How can I age my historic pickguard?

[Flavum]

Mulder:

That looks EXCELLENT! Nice job! I'm looking across the room at my '02 R8 and getting ideas...

Is that a Washed Cherry or Iced Tea burst? I can't really be sure from the picts. Mine's Iced Tea, and I'm loving it more and more every day. It's very similar to yours, with a tight, even, quarter-sawn stripe pattern (check out #82146 at Wildwood ).

I've got CTS pots and Jensen caps arriving any day now. Not sure if I'm going to splurge on the DMC knobs though.

Congrats! Tom

 

[Burstboy]

Play it for 30 years.:dude

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:lol2

 

[Mulder]

Flamed93+

Thats the 'best' compliment I can think of! Thanks!

I'm still experimenting. I've ordered a 'white' guard and rings from WD and I'll work with them to see if I can get it to look like some of my faves from BOTB. I'm pretty happy with the guard, but I think I want the rings whiter. I'm also going to age all the screws to get a little 'rust' on 'em.

Here's another thing; I took off the jackplate and sanded it down much thinner and squared off the corners and then dyed it to look like an original. It worked out pretty good. I dyed the fingerboard with some black dye from stew-mac to make it look closer to a Brazialian board too.

Heres a recent pic:

Flavum,

I think mine is 'butterscotch'. I have Rolph '57's in there with CTS pots and Tim's Sprauge Black Beauty caps and it sounds fantastic. I 'hand picked' this one out of about 20 from Daves a few months ago.

Buzz, your guard came out really nice too. I was actually going to try the shoe polish after the dye but it looked good enough to me with just the dye.

 

[Jim Barth]

Buzz, did you do amything to the rings or guard before you polished them with the brown Kiwi polish?

In other words did you micromesh them or use polishing compound or #0000 steel wool?

 

[ROCKER67!]

wow!

I'm not going to age any parts any more. i can't believe anyone would age screws. just play and sweat on them. I got so caught up with aging parts, I forgot about playing the guitar. Don't get me wrong I like the look of dulled nickel parts. If want old screws I got a box of old parts to use.

 

[ROCKER67!]

I still believe this to be true. ageing has gotten to the point of being rediculous. I'm not ageing anymore parts. ageing occurs when you play.