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Hello,

I just buffed a les paul special style build which I pore filled with z-poxy and sprayed with nitro.
I was buffing around the hard to get to area between the neck joint and the horns and burnt thru to the pore filler
on the tip of the horn and area a little smaller than a dime.

Im flying to LA to give this guitar to my brother in four days and a don't want to make it worse and have even more work to do
to fix it. Any advice or sneaky tricks on this repair would be greatly appreciated.

My gut tells me to just mask off the small spot and hit with some coats today and buff it out the morning before I leave.

Do your spot repair, forget the buffer on new lacquer, 3M rough and fine cut rubbing compound, with a gentle touch can work. Let brother do the final polish in a month or two.

great advice! thank you.

glu boost is also a great product for this. They have a fill and finish product.

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You might go with your plan, but forego the full buff-out. Those little drill-mounted buffing wheels with some medium compound work well for a quick, light touch-up buff... you CAN buff 3-4 day old lacquer, but it needs a very light touch. The suggestion to shoot the touch-up, then allow your brother's repair person to finish the job is the lowest risk path.

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thanks guys! I guess ill shoot it with nitro. Ill check the glue boost too that seems cool for future fills!

I would use a touch up gun and - not - mask the area but rather let the edge blend into the existing finish. I would buff it out by hand after allowing as much time as available for the nitro to cure.
If you don't have a touch up gun and there is a HF store around, they sell a 4 oz. gravity feed detail spray gun good enough for little touch ups.
http://www.harborfreight.com/catalogsea ... =spray+gun

So I sprayed it I do have a detail gun that I use but I didn't feather It in. I just masked around the horn and shot it. There is a line but I think I should be able to fade it out in sanding. I dont have micro mesh paper but was thinking of using that to get to a gloss in a couple weeks.
while I'm still on this trip so I dont have to bring polishing compound.

Nitro is very forgiving and is favored because of the great chemical burn-in. I hope your repair works out well, but if it were my problem I would for go the masking tape - leaving a sharp defined edge can sometimes evolve into a whole new finish problem.

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I also burned through the finish while buffing out a tele and had to fix it. I was using EM6000 and I wasn't in a hurry, so this isn't advise, just sharing my experience...

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not necessarily how I would approach this one, but I let lacquer dry on pvc cards, just so I can peel it off, and apply it to small burn through sections. Just drop a little (or spray the whole card while your gun is out) onto the card and let dry. Then on your burn through section, dab a little lacquer thinner, and then put the sheet down. Then level and polish in a few hours. Usually works pretty well.

So before I all of the responses I did mask it and just hit the horn. Six coats of thinned nitro. I let it sit two days. It had. It ridge I then had to go in with a razor blade as a scraper and level the ridge which took a long time. Then I sanded and went to the buffing wheel carefully and it went fine. You would never know looking at it but next time I'll try something else.

I would like to try nils idea sometime.

Thanks for all the help again!