This is an Edwards that I bought. I really hate polyurethane so I decided to strip it and repaint it in lacquer...which has turned out to be a massive job. I've painted Fender type bodies a bunch, never a set neck. Taking the polyurethane off was simple with a heat gun, but under that there was a super thick coating of epoxy which took an insane amount of sanding to get off. A heat gun wouldn't do anything to it and neither would really nasty chemical stripper, which ruined the binding. So I then had to learn how to redo binding on a guitar, fucked it up, had to learn how to rout a new channel for binding, lost my shit numerous times gluing that shit around all the curves. Painting it was easy, then binding scraping, polishing... Finally in the homestretch now though and working on binding nibs on the board. Set necks are a bitch compared to Fender bodies. It feels super nice now though, not like a chunk of plastic, and the back previously was kind of a piss yellowish tan.