phil_104
Cheesesteakologist
Hey everyone,
So this is a follow up to my other thread about the ways to age plastic on a guitar. After hearing and reading a lot of things, I figured out what I was going to do. There where three elements that were key when I was going to age the parts, and they are prep, stain and heat.
So I took the parts off of my guitar, I then took a small piece of 150 sandpaper (the finest I had around the house, and roughed up the parts a little bit. I made sure not to created spots that where more rough than others, exept the edges of the knobs that I roughed up a bit more, to get that worn hands-on look.
Then I brewed my coffee. I made the strongest possible batch I could, using Tim Horton's coffee. I then waited 20 minutes, and placed the coffee in a pirex pot, with a glass top.
I then placed the roughed pieces into the coffee, at noon, under the sun, with the glass top so I wouldn't lose to much coffee. I made sure to have about an inch of coffee above the parts, so the sun wouldn't shine through to much.
Let me tell you, the coffee stayed HOT the whole time! So after about only 3:30 in the coffee, I pulled out my test knob, and it was PERFECT. Only 3.5 hours! I washed them off before installing them on the guitar, and used the hair drying on low to dry them.
The first and second picture is the pieces after 3.5 hours, on the backplate, wich was their original color.
The other pictures are the parts on the guitar.
The third picture is the guitar with the white parts. ( The finish of the guitar is a lot more yellow, because the first owner smoked a lot. He then replaced the knobs and pup covers with real fender ones to make them look whiter when he got the new pickguard.
Hope this helps clear up some myths about the coffee thing, and I hope if someone wants to do the same thing, this can help them pull it off in under 4 hours, with about 25 mins of actual work involved. I went for as natural of a look as I could get, and I am happy with the results!
Enjoy!
So this is a follow up to my other thread about the ways to age plastic on a guitar. After hearing and reading a lot of things, I figured out what I was going to do. There where three elements that were key when I was going to age the parts, and they are prep, stain and heat.
So I took the parts off of my guitar, I then took a small piece of 150 sandpaper (the finest I had around the house, and roughed up the parts a little bit. I made sure not to created spots that where more rough than others, exept the edges of the knobs that I roughed up a bit more, to get that worn hands-on look.
Then I brewed my coffee. I made the strongest possible batch I could, using Tim Horton's coffee. I then waited 20 minutes, and placed the coffee in a pirex pot, with a glass top.
I then placed the roughed pieces into the coffee, at noon, under the sun, with the glass top so I wouldn't lose to much coffee. I made sure to have about an inch of coffee above the parts, so the sun wouldn't shine through to much.
Let me tell you, the coffee stayed HOT the whole time! So after about only 3:30 in the coffee, I pulled out my test knob, and it was PERFECT. Only 3.5 hours! I washed them off before installing them on the guitar, and used the hair drying on low to dry them.
The first and second picture is the pieces after 3.5 hours, on the backplate, wich was their original color.
The other pictures are the parts on the guitar.
The third picture is the guitar with the white parts. ( The finish of the guitar is a lot more yellow, because the first owner smoked a lot. He then replaced the knobs and pup covers with real fender ones to make them look whiter when he got the new pickguard.
Hope this helps clear up some myths about the coffee thing, and I hope if someone wants to do the same thing, this can help them pull it off in under 4 hours, with about 25 mins of actual work involved. I went for as natural of a look as I could get, and I am happy with the results!
Enjoy!
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...that turned out really good, definitely looks well aged!
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