How can I do it? I don't want to wait 40years of solid playing, I want it NOW!
How can I do it? Rub through with sand paper and rub some used engine oil into the bare bits, thats the advice I was given by a so called guiter expert. Is this true???
How can I do it? I don't want to wait 40years of solid playing, I want it NOW!
How can I do it? Rub through with sand paper and rub some used engine oil into the bare bits, thats the advice I was given by a so called guiter expert. Is this true???
I suggest painting it white with a red "X" on it. :lol
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Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
dohh, try this then...................
Interesting, but that wear looks fake.
Maybe some steel wool, rubbed with something sort of pointy, like the eraser on the butt end of a pencil.
Several guitars in different colors
Things to make them fuzzy
Things to make them louder
orange picks
You'll only manage it if the neck is a thin nitro finish, but it can be done to look authentic with a sharp scraper type thing, then the edges and finish blended with grades of steel wool (take the neck off the guitar for the steel wool bit). Please don't use used engine oil, its carcinogenic. The bare wood will dirty up on its own.
thanks, I'll just go put the Duckhams back on the shelf.
You'll never get it to look worn naturally with a polyurethane finished fretboard. Your best bet is to buy a nitro-finished fretboard a la Eric Johnson, and then start playing the hell out of it. From what I understand, those old nitro necks wore pretty quickly.
My MIM strat neck started getting that type of wear pretty quickly.
If I played it like I do my Tele, it would be there by now.
40 years, pah!
I have a polyurethane neck that's worn pretty good. Just let your fingernails grow a little long, the play a lot of blues licks with bends. And bend downward! You'll have those proud scrapes going after a few weeks!
But that top picture looks totally fake. On a real played-in neck, the worn patches run parellel to the frets, not parallel to the strings.
That picture has been bugging me, and I have it pegged now.
It's shot with a wide angle lens, so the neck looks bent.
On the original subject....My neck is kinda worn, you can see how worn if you look at photoweboramas home page, and it was easy to achive. Just play it, and don't pussy foot around, put in some effort on the notes and it will wear the neck rather quickly.
play bigger strings.
Super-glue some abrasive grit to your finger-tips -- just an idea. I don't know if it would work. Used engine oil is too black.
can someone post a picture of a natural worn maple neck? please?
Theres one at the top of the page!
no sh!t! I posted it.
but some reckon thats not a natural looking worn neck??
"I want my neck to look like this one..."
One question - Why? What is the reason you like it worn out looking?
"No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim
Originally Posted by LeeJ
Look at the very top of the page! Not your post!
I see your new here so some words of advice...You need to learn to have some respect and not be an asshole just pointing out the top of every page has the green strat with a well played fretboard..
I`ve gotten my wrists slapped for less than that here!!
CT.:ahem
You should take you own advice. Play nice or pay the price.
Melody - word of advice, you've obviously been here longer than me therefore your a more senior poster on here. Try make your posts a little clearer in future then we wouldn't have little misunderstandings resulting in offensive replies, asshole.
Newbe's!:troll
Patronising old farts :rofl
Ok.. here is my take....
What do I do to keep my neck from looking like the one in the first post? :hee
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Stop scratching it with 120 grit sandpaper ??
I dont know, I love the worn look on a maple neck.
Follow juniorspecial's advice. You'll get there -- unless your neck is caked in poly. The really thick finishes seem to never wear, which is the point, I'm sure. If it is, maybe you then replace it with a neck finished in thin nitro? Or, maybe play with banjo finger picks?
LeeJ & Melody. Cool it.
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Yeah, assholes!
(kidding, Fezz.
Besides, the prefered term around here is
s'all goof.
How can I do it? I don't want to wait 40years of solid playing, I want it NOW!
How can I do it? Rub through with sand paper and rub some used engine oil into the bare bits, thats the advice I was given by a so called guiter expert. Is this true???
Hi there: I like that fingerboard (to each their own), but unless you maybe practice on another neck, I would rather advise to send it to a pro who does "relicing" work. For instance, one of our Forum paid dealers/advertisers like RS Guitarworks--but they're in the US, perhaps someone knows of a service closer to you (but I can tell you these guys are very well liked and the trip or shipping would be worth it!). Good luck whatever you decide.
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