markophonic
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My Lanikai Makeover w/videos of my progress w/UPDATES
I have a Lanikai LU21C that I picked up recently for $89.00 and deceided to give it a makeover. I picked up some sealed tuners with ebony buttons and a bone nut and saddle from Mike at Mainland. I'm also going to refinish it. I started sanding the VERY thin polyurethane finish off with 1000 grit and actually being careful I had a couple of sand throughs...I thought about covering it up with a vintage sunburst but deceided against it as I don't want to put too much time into this $89.00 dollar beater Uke.
I've replaced the stock sealed tuners which had string posts that were much too long making it difficult to get the strings wrapped on the post and have a decent break over the nut. There must have been 10 wraps on the post and the break over the nut was too shallow and I had problems with the E string popping out of the nut. The new tuners have a much sorter post and look like they will work out great.
I'm still decieding how I'll refinish it. maybe tung oil. I do alot of work on guitars and have done some very nice refins on some figured maple Les Pauls and some nice finishes on some Telecasters and Stratocasters from vintage to my own builds....This is not going to be one of those
UPDATES FARTHER DOWN THE THREAD
I have a Lanikai LU21C that I picked up recently for $89.00 and deceided to give it a makeover. I picked up some sealed tuners with ebony buttons and a bone nut and saddle from Mike at Mainland. I'm also going to refinish it. I started sanding the VERY thin polyurethane finish off with 1000 grit and actually being careful I had a couple of sand throughs...I thought about covering it up with a vintage sunburst but deceided against it as I don't want to put too much time into this $89.00 dollar beater Uke.
I've replaced the stock sealed tuners which had string posts that were much too long making it difficult to get the strings wrapped on the post and have a decent break over the nut. There must have been 10 wraps on the post and the break over the nut was too shallow and I had problems with the E string popping out of the nut. The new tuners have a much sorter post and look like they will work out great.
I'm still decieding how I'll refinish it. maybe tung oil. I do alot of work on guitars and have done some very nice refins on some figured maple Les Pauls and some nice finishes on some Telecasters and Stratocasters from vintage to my own builds....This is not going to be one of those
UPDATES FARTHER DOWN THE THREAD
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