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That's interesting Brad, I wonder what caused that? I used Frisket tape recently for the first time for French Polish on an red spruce top, the tape was on there for about 6 weeks - I ignored the guitar for a while. When I took it off there was no residue and I was able to glue right to the surface. I really liked the way I could do the finish work with no interference. Previously I've always routed and/or scraped the finish off for the fretboard extension and bridge.

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It was probably the difference between the solvents in the nitro and french polish.

That makes sense, all I used was alcohol.

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I mask the bridge area off... it makes removing the finish later for gluing much easier. You don't have to be exact either, just mask off the area inside the glued area and then peel the tape off once the finish is done. Scrap the rest of the area off.

I don't know about grain raising, is it severe? If not, then don't sweat it. Because honestly if you're using anything except sealing the entire guitar inside and out with catalyzed urethane, you're going to get grain raising eventually. Nitro gets that way after a few years if you applied it in such thickness as to not affect the sound.

Gibson puts them on THICK, in case you're wondering...

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