Aria Strat rebuild, BEFORE

This is an Aria Strat copy with a slightly suspect home paint job. The guitar is all complete, including electrics and hardware, so it was just requiring a good sand, a paint job and reassembly.

I started ussing paint stripper, which saves a lot of time but is a little messy. Once the majority of paint is off is a fairly easy job to clean up and sand, working down through the grades of paper.

 

As you can see, the body and neck are clean now and ready to start spraying.