Nostalgic Distortion
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My most currentist project is a STK-S6 Classic Stack Plus/Texas Antiquity guard & to save a few bucks I bought the middle R.W.R.P. off the Trading Post from a forum Bro for like $55! Not to bad when you consider how much they cost new & the fact that used ones can be hard to find, especially the R.W.R.P. middle pickups!
The pickup seems to be in pretty good condition but it is a used pup so it did have some baggage. Not that I'm complaining, I knew exactly what I was getting when I paid for it, well almost, the surprise wasn't a big deal & in the end turned out to be a blessing in disguise! So the pickup, it's had the leads cut down to be just long enough to fit into a Stratocaster guard, it was missing the box, and it was also missing the original cover. I guess he wanted black so he sent me two covers with it, one is a typical black Duncan cover with a logo and the other looked like a black Fender cover, until I touched it. I kinda pick @ it & low & behold it spray painted black! That was the surprise BTW?
I was planning on buying some parchment covers, dipping them in coffee to get that old smoky look, & then the neck & middle pickups would match each other. I bought the neck pickup new & it won't be here until Wednesday but I think I've found a solution to my cover problem!
After picking a little more paint off the white cover that had been painted I got out some steal wool and removed about 98% of the paint from the visible part of it & after that I got out some very fine steal wool to polish it up some, but not too much! Once that was done I took about 1 part coffee to 2 parts water and boiled it. This cover is plastic, not parchment, so I had to move it back & forth between the hot coffee & a cold glass of water so it didn't warp or melt?
After getting a little vintage stink on it I took it outside & rubbed it in the mud. Then I brought it back in & rinsed it off with the coffee stain I'd made earlier. By this time I'm thinking this just might work but it needs more? So I lit a cigarette, and then 4, & I proceeded to relic it further. Without having the new one to compare it to its hard to say but I think it actually might work, what do you think?
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The pickup seems to be in pretty good condition but it is a used pup so it did have some baggage. Not that I'm complaining, I knew exactly what I was getting when I paid for it, well almost, the surprise wasn't a big deal & in the end turned out to be a blessing in disguise! So the pickup, it's had the leads cut down to be just long enough to fit into a Stratocaster guard, it was missing the box, and it was also missing the original cover. I guess he wanted black so he sent me two covers with it, one is a typical black Duncan cover with a logo and the other looked like a black Fender cover, until I touched it. I kinda pick @ it & low & behold it spray painted black! That was the surprise BTW?
I was planning on buying some parchment covers, dipping them in coffee to get that old smoky look, & then the neck & middle pickups would match each other. I bought the neck pickup new & it won't be here until Wednesday but I think I've found a solution to my cover problem!
After picking a little more paint off the white cover that had been painted I got out some steal wool and removed about 98% of the paint from the visible part of it & after that I got out some very fine steal wool to polish it up some, but not too much! Once that was done I took about 1 part coffee to 2 parts water and boiled it. This cover is plastic, not parchment, so I had to move it back & forth between the hot coffee & a cold glass of water so it didn't warp or melt?
After getting a little vintage stink on it I took it outside & rubbed it in the mud. Then I brought it back in & rinsed it off with the coffee stain I'd made earlier. By this time I'm thinking this just might work but it needs more? So I lit a cigarette, and then 4, & I proceeded to relic it further. Without having the new one to compare it to its hard to say but I think it actually might work, what do you think?
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