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Hello, I have a hofner 500/1 bass, and in the past 2 years there is progressive corrosion of its metal parts. Screws got rusted, pickups and tail became green. Replaced the screws and polished the pickups and tail, but now it's coming back. Any suggestions? Some kind of coating maybe? Thanks.

You're all right, I know for sure that nothing I do won't get me even close to the real thing, so I'm not aiming for 100% here. I'll go for Fon Klar's suggestion which is the easiest way to do it, and try to get the reissue in a few years.

Thanks, Not that talented, actually I'm an awfull painter...I left the paint job to one of the carpenters in town. Didn't quite understand what you meant, do you mean I should paint a stripe with yellowish color around the body?

Here's a real hard one...I need some help on a problem I just can't solve for some weeks... I'm customising my red Fender HW1 Telecaster to look like the famous "Rosewood Telecaster" George Harrison played (Please Google that if you want to see what I mean). New reissues are priced for 4200$USD. I stripped the red paint off the body. Now I plan to paint it to rosewood color and then to use coats of polyurethane lacquer. So far it's easy. The problem is, that the real rosewood Tele body is made of two plates of rosewood with a thin maple layer between them (like a sandwitch...) and to mimic that, I want to make a natural color wood inlay all around the body, about 4mm wide. Can't do the inlay before painting the body - it will paint the inlay too... Can't do the inlay after painting the body - polishing the inlay will damage the rosewood paint... I could give up on the inlay thing, but I'm still optimistic. The answer must be somewhere...!!! but where??? Please Help.