In the continuing sage of our vintage Hofner Colorama II restoration project, today we will be stripping and scraping the paint off the guitar body itself. If you’re already following the project, you’ll be well aware that we’ve already removed the neck. This is what we’re left with: Stripping a vintage Hofner Colorama (by which I mean stripping it of its components, not the paint, though we’ll be doing that too) is extremely easy. First we take out all the scratchplate/pickguard screws, allowing us to lift the whole thing out, including the output jack, in one go. Next we remove the front vibrato/tremolo cover as follows (you should unscrew the tremolo arm before doing this – in this particular project, removing the arm was a bit of an adventure in itself and will be documented later, but usually you simply unscrew the little thumbwheel and the arm comes off easily): Now the back vibrato cover: The vibrato itself is secured with four screws in its corners, so we remove these too. Once...