When to apply a finish protectant to a new Rick?

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:47 am

Why would anyone want to do this, Elys, when the .007 film thickness is optimum for max gloss and protection?

Thicker is not better in this case.

Re: "kaolin". It is commonly anglicized with a long "a", as American English arrogantly supercedes and homogenizes language to remove foreign influences.

In Chinese it means something like "high ridge", which name was given to the first location where it was mined.

Pronounce it incorrectly, though (there are six pronunciations, I've heard) and you get "stale horse" and "the short tail of a paramecium".

Just kidding there...

One of my favorite American corruptions is the commonly-used (by American political bodies) "sine die". Latin literally "without a day", meaning "to be readjourned at an unspecified future date" in this context.

Proper Latin pronunciation is "see-nay dee-ay". Nut American legislators pronounce it "sine-ee-digh".

Go figure.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 5:48 am

It was supposed to be "But American legislators..." in the second-to-last paragraph above.

But I like the typo better.

j_gary · Post by **j_gary** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:17 am

Paul, it sure made sense to me on my first read.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 7:44 am

elysrand · Post by **elysrand** » Sat Apr 07, 2007 12:59 pm

Har de har har!

(You will see no politics from me here, since that would run afoul of Peter's Policies!)

But I do get a little over 1/8-inch of bridge-lift at the thought of putting banana juice, cocoanut juice, almond powder, Vitamin E and aloe vera gel onto my Rick

Regardless, if Paul (with a straight face) can feed his Rick finishes with all those nuts and fruits in Zymol, then so can I

Sure does smell good, though, wonder if it tastes good too?

squirebass · Post by **squirebass** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:04 am

Paul,
This is probably one question for a thread of its own, but I'd like to know more about the differences between conversion varnish (or whatever modern Rickenbackers are finished with) and the Nitrocelluolose finishs of old and reissue Fenders and Gibsons. The Rick finish is much thicker, but on my 1993 4001v63, which has seen a lot of playing time, the finish is still nearly perfect. Only a few places around the frets has it chipped off or worn noticeably. The chrome on the horseshoe is really worn, but the finish just keeps going and going.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Mon Apr 09, 2007 8:52 am

Yeah, this should be moved into the Reflections topic area at this point, so I'm going to start a thread over there, with a quote of your question and save Peter the trouble.

Now, as Dr. Clauson says, back to out regularly-scheduled program...