Dupont MD50 Guitar Finish Is MELTING!

Bohemian

It's in the air : )

crookedpinky

I also have an area on my Dupont Busato - the bottom edge of the lower bout of the guitar - which also feels different from the rest of the guitar and I've never figured out what's causing it. It feels "sticky" and yet the guitar is not normally in contact with anything else as it spends most of it's life on a stand in a relatively stable environment, i.e. my dining room. I've tried wiping it and cleaning it but nothing makes a difference and yet in doesn't seem to be getting any worse ????????

Bones

Hey Crook, be careful with leaving a guitar on a stand for long periods if the stand has that plastic tubing over the metal parts to cushion the guitar. If left in contact for a long time the plastic can react with nitro/other finishes and leave a mark or worse.

crookedpinky

I've got all my guitars on wooden stands and they are in minimal contact with any rubber but the bit that's sticky on the Busato has never been in touch with anything. It's weird !

Bones

Hmmmmm

Jazzaferri

To confuse things even further, my DuPont sits on one of those cheapo made in China with orange tubing stands ...about 10 years old. No marks. My other regular use guitars hang from the neck. And rest their backs on a black neoprene like rubber. Again no marks.

Variety of finishes. Dunn is water based lacquer, reso is tung oil based finish and old Kay is nitro lacquer.

Don't know what to make of it but no problems. Lucky perhaps ??

crookedpinky

The plot - if not the Dupont finishes - thickens ?

Casey Burns

Insect repellent is definitely the culprit. At a music camp I go to everyone avoids it usually for this very reason. Yet someone always loses the finish on their instrument due to it every other year or so. About the only thing that can be done is refinishing.

crookedpinky

How does that explain the stickiness on my Dupont ? I have never used insect repellent on myself or the guitar and given where it is - next to where the guitar rests on your knee - it is unlikely that that part would come into contact with anything which would cause the finish to change.

Jazzaferri

Anyone know what DuPont use to finish their guitars.