How to age pickguards/bodies?

[Nando Vallart]

Hey! Have anyone here experience in make pickguards look aged??
http://www.bareknucklepickups.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2525

And how to "destroy" the paint like the Strat who Wyliee show us:
http://www.unofficialwarmoth.com/index.php?topic=266.0
:icon_biggrin:

 

[Kostas]

Look at this http://www.kinman.com/html/toneWorkshop/perfectGuitar.htm#pickupCovers he explains how to age pickup covers!

 

[jackthehack]

There are a number of different ways to "relic" a guitar, most typically it involves using sandpaper on areas that typically experience wear points, beating the hell out of the back with a metal belt buckle, smacking the guitar with full keychains or other metal objects to create dents/chips, and putting the body in the freezer then hitting it with a hair dryer to force cracks/checkering of the finish. Tying a string through one of the neck bolt holes and dragging down a gravel road behind a car is a quick way.  Google "electric guitar relicing" and you'll find all kinds of ideas.

PLEASE tell you WILL NOT try to relic that Splated Maple Tele body you're doing a project with; we'll send Warmoth goons down to take it away from you until you come to your senses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

 

[Nando Vallart]

:laughing3: :toothy10:
Yes, it's in the Spalted Maple Tele I was talking about....













I'm kiding, not even in hell with devil kicking my ass I'll do something like that in this guitar! :laughing11: :laughing7:
Thank you for the answers! ccasion14:

 

[TheCragon]

i heard about laying the pickguard in coffee over night to make it look aged.

 

[Alfang]

Here's another idea for aging guitars,  First, you get a guitar,  then you wait, 25 years from now it will be aged.

Or was it the neglected look your going for? 

John

 

[TheCragon]

First, you get a guitar,  then you wait, 25 years from now it will be aged.

But will it look aged?

 

[Nando Vallart]

Here's another idea for aging guitars,  First, you get a guitar,  then you wait, 25 years from now it will be aged.

Or was it the neglected look your going for? 

John

Hehehehehehehehehe :laughing3:
To many years! I'm 22 years old, so it looks like FOREVER to me! :laughing7:
I like the neglected look more than just "old".... "old" is cool, "almost-destroied" is very sexy!