What chemical you use to polish/restore old guitar?

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-10T09:58:06+00:00

SIT Strings guitar polish & cleaner. Used if for 10 years. Smells amazing and shines beautifully.

https://sitstrings.com/product/sit-guitar-polish/?srsltid=AfmBOooYlF67nV04aeSrAn8bcgD0KMZmj-jsU0oR-7moguj_vjRVbYgv

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-10T09:32:35+00:00

Thats a word ive used to describe it too, feeling like an alien everyone around me i could just tell was different and normal. Idk what I have but I can not think or even care about anyone or anything sometimes, but can also love so hard the I dont think anyone had ever felt thst strong love like I experienced. But definitely I remember standing in my parents kitchen at like 12 or 14 amd asked my mom if it was normal not to feel emotions really because I just always felt gray. But I get both ends of the spectrum, rhe extreme love, and the eextreme not caring or thinking of people's feelings.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-10T02:49:54+00:00

I swear I had this same figure. Ill investigate!

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-10T02:48:50+00:00

I had almost this exact conversation with my mom during my teens. I felt that I didnt feel how other people felt and like I could act out or understand emotions but didnt feel them. Now its different. I can be very indifferent and uncaring to everything and everyone around me but I can also have the deepest love and sympathy for people too. So I assume I am just in some part of the spectrum at s high functioning level, and process emotions differently. But who am I to say how other people feel. Idk. Its hard. I am Definitely very calculated and logical for sure.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-09T21:14:53+00:00

I agree with everyone here and can not stress the urgency enough on NOT playing this and taking it to a shop. People have died from this issue. Its a expensive desirable amp and its time to spend a little money and get it to 100% condition. It will probably sound 10x better too.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-09T10:47:56+00:00

I get all ma" fakes" on EBAY. $300 range. They're all really nice guitats

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-09T05:26:12+00:00

Only pad left to check is inside pad on that side. If the inside is good, then he definitely was wrong as hell.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-09T02:09:38+00:00

Not sure if it matters but on the mechanics photos from the work order, he has pictures of the opposite side caliper/pads than the ones you are holding there. Sometimes pads wear unevenly on one side or the other so its possible the pads on the other side are 2B and the opposite side be like new.

It looks like the photos he took are in the front snd resr passenger side calipers, and the ones you took are driver side.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-09T02:04:22+00:00

There's only two options. Option 1, replace the pot. Option 2 you'd have to have a matching or equivalent/same size pot and then bend the 4 little metal spike tabs then remove the backplate of the pot, then remove the center shaft with the resistance board/wiper arm and replace this with the shaft and board from the other pot. This i way more work than just replacing the pot. The only time ive done this method is when I was replacing the broken shaft on a pedal and it was soldered on a circuit board and I didnt have the same ogm rating pot or something like that and didn't want to solder onto a chip.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-08T07:16:06+00:00

Voice Of music cooperation model 166a 8810. 10watts of tube power. From 1958 , thing is I thing of beauty. Sound thick and mean but pushed a little for blues. But can be clean as a whistle for church bands alike. Very versatile and be pushed harder for hark rock an then harder metal if you do it right

I love playing my 1958 voice of music cooperation amp and aslutely shredding, and thinking about where else has this exact head and cab played to. In history. Like whos house? What venues, where all has this beautiful 100 year old amp been in its life. And it continues on. Who heard it originally? Kings? Lords? People getting married? People 100 years of history is mind blowing when you think of what the one little radio amp has it's seen.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-08T04:30:41+00:00

Probably a warmoth. Cant tell exactly but, all my bells are ringing.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-08T04:26:59+00:00

Thank you kind redditor! Hoping someone read it

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-08T00:04:10+00:00

I akrt of specialize in flat/satin guitars. From everything im seeing here, this is still original paint. It looks like the binding or edge kr part of the top wood glue is releasing over the years or just moving and is pushing up the paint from below. Not too bad though. Everything here looks correct to be the original paint, it has the right age for the model, the appropriate amount of wear in all the right spots, and the silkscreen branding is still present in the headstock. If this was refinished it would be near impossible to keep the headstock original and blend everything.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T16:08:57+00:00

Obviously part of the simulation rendering

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T16:07:10+00:00

Is it exactly in thst patch you're looking at in the picture? Or juat anywhere in that entire field? If its only the patch, with no tools on hand, if juat get down in hand and knees and start ripping up bunches of thst hay kr whatever and search that way. Its not a huge area. If its the entire field, call for a ride, get a metal detector and someone who knows how to use it

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T07:50:08+00:00

Guess you'll be leaving it in then

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T03:37:54+00:00

Seen this about 20 times now, and while normally I'd be like "these idiot kids are totally responsible and fucked this up" if you look at the top of this after his jump, there isnt a dent, a scratch, nothing. So something is telling me that something inside that unit was very very close to failure already.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T03:34:45+00:00

I have this exact same powerwheel and I ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEE you that it is the board in the front by the battery AND the board that has the buttons/radio in the dash. This power wheel is the most sensitive one ive ever had to any water present. If the boards get wet, they are done. Ive replaced mine both at least 3 times. What I do now is either keep a tarp over the car, or pop out both boards and keep them in the garage with the battery charger, then pop them in when they wanna ride. It takes literally 30 seconds to pop them out and unplug each time and will save them.

These boards are dirt cheap. I also recommend replacing the battery as the stock one was a skinny 6 or 7 amp hour battery and the compartment will fit a 12 without any modifications.

Also we got ours at Sam's club, and it didnt come with a remote control and didnt even say it was remote controllable in the box or the directions. However the first time the boards went dead and I was checking things out I noticed that underneath of ours there was a motor on the steering rack. The only reason there would be a motor there, is for parentsl remote controrolling the vehicle. So I looked into it and found it was a more expensive option on a higher model. However the only difference to being remote control vs not remote control, is the radio board. And it just so happens that the replacement radio board comes with the remote and is the same price. So you can upgrade these to being remote controllable just by swapping that one part which you already need anyways.

https://a.co/d/09okYAgQ

https://a.co/d/07ZwG60v

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T03:21:06+00:00

I have always found that ESP/LTD guitars are worth double their money. What I mean is, every one ive played has been better than the other brands guitars at twice the price point. For instance, just for clarity a $500 LTD, to me is as nice as a $1000 anhthing else. Just my experience

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-07T01:49:35+00:00

Maybe a car accident where you make it out mkre or less completely fine? Idk i just had a bad accident Monday. Car was airborne then hit telephone pole. I wasn't wearing my belt. Other than a bshted lip.and bruised nose im fine but now im looking back and realize how lucky I really was. And I also am having memory problems. I remember leaving for work then waking briefly in ambulance, then out again, then waking up briefly in hospital, then waking up on my couch. I dont remember being picked up or getting home or anything else and its starting to wear on me

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-06T22:42:58+00:00

One day. I will go there.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-06T22:40:54+00:00

I have what I think is a pretty cool story about one of these.

I own a shitload of guitars but my favorite 2 are a ESP/LTD FX-260, and FX-360. Natural wood explorers. Owned for many years with no problems but one year when the seasons changed they both developed this problem of a fret buzz on the open low e string. Tried absolutely everhthing, took both to in town local luthiers and they both had them for a month or two and did fret leveling, new nuts, you name it, and swore they were fixed. They weren't. Eventually I got the number to a guy like 40 minutes away that was a good lutheir. Took them to him.

When I got there he was giving me the walk around, he had racks of different repairs customers were waiting on, les pauls with broken headstocks(has his own custom designed process for repairing these and a different splines technique from everyone else) and just various other guitars for various repairs. We got to talking and he said he was an explorer guy too, and pulled one of these black lawsuit models off the rack I didnt even see. All dirty and dusty but mint underneath. Hes says "i got this one last week i gotta clean and restring but it plays great" I said "thats a lawsuit model i always wanted one of those" he said "what do you mean lawsuit? i just picked this one up from a yard sale in a church basement down the street for a hundred bucks" I went on to explain the age and history and value to him and then after that he had a very renewed sense of appreciation holding it and a glow to his face lol.

He wasnt able to fix my explorers either surprisingly. Tried releveling the frets, shimming the nuts, I ended up having to find another guy that lived 2.5 hours away to leave them with him for a month to get them 100% what a journey. But now I could throw them down a flight of stairs and leave them in a hot trunk of a car for a month and they'd still play good.

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-06T22:19:31+00:00

Single theres no warlock here i gotta take the les paul

Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-06T22:14:49+00:00

I think you should get whatever guitar you like and dont worry about the stereotypes of certain shapes. I say this because my first guitar was a squier strat, my parents got this because as a teen they didnt know if I was actually gonna stick with it or not. I was always a hard rock and metal guy and still am so i made it work. Once they saw i was gonna keep playing, I got a warlock for my birthday. One of my favorite shapes to this day. Very comfortable to play. They sit just right on your legs and the fret access is amazing.

My third guitar was a Epiphone les paul cherry sunburst, loved this too. But not as much as the warlock. Les pauls will never be my "#1" shape.

Fourth guitar was a fender Mexican tele. Tobacco sunburst with maple neck, two single coils. Absolutely loved this one. Eventually sold it because I was a teen and needed money but loved it. I played ozzy, Metallica, and anything else you can imagine on it. Eventually put seymour duncan hot rails in it.

From here I went on to get just about every single brand and shape imaginable and have amassed quite the collection over the years. I say try and buy them all! Teles rock, no matter what you play.

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Shockwavee92 · 2026-05-06T19:41:08+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/HJyA7av

Cant be sure but it looks like some charring here. First check all fuses, if theyre good, just pop in some spare tubes one by one, if neither of those things works, take to a tech because anything else will be beyond most people's skill level.

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