Hofner Colorama II restoration project part 2 removing the frets and stripping scraping the lacquer from the guitar neck
The neck on this vintage Hofner Colorama II is going to get tackled before we deal with the guitar's other issues. The neck is in quite a state, with at least the following problems: 1. The frets need replacing (total refret). 2. The fingerboard is very uneven and needs re-radiusing (sanding down to the correct curvature again). 3. There is a long crack/gap running along the fingerboard that will need to be filled in (luckily this is not a structural problem). 4. The nut needs to be removed and replaced. 5. The old lacquer needs to be removed and the neck needs to be re-lacquered. 6. A new waterslide-decal logo needs to be made and applied. 7. The relief on the neck needs to be dealt with (it is back-bowed, even when the truss rod is completely loosened). Today we will just deal with the stripping down stage. First thing to do is remove the neck from the guitar as follows: The machine heads (tuners) and string retainer are also removed, leaving us with this: Before we can do any mo...