I posted about wanting to stain my Texas special covers and forum member Double recommended tea. I think it came out really well
I posted about wanting to stain my Texas special covers and forum member Double recommended tea. I think it came out really well
There's a red house over yonder........
Looks cool!
I assume you meant to post this outside the members classifieds since you don't appear to be selling them. Plus, other members can't post replies if you post in there.
Oh sorry, my mistake. Thanks for moving the thread
There's a red house over yonder........
Man! Those lood GREAT! Now, does anyone know how to get that
"Vintage Mind Green" look put on some white plastic? Would you use
green tea?
I prefer more of an Earl Gray look to pickup covers. Although Sleepytime is good too if you play the blooze.
s'all goof.
If you mixed some splenda into it, that would be SWEET!
Music will always find its way to us, with or without business, politics, religion, or any other bull$hit attached. - E.C.
Did you hear the one about the Chief Sitting Bull?
He drank so much tea, they found him dead in his tea pee.
A friend in need is a good reason to screen your calls.
I soaked some knobs in really strong tea for about 12 hours, and it did nothing to them at all. Did you rough them up any beforehand?
SLR
How did you apply this effect? You didn't SOAK them did you? I would think that would kill the pup instantly - but perhaps I'm all wet.
I think he meant the pickup cover...
My Band: Tabula Rasa
"Tea works great"
Yes it does.
That is all.
'Alton Towers - Where the magic never ends', or so the commercial says. Imagine my disappointment when it closed at 7.30
Coffee works pretty good, too. Some covers (the ones made of harder plastic) don't take the pigment so well. The softer, more flexible ones work best.
Be careful with the tea, my friend. It can easily lead to harder stuff.
71818's already trying to get you into the coffee...
:-)
Master of Disaster on the Stratocaster
I tried tea, then coffee on a set of GFS white covers (the aged cream set I bought in addition just looked too cream for me). Neither tea, nor coffee did a thing to them. I wound up using a Q-tip and some brown kiwi shoe polish. Wipe it on, wipe it off with a paper towel, and they came out great. Halfway between white and cream, with subtle variances in the coloring that makes them appear natural.
POO DAT!!!
Hmm, that sounds good. I might try that on my Jag pups.
I hardly start a day without a cup.
But soaking your knobs?
Remind me not to have breakfast with you guys.
I knew there was a reason I went with torotise.
"Well, I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused..."
Elvis Costello
If anyone is going to try shoe polish on plastic, be aware, the kiwi tan has a pinkish (think Gibson's new plastic) tint to it. It works great on satin finished poly necks, but makes plastic ugly.
The brown is good for plastic and bindings, but a little too dark on necks.
Gee, now I've got you to buy two cans of shoe polish. Maybe I should contact Kiwi to see if I could get some kind of commission?
POO DAT!!!
Ha ha, I already had three tins.
I tried the parade gloss and it worked great.
I tried the 'tea' a couple nights ago.
My strat has yellowed pickup covers, I'm assuming naturally, but brand new gleaming white knobs which always kind of looked funny I thought.
Well, now the knobs are brown and the pickups are yeller.
This will be my first and last foray into 'relicing'.
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