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    You could try a wet cloth...  Like a car towel...
    
    
                                                    Marko

	Windex sometimes works pretty well at breaking the glue down.

    Nail polish remover ...
    
    
    Scary

Try this...

get some (good) lemon oil, and SOAK the life out of em...  Impregnate the
gunk/paper with this oil,, they should just rub off after a while, with
no harm done to the finish..

If that don't work, try a good wood spirit (like turpentine)
and try to clean the wood....  but go gently,, no heavy duty, elbow grease
rubbing....  Nail Polish Remover (RE:Scary) will work, but as
with a Wood Spirit, be careful,, too much elbow grease could/will
damage the finish,, (Unless you're out to refinish it anyway)

The lemon oil is yer best bet,, albeit, a slower process...

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40 stickers,, what a yo-yo...  Still, nothing beat the 57 strat that
had "Dude" Scratched in the back of it with a pocket knife....
What a great way to hose a vintage axe....

The things peoples do!!!!!

    Use Zippo Lighter fluid.  If you use a little elbow grease and
    acetone based things (like finger nail polish remover), you'd
    definately hose your finish.  Lighter fluid contains naptha
    and won't hurt anything.  I like the idea of lemon oil too, but 
    Danny Weber said somewhere that that stuff isn't so good either.
    
    Maybe steam ??
    
    jc

    -1:  COOP KNOWS!
    
    DEFINITELY USE LIGHTER FLUID! Any other solvent is probably going to
    ruin the finish, especially acetone (lacquer thinner). Besides, lighter
    fluid works better than anything else regardless of the finish.

    --rjb

    
    Richard Stanley told me to use naptha to get some glue off my guitar
    (when I was young and foolish, I bought a guitar pickup that was held
    on by velcro strips, which I let them glue to my guitar).
    
    Coleman's camp stove fuel contains naptha, so I used some of that.  It
    worked great.  I wiped it down with a damp cloth afterwards.

    Justine

    
    	You might try using a hairdryer to help soften and peel off the 
    	stickers, then go back with the mineral spirits (I like Color Tile 
    	brand cement remover) to remove the remaining residue.
    
    	-pat

    Definitely don't use nail polish remover, it will almost certainly
    attack the lacquer. *My* suggestion is to use Lock-Ease, or some other
    graphite-based lubricant of that nature. Someone told me about this a
    few years ago when I was complaining about why department stores always
    stick price tags on things like plastic items that can't be removed
    without damaging the finish. They told me to try putting a few drops of
    Lock-Ease on them, and I've been a believer ever since. There's
    something in the lubricant that dissolves the glue used in stickers,
    and seems to have no other affect on anything I've ever used it on. You
    just put on a few drops, let it soak in for a minute, and wipe the
    thing off. It does leave a slight oily residue that you could then
    remove with any normal guitar cleaner/polish.
    
    - Ram

If this is the guitar I'm thinking of, I don't know what the
previous owner was thinking of. It has tons of AKG
stickers all over it. 

Did you get this at that "Well Know" New England 
music store chain? ;^)

    THAT'S  the one , I wish the ex-owner would have tried a little less
     "custonizing" on it
    
     Yep, got it at Fathers trashy melodies on the Tyngsboro border.

    Now that we know all the secrets of removing adhesives, let's
    keep it to ourselves and not tell the people that run these
    stores.

             ..

    I second the suggestion of using a hairdryer.  I used to work in a
    bookstore and we used a hairdryer to remove the SALE stickers off the
    hardcover books. Worked great.
    
    I don't know if it will work on a guitar finish, but it's sure worth a
    try.
    
    	Willy

    
    
    	nah, wet sand em off!!!   Shucks, just kidding, I vote for lemon
    oil too!!
    
    
    Steve

Hell, if it was my strat, I'd just razor-scrape them off. ;^)  Screw the 
finish!

I thought the wet sanding idea would work, too.

:) :) :) :)

Will

    I had some nasty stickers on a rack. I tried using mineral spirits.
    It removed some of the less stuborn ones, but there was one that 
    had a layer of plastic in the middle. The only thing that would 
    work on the plastic sticker was to apply heat. This is the standard
    way of removing bumper stickers from cars, but I would be real careful
    applying heat to a guitar. Use heat as a last resort, and start off
    with the dryer held a foot away. Gradually get closer until the sticker
    starts to show some signs of softening. 
    
    You'll never see any stickers on any of my gear !!
    Mark
    

     Well, all the stickers are off the guitar now, I just sprayed 'em
     with windex and waited about 15 minutes, sprayed them once more
     and
    5 minutes later slid them all off. thanks for all the inputs
    
             JT               B*)

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and I'll just bet you could EAT off that Guild right now!!!

Don't it amaze you at how some people are just so rude to nice
instruments.

    TEXWIPES!! These alcohol (isopropl) soaked pads work quite well at
    disolving almost any glue and usually won't damage finishes. Just talk
    to your local friendly Field, I mean Customer, no dammit I mean Service
    Rep (Digital that is)...The name keeps changing but the drudgery is the
    same. Anyways just test on of these in a inconspicuous spot first. The
    alcohol with soak through most paper stickers. Rubbing the sticker
    first before trying to peel it will warm up the glue enough sometimes
    to get the thing off in one piece, but you gotta use enough pressure to
    warm up your fingers good too!! JMHO and experience
    
    FJE
    

 <<TEXWIPES!!

YIKES!!!! and watch that laquer SCA---REAM with pain...

Isopropal Alchol AINT good for wood finishes...  Just the
facts mam...

Stick with the lemon oil,, never do you wrong...

    I can't beleive I've been outta this file since MAY!!!!
    
    I agree with .19 regarding Field/Customer/Digital-Service Engineers
    being the people to talk to about TEXWIPES, and my rates are very good
    indeed.... but as .20 said not on wood!!!!  they also cause problems on
    some plastics.... but for getting stickers off of metalic cases etc...
    this stuff id the nads!
    
    Bonzo
    (they're pretty good for curing hangovers as well)  8*)