therev Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 i would like to age my squier maple neck and i would like to know what i have to do to get it ready for staining? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wood is good Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 Sand it till there is no more finish on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 nooo...for aging you don't stain the wood,you stain the finish... Some people use shoe polish...but you need to research relicing... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 http://www.projectguitar.com/tut/vinneck.htm Davek disagrees with me...but I fail to see how it will work...some pics of his finishe product might have been nice. Alexvdl reliced one very well a while back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 I did some research for you...here is what little I found the question was asked "how did you relic that neck?"(asked of butnut) Hey Ace. I used a lacquer 'toner' spray...very much like RR neck amber. It's yellowish and I used a medium brown toner over that to darken up the yellow. Shot nitro and used my Xacto to scrape off the 'fret wear', using a light and medium wood 'touch up pen, I darkened the scraped areas. All hardware was aged using ferous chloride. Canuk, a lot of Tele players like the 'suicide' switch....makes it easy to do volume swells with your pinky. All original Esquires and RI Tele's come wired with the 3 way...the positions are tone pot in, tone pot out, and a 'bass' setting through a resistor...slight differences in tone. I was gonna make a 2 knob plate, but I kinda like the 3way now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therev Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 well this is a squier 51 which is a popular guitar to mod (my first attempt at modding). all i want to do is age it a little just to get a little darker color. i don't care if it's perfect i just want it to look good to the average person. so you think i could use shoe polish over the finish and then seal it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therev Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 I did some research for you...here is what little I found the question was asked "how did you relic that neck?"(asked of butnut) Hey Ace. I used a lacquer 'toner' spray...very much like RR neck amber. It's yellowish and I used a medium brown toner over that to darken up the yellow. Shot nitro and used my Xacto to scrape off the 'fret wear', using a light and medium wood 'touch up pen, I darkened the scraped areas. All hardware was aged using ferous chloride. Canuk, a lot of Tele players like the 'suicide' switch....makes it easy to do volume swells with your pinky. All original Esquires and RI Tele's come wired with the 3 way...the positions are tone pot in, tone pot out, and a 'bass' setting through a resistor...slight differences in tone. I was gonna make a 2 knob plate, but I kinda like the 3way now. good info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
westhemann Posted March 22, 2009 Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 No I doubt it...I would research relicing on google and such...I refreshed my memory with some past topics and the shoe polish I believe was mostly used on pickgaurds and such... but I know nobody ever cleared over it...some guys said they took steel wool to it... relicing is tough...it's an art,so research before you just start sanding away.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
therev Posted March 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2009 No I doubt it...I would research relicing on google and such...I refreshed my memory with some past topics and the shoe polish I believe was mostly used on pickgaurds and such... but I know nobody ever cleared over it...some guys said they took steel wool to it... relicing is tough...it's an art,so research before you just start sanding away.. thanks, i'll do some more searching today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
factory5150 Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 Even shoe polish on pick guards is a waste of time. It will eventually fade from the sun or wear off from you touching it. Airbrushing some "amber'd" lacquer onto the pick guard is the best way to go. As for tinting and aging the neck. Its best to spray the toned lacquer onto the neck rather rubbing concentrated stain. After all the sun is what changed the color of the clear coat. The old necks were never "orange" from the beginning, time did that to them. After your neck is sprayed you can mark the spots in between the strings and gently use a dremel with a wire wheel on it to wear through the paint. The fast way to make it look old is to mix up some sort of stain that mimics a dirty fingerboard. Or you can wait and let the natural oil and finger gunk wear into the exposed wood, but that could take a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted March 25, 2009 Report Share Posted March 25, 2009 I disagree with the concept of adding something during an artificial relicing exercise, unless that something is what would collect over time (bottles of fermented sweat and gunk would sell well here). I think a good relic should have the natural processes accelerated as opposed to mimicked by unnatural processes like amber clearing. I guess it depends on whether you want a "real" relic or a faux-relic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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