Author Topic: Ageing plastic parts (Read 3822 times)

rain_dog · « **on:** June 14, 2007, 01:01:28 AM »

I have a vintage guitar that was once white, but now its pretty much in the cream / yellowish realm. And I bought some cream knobs for it however they are still much whiter than the rest of the guitar, and I was wondering if there were any tricks to getting the knobs to be a little dingier and yellower. I thought of maybe submerging them in a coffee can for a week or wrapping them in wet coffee grinds. But that might make them brown or just look weird. Theres gotta be some easy way to do it though.

Afghan Dave · « **Reply #1 on:** June 14, 2007, 01:31:54 AM »

I think the preferred method is soaking in tea - just don't add milk!

Kilby · « **Reply #2 on:** June 14, 2007, 09:03:41 AM »

Thers an interesting bit about aging pickup covers over on the kinman pickups website

Rob...

rain_dog · « **Reply #3 on:** June 14, 2007, 11:46:49 AM »

http://guitritus.bumlasers.com/

Tea it is! :D

rain_dog · « **Reply #4 on:** June 20, 2007, 10:58:13 AM »

Well 2 days in a cup of hot water with 4 tea bags didnt do a thing. So I tried coffee grinds and that seems to be working slowly but surely

Dennis · « **Reply #5 on:** June 20, 2007, 05:03:22 PM »

You can try to put a cup of salt and a cup of vinegar together, boil it, and put the plastic parts in that mixture!