LP custom 59 60th anniversary royalite binding turning pink

luizhmax · Jan 16, 2020

Hi, the royalite binding on my 3-month-old 60th anniversary custom LP 59 is turning pink at all the areas of pressure: neck and the bottom where it sits on my lap. Is this normal?
Thank you

ChuckNOS · Jan 16, 2020

luizhmax said:
Hi, the royalite binding on my 3-month-old 60th anniversary custom LP 59 is turning pink at all the areas of pressure: neck and the bottom where it sits on my lap. Is this normal?
Thank you

same issue with my 60th R9. I've read the threads someplace that is is common and, BION, historically accurate!!!!

J.D. · Jan 16, 2020

Yes, it's due to the aniline dye in the mahogany pore filler. Normal and historically accurate.

DANELECTRO · Jan 16, 2020

Here's an example of binding bleed on an original 1964 ES-335.

If the Historic Reissue guitars didn't bleed, I guarantee that some of us would be bitching that they don't.

Ace139 · Jan 17, 2020

Good to see it’s still happening. It has happened to every “R9” I’ve owned since ‘99. Latest is a 2015 CC #24 Nicky. Even the bridge PU ring on the bass side somehow has the bleed. Oh well - the guitar still KILLS!

cds1951 · Jan 17, 2020

luizhmax said:
Hi, the royalite binding on my 3-month-old 60th anniversary custom LP 59 is turning pink at all the areas of pressure: neck and the bottom where it sits on my lap. Is this normal?
Thank you

Perfectly normal. If it bugs you like it did me .. have a good tech scrap it off. It looks better to my eye.

luizhmax · Jan 17, 2020

cds1951 said:
Perfectly normal. If it bugs you like it did me .. have a good tech scrap it off. It looks better to my eye.

it does bug me. good to know there's a way to clean it even though i might leave it like that.

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