Finishing the job for them
Got lucky enough to trip over this a few months ago, she was sitting in the music shop collecting because the cork-like top had collected a dent or scratch just about every time it’d been picked up.
I know there’s a bit of a divide between the “just play it” crew and the people who have an autism level loathing for chipped instruments, I’m 100% the latter.
So I got to work sanding, gave danish oil a crack and it looked alright but I still didn’t dig having suck a soft wood unsealed out in the open.
Eventually I thought fuck it I’ll do things properly for once, and spent the next 4 weeks applying and sanding about 25 coats of acrylic lacquer (small town and I’m not waiting weeks for nitro)
So here we are, this is what the poplar top should’ve looked like in the S770