tinting pickups (JB)

[i7bernardo]

I´ve bought a white JB for my HSS american deluxe strat 04', with aged white pickguard (very aged!). The white colour of the pickup doesn´t look good at all in it.
Does anybody know if I can tint the pickup somehow?
Any other ideas to match my pickguard colour?

Thanks

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I went through this trying to "age" some white Allparts tuner buttons on one of my old LP Jrs. Dipping it in coffee was suggested to me- but I don't think that's much of an option for you. No idea how permanent it might be, but perhaps lightly applying brown shoe polish.

Better yet, check out the Les Paul Forum and do a search for aging plastic.

 

[Luke Duke]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

Just an FYI, in the future I'd post my questions in just one forum room, if you are needing to delete one and change the room delete your first post in the thread to delete it.

Luke

 

[bryvincent]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

light brown shoe polish.

 

[Kamanda~SD]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I posted in the other forum.

 

[Mephis]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

Piss on it.

 

[Ez74]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

they make decals you can put on your pickup... someone around here has used them

 

[Guest]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I have no real experience on this but I've seen this come up a few times in another forum.

You can use cigarrete smoke to make it look older. Get a similar plastic and expose to test until you get it right, I think its quite permanent.

Just make shure the plastic is not flammable, I doubt it, after all the pup is waxed and I doubt that SD would risk any accidents. Also let some other people give other ideas or confirm the results of this method.

 

[Blue Calx]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I've heard that soaking it in coffee works... but then again, I can't remember in which context I heard this because soaking an entire pickup in a cup of coffee sounds to me like a very bad idea. I think it's supposed to apropriately stain the plastic bobbin, though. Can anyone expand on this, please?

 

[Guest]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

Blue Calx, it would work. But in this case it has some problems. From what I hear it works for tuning keys, pots and switch caps if bernardo is interrested in altering these.

 

[mnbaseball91]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I've never tried this, but what about that "vintage tinted laquer" that reranch sells. Could you spray some of that over the bobins?

 

[big_black]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I would go with the shoe polish. I tried in vain to tint a Gibson truss rod cover last winter using coffee. It did not work. Ironically alot of the plastics they use today are design to RESIST yellowing...but that's what everyone wants!

 

[Guest]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

expose it to ALOT of nicotine...though that still would take all too long :sad: maybe there's somekind of acid, customshop still yellows white plastic, don't they?

 

[The Golden Boy]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

I would go with the shoe polish. I tried in vain to tint a Gibson truss rod cover last winter using coffee. It did not work. Ironically alot of the plastics they use today are design to RESIST yellowing...but that's what everyone wants!

I mentioned I tried that with some Allparts tuner buttons. It looked nice (and smelled of coffee), but it wore off right away.

 

[MDS]

Re: tinting pickups (JB)

How about the microwave?!?!? Just KIDDING! (the scene in Gremlins where they throw the one gremlin in the microwave just leaped to mind!)