AlexVDL
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- May 29, 2003
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Out of frustration I stained my dimarzio rings again. I sanded them back to white and started all over. Now I have the retrovibes I can compare the color much better. I noticed that with the stewmac vintage amber stain the rings get too yellow. It needs more brown. Maybe a brown stain works better on white plastics.
Anyways I used some brown shoe polish this time. Now the color comes pretty close. I just can't get it exactly, but it's good enough. I guess I'll have to apply some clear finish before I install the rings, because the shoe polish will wear off pretty quick as stated earlier by others.
Here's the stained Dimarzio rings compared to a set of allparts rings. The allparts are very pink:
Here's the Dimarzio's compared to the Retrovibes:
Anyways I used some brown shoe polish this time. Now the color comes pretty close. I just can't get it exactly, but it's good enough. I guess I'll have to apply some clear finish before I install the rings, because the shoe polish will wear off pretty quick as stated earlier by others.
Here's the stained Dimarzio rings compared to a set of allparts rings. The allparts are very pink:
Here's the Dimarzio's compared to the Retrovibes: