Copper hardware
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It's probably too soft and absurdly expensive.
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I have looked for this in the past and think it would be very cool... :headbang1:
I had no luck finding any hardware made of copper.
However, your best or only option might be to have some existing hardware copper plated.
I never did check into the price, but there are many places that do this type of work.
Let your fingers do the walking and call around. I am sure you can find a place to copper plate your favorite hardware.
If you take this route, be sure to post pics cuz we all want to see.
Good luck and :rock-on:
I had no luck finding any hardware made of copper.
However, your best or only option might be to have some existing hardware copper plated.
I never did check into the price, but there are many places that do this type of work.
Let your fingers do the walking and call around. I am sure you can find a place to copper plate your favorite hardware.
If you take this route, be sure to post pics cuz we all want to see.
Good luck and :rock-on:
you can strip the nickle and chrome/nickle off steel parts and basically have copper left, or do a total strip and replate in copper. Thats about it. You might find some brass parts that age well. Forget tuners. You cant strip tuners. Too many zinc parts, and they'll go bye-bye as quick as you can say "Horatio Alger". Same thing for some bridge parts. Anything of compression cast zinc (or any type of zinc, zamac, "potmetal" thats usually used in odd bits) is gonna just dissolve.
The reason I ask is that I have a 90 year old banjo with hardware that has turned coppery over the years, and I love that look. Also, there are a number of new guitars out there with copper colored hardware on them, (I've seen several Martins and a bunch of the custom guitars I saw at NAMM had it as well). I would think you would be able to buy the hardware somewhere.
One area to check is places that plate gun parts. The finishes are super thin and tough. Won't give you that "old" look, but I know you could find a company on the net that could do a new copper look. I've lost all my bookmarks that I had saved for a few places back when I used to target shoot, but you could check out 1911forums for some recommendations. Search through the Gunsmithing threads. Bet it wouldn't cost more than $50 to do every piece minus the tuners.
http://forums.1911forum.com/index.php
http://forums.1911forum.com/index.php
jlegnor said:
You cannot plate the existing parts without stripping them. Copper will just about plate itself onto steel in some mild electrolyte, but the battery speeds up the process. Aluminum can be copper plated. Zinc cast parts - nada, to the best of my knowledge.
Hannaugh - that look you saw on the banjo was probably VERY old nickel plated parts. Nickel will get very dark, yellowy and brownish, some purple, as it oxidizes.
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Max said:
Same with brass, which is mostly copper.
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I was thinking the same thing - old nickel. Nickel ages to a nice colour I reckon.
So..... why not go for reliced nickel parts?
anything that is silver, and not chrome (in the guitar world) is nickel
They got nickel tuners, nickel knobs, nickel all sorts of stuff, bridges stop bars jack plates
I've never seen a nickel tele bridge, but I have an idea that the stainless aged glendale is nickel plated stainless
They got nickel tuners, nickel knobs, nickel all sorts of stuff, bridges stop bars jack plates
I've never seen a nickel tele bridge, but I have an idea that the stainless aged glendale is nickel plated stainless
