Saturday night I had just finished a guitar for Client pickup Sunday noon, and when I was leaving the workshop I stumbled and knocked the guitar off the repair vise.
The neck duly bounced off the metal jaw, the bolt securing it, the swivel block itself and the handle, where it came to rest.
Lucky - except for a dozen or so dents and some scratches left in the back of the neck as it bounced it's way down.
Oops!
Fortunately the finish was pretty tough and nothing was broken, only dented (EV gloss, well cured)
I had recently purchased the Kovax/Tolecut finish repair blocks and abrasives, 800-3000 grit, and also I had a bottle of GluBoost thin Fill n Finish to hand.
After dinner, went back and in the space of a couple of hours had filled the dents with the Fill n Finish, hit it with non-whitening kicker and leveled the lumps (took about 10 single edged razor blades) and then sanded level up though the grits.
Couldn't buff because my buffer has to be assembled outside when I need it, so next morning, went back and buffed the neck out.
You would never have known what happened.
Can't recommend the Kovax system more highly for repairs and drop fills, and the GluBoost everyone must know about by now.
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