frono, my old friend! Let me see if I can remember the 'krylon details.'
There was a music store in my hometown that closed up around 15 years ago. Two repair shops morphed out of the ashes of the original store.
I visited one of the repair shops shortly after they opened in 2007 and saw an elephant's graveyard-type of scrap-pile at the back of the shop. In the middle of it all was an off-white Guild bass neck with headstock, tuning keys, logo, body and all the rest of the parts.
The repair guy pulled it out for me. I saw a BiSonic pickup (first time) and what I later identified as a Starfire I bass. He hit me with a high price around the time I noticed 1 or 2 active cracks on the back of the headstock. I told Mr. Repair that I was more interested in the pickup than anything and asked him if it worked. It did, so we settled for an attractive price (from my viewpoint) for the whole project.
'My' Repair Guy (a different fellow) looked at it and said that he couldn't get the Krylon off without destroying the finish so I asked him to strip it, shoot it with black lacquer, fix the cracks, et al. For some reason he was bothered about the idea that I didn't believe the Krylon was not removable (not true), so he grabbed some chemicals off the shelf and rubbed a little on the back of the Bass.
Voila, the Krylon was gone! Sacre Bleu and back to the original Sunburst finish we went!
How is the bass now? The Krylon itself is about 99% gone, but if you try, you can still see very small blotches of white where there are cracks in the original lacquer. Doesn't matter, it's a mighty good bass.
That's most of the story, frono. I'll tell you the rest the next time I see you!
All the best, gilded