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What are your favored abrasive polishes for removing very light scratches, from handling, on 3-month-old NC lacquer?

StewMac's FINE on the buffer will take out the very lightest. SM MEDIUM followed by FINE would probably take them all, out but I don't want to take it to the wheels after everything's assembled - punctuated by several buff throughs already on this build.

I have two different very fine metal polishes (Flitz and MaaS) that remove very very fine scratches but would like something a tiny bit more aggressive for this bench rash. I have 3M Finesse glaze for automotive clear coat but don't really want to put it to guitar lacquer, I'm not sure its even abrasive. Meguire's 9 ?

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Karl Borum

Believe it or not, in a pinch toothpaste works pretty well.

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I use Novus fine scratch remover. I’ve also used toothpaste in the past although mostly on hard plastics.

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Steve Smith
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I use the 3M PerfectIt 06068 and the 3M 05990 Hand Glaze for final spit shine.

The PerfectIt is great for what you’re saying, fixing without going to the buffer.

The other option, if you aren’t covering a lot of area, is a felt block with your same SM compound on it.


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Mequires has a number of products such as fine scratch remover that work great on guitars too and are available in every town USA, Canada and beyond... maybe...

I mostly use 3M Finesse It with a buffing wheel mounted on a variable speed drill. Swirls left from that process can be removed with 3M Hand Glaze.
For more aggressive polishing by hand, I use Mother's Mag and Aluminum Polish.
This is for all guitar finishes, including nitrocellulose lacquer.

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John

The toothpaste I used in a pinch was Arm & Hammer baking soda based. It starts out fairly aggressive and breaks down to a finder abrasive with use.

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I think building guitars then repairing the f-ups is how refinishers are born.
I'm going to finish this build process then string it up before I start the "re-finishing" process.
I've somehow become the bull-in-a-china-shop. I think as my wood/ tool/ WIP inventory grows, my shop working space is consumed by it. Thanks for all the suggestions on rash polish!

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Karl Borum