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3 minutes to steam out a gibson neck!!! you had the faeries working for you. i've always found them considerably more difficult han martins to remove, and usually there is a lot of glue to scrape out!

i always keep a bowl of cold water and a rag handy to wipe down the top and sides to prevent blushing. have thus never had a blister.

Moisture under the lacquer. Sometimes Blush will work to remove it...but not always on old lacquer. I had this happen on a 57 Gretsch I recently took the neck off of. One thing is that Lacquer sprayed on top of lacquer tends to desolve into the older stuff. When you get this cloud during normal finishing, you can spray another light coat over the top of the ealier one and it will desolve it and dry out the cloud..as long as no new moisture is captured. On an old finish, you can try lightly sanding the top coat to thin the clear finish lower. Just don't go into the color. You may not get the white out of it, but when you respray the new lacquer does not have to penatrate to far to melt into the damaged area. Do this in a dry location (or air conditioned) so no new moisture is trapped and it will often times disapear. I did have a hell of a time getting rid of it off the 1957. It was on the neck extention of the archtop.

Blush is availabe from ReRanch.com and is used to penetrate the lacquer and dry up the moisture caught underneath.

Joe

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Todd, is that two cam clamps and a block of wood under the heel? That's how Amy Hopkins and Jeff Hostetter showed me in shop how to do it about six years ago. When I saw that I thought, how cool! Don't waste your money on a pulling jig.

Here is the jig I made for the 57 I mentioned above....



The back side has a knob that turns a screw that pushes on the heel cap. I use a piece of aluminum between the heel cap and the screw to eliminate marking the heel and to spread the pressure.

Joe

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