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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.

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

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?

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?