ageing a scratchplate

mattacjones

well, having discovered some fine wet n dry, I beavered away resulting in an unexpected finish before discovering there was a protective film. Having surmounted that problem, I have tried tea for 48 hours and now purchased some colron! Really like the way Wez has got that additional dirt around the nut on the jack socket. That's awesome 

WezV

Make sure you have some white spirit too.  I garantee you will either buff it all off too soon, or leave it too long and not buff enough on the first go.  

It might take a few attempts to get the look where you want it.  

mattacjones

Tadaah  .... pretty durn close if i say so myself 

WezV

there you go..  

mattacjones

Not that pic posting again! I swear it was there when I did preview!

mattacjones

just testing 

lukedlb

still nothing...

lukedlb

I’m going to do my scratchplate. A light sanding followed by 2 days of tea and coffee, then some boot polish for dirt. 

lukedlb

5 days of coffee/tea did little to the mint green scratchplate or pots, although a nice cream to the pickups and selector.
Next is boot polish.

lukedlb

May I also add that I sanded down the edges on all the pickups from the modern angular edge to the soft vintage edge.
A turquoise crayon to the numbers and letters on the pots should be good. My mate did it on my other strat and it looks very effective.

lukedlb

BTW, when I took off the original 8 hole single ply cream pickguard, I discovered that its original colour was white! I took a look at a photo when I first bought it from my mate and it was indeed white. It seems that the treatment effect needed a few years in sunlight or perhaps that particular plastic doesn't stand up well to sunlight (not that it was ever in direct sunlight).