Almost every X-79 I see for sale has the finish chipped off in big chunks, usually on the neck. Did they use automotive paint on these to be extra sparkly or something?
Actually at the time most automotive paint was NC lacquer too.
(California had gone acrylic in '74 IIRC)
It was one of its first uses and virtually created the whole spray gun industry in support of its application.
And Ford was forced to offer more colors besides black, black, or black.
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It's bad enough that the goody headstocks break all the time, but can this type of thing be fixed?
In the generic sense that NCL's easily patched, sure, but color-matching might be a PITA.
And the wood might be so impregnated with contaminants (skin oils) by now that adhesion might be problem, which leads us to:
The first thing that occurred to me was a comment from Hans long ago about how finish adhesion was problem on some acoustic necks from the '70's (or was it early '80's?) because they were using padauk which is particularly oily and thus the finish didn't adhere well.
Otherwise I'm thinking it must be a problem with the typical owner of the instrument, sloppy handling, and when a chip occurs it just keeps getting larger as the edges get chipped away?
So what's the neck wood, do you know?