Pick scuffs

[catzodellamarina]

My 2005 Charvel CS Dweezil is the only guitar I own which I bought brand new. It's showing an excessive amount of pick scratches and scuffs. I've owned it less tha a year and it looks worse than all my other 90's import Charvels. I don't play it that much. It shares stage time with my Jem 777 FP. I also never practice with it, I reserve it for live use.

I can't understand why the finish isn't holding up. Is it the color that reveals more use? What can I use to buff out the dullness?

[jimbilly]

The finer car finish polishes work well. I've hear that there's a mcquires that works well, I use Griots garage (griotsgarage.com) fine hand polish, it'll make a pickguard on a strat shine like new. Maybe you need to choke-up on the pick a bit?

[Dreamland_Rebel]

car wax is the ticket.

[quiksilver]

The Fender/Meguiar's guitar polish kit is really nice. I recommend it.

[catzodellamarina]

I figured a quality polish would work.

It irritates me that after all these years, why now am I experiencing excessive scratches on my best guitar?

[z1n]

I figured a quality polish would work.

It irritates me that after all these years, why now am I experiencing excessive scratches on my best guitar?

It might be from the setup. the bridge, low action, strings, even the pickups play a part. But if it has lower action then your other guitars it could explain the scratchs happening more. Maybe take a closer look at the guitars and compare string height.

[Tiddles]

It’s funny how some guitars easily show pic. scratches, whilst others seem almost bullet proof.

Plastic pickguards will obviously show wear easily & quickly, but that PS2 I bought on eBay a few weeks back shows almost no pick marks at all (no pickguard on that model), and looks like maybe someone just played it maybe 50 hours…yet the fret-wear shows that in fact someone played it within an inch of it’s life lol..

One factor is whether guys strum a lot of chords vs. picking a lot of lead stuff….playing lots of chords will quickly show a mass of scratches, whereas on that PS2 for example someone played a lot of solo stuff around 12th to 20th, and that tends to show deep fret-wear but without many pick scratches on body/guard.

Ian.

[Newc]

Stop dragging your nails across the finish when you pick.

Or better yet, learn how to not hit the body with the pick (if that's what you're doing). Follow-through is good for Golf, bad for playing guitar, mmkay?

It could also be that yours was tested heavily before it left the factory.
I fully expect my War Angel to arrive with scuffs, seeing as how they "had to pry it away" from the guy who was testing it