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Hello all. This is one of my first posts in the electric section. I've been spending most of my time building acoustics. A couple weeks ago my aunt had called wanting to order a guitar for my Uncle. He lives in Arizona, far from where I am, but we were together at a family reunion of sorts a few weeks ago and he really wanted me to build him a Telecaster. So my aunt was going to surprise him with one for Christmas.....Well, the surprise lasted a few days before she blurted out that she had already ordered him a guitar. She was digging for details and it just came out....

Anyway, I have been traveling to my parents place where my shop access is over the last couple of weeks to get it done. Its a 3 and half hour drive so I am trying to get as much work done while I'm here as possible...Today I was flush trimming my pattern to the body and had a couple spots were I either got to aggressive or careless (Also very nervous). So there is a couple spots of some pretty severe tearout.

My question is...Does anyone know of a quality putty that would match mahogany well, be sandable, and take a stain or finish. I'll be attempting the see through yellow,butterscotch or whatever you want to call the old tele finish.

I forgot to mention that this is going to be a thinline with a chambered body. Here's a few pictures....

http://www.acehardware.com/product/inde ... 1304637883

Ace is really the only hardware store in town and this is what I found...Anyone know if the latex base will be cause for any problems when finishing with lacquer?

Mitch,

I would just sand those sections until the tearout is gone. Just reshape the areas so you don't have a flat spot. Any filler you use in a hole that size will show under a transparent finish.

Steve

Thanks for the suggestion Steve. I made a patch for the deeper one and it's in the shop drying. I think I will take your advice about sanding the other to blend it in.

Mitch

concur with the sanding. I was going to mention gluing in a chip into the deeper one, but sounds like you already did that.

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