wipped down with, or due to the fact that they might be mahogany like some old gibson or acoustic but you dont want to strip a maple neck and not get it refinished within a reasonable amount of time. My first electric was a Kay, it came all RED including the neck, and it was too much for me, almost imeadiatly I sanded it bare, upon finding it had maple veneer I decided to go clear. It had what I thought was a beastly neck so I narrowed it on the belt sander, equally both sides then also removed wood from the back. I dont recall what I used for clear but it was the 70's and spray cans probably had lacquer, it came out fine, was not extremely hard but did not get gummy. Then about a year later, I decided to make the cutaway deeper and put a Gibson humbucker in it so I did all that plus sanded the body down again, I had Hendrix fever so I decided I needed a white guitar. I left the neck as it was but this white paint I got in a spray can was called "epoxy", I dont know how being as it wasnt a two part but I will say that finish was hard like these new guitars. Im sure regulations have long since eliminated whatever formula that was.
All I can figure Noble is you must have put latex house paint on that thing. I can think of no paint that gets soft from handling it unless latex does but thats for walls and such so who ever handles them ? Or something from arts and craft.
All I can figure Noble is you must have put latex house paint on that thing. I can think of no paint that gets soft from handling it unless latex does but thats for walls and such so who ever handles them ? Or something from arts and craft.
