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| Author: | helldunkel [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 2:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | experimental distressed pickup covers! |
So I always wanted to try doing this for fun... You know, abusing some innocent humbuckers and giving them a real distressed battle look!  I purshased a bunch of chrome covers and two cheap economy pickups... After a few epic failure attempts using various corrosion techniques, I finally came up with these two results So after shooting a coat of 2K to protect the covers, I then re assembled the cheap economy pickups... Here are the bad ass results 
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| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 8:35 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
Cool! These look to me more like "corrosion art" than "aging" or "relic'ing" Is that the intention? |
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| Author: | Mad Raxz [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:19 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
Yeah!!! Cool man!!! 
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| Author: | jimmysux [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 9:57 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
Muriatic acid plus a red scotch-brite?? |
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| Author: | Stuart Gort [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
I like the basic look a lot but I'd like it better if there was a way to get it without the scratch marks. There's a "forced" look to it with the scratches. |
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| Author: | Chris Pile [ Wed Sep 21, 2011 11:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
Sorry - they do nothing for me. |
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| Author: | jimmysux [ Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:49 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
I like them a lot. I would rather have something like that, than the way a PRS nickel coatings tarnish and look half dull half shiny. PRS has some horrible nickel plating, I have never seen another manufacturers plating degrade or break down so fast. 6 months into playing your guitar it looks like the bridge and pickups have been on there 15 years. |
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| Author: | helldunkel [ Thu Sep 22, 2011 1:57 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
jimmysux wrote: Muriatic acid plus a red scotch-brite?? The main ingredient is repeated bathes of Hydrochloric acid... Using various sandpaper grits... theguitarwhisperer wrote: Cool! These look to me more like "corrosion art" than "aging" or "relic'ing" Is that the intention? Corrosion Art, now that sounds really cool Relic'ing does not mean anything to me and I always found really stupid that guitar manufactures started using that word , here is why....  Quote: In religion, a relic is a part of a body of a saint or a venerated person, or else another type of ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration, or as a tangible memorial. Relics are an important aspect of some forms of Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Shamanism, and many other religions. The word relic comes from the Latin reliquiae, meaning "remains" or "something left behind" (the same root as relinquish). A reliquary is a shrine that houses one or more religious relics. are we talking about the remains of the bacterias who got caught inside the lacquer finish of the instrument? Zlurgh wrote: I like the basic look a lot but I'd like it better if there was a way to get it without the scratch marks. There's a "forced" look to it with the scratches. Without the scratches it would be very hard to obtain the Verdigris... But the scratches are also part of the looks and what you call the forced look Here is another finish without scratches from SP Custom pickups... And my signature pickups made by SP Custom with scratches...
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| Author: | theguitarwhisperer [ Thu Sep 22, 2011 9:58 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
I dunno, the "ancient religious object, carefully preserved for purposes of veneration" aspect seems to apply to these vintage instruments, heh heh! I like the look of the Helldunkel's with the distressed part surrounded by the chrome. |
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| Author: | Stuart Gort [ Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:32 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: experimental distressed pickup covers! |
Those second two are better. I like the "Helladunkel" best. You know what you need to do now?....Make a guitar with a finish like the photographic background you used on those pics. 
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