Relicing white plastic parts

steversaurus · Post by **steversaurus** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:31 pm

Recently got a new white delrin nut cut for my bass. The only issue is that it's a little too white. What's a good way to relic it to a more yellowish off white colour?

collin · Post by **collin** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 9:54 pm

Scuff it up a little with fine sandpaper (to dull the surfaces) and drop it into a cup of hot black tea for an hour or two. It should stain the parts off-white

winston · Post by **winston** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 11:03 pm

Never tried it, but apparently mustard works..............your instrument might remind you of a hot dog for a while though.

johnhall · Post by **johnhall** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:59 am

I think you'll be really lucky to get anything to stain or stick to Delrin. That's part of acetal plastic's strength and why it's used in many industrial mixing processes and NSF approved in food service equipment.

That being said, I've heard that nicotine does affect Delrin but I leave it up to you to figure out a delivery system.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 12:59 pm

Delrin will not take any sort of color.

BTW, it's "relicking". We don't feature lice here.

steversaurus · Post by **steversaurus** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 2:51 pm

huh.... so i guess natural uv lighting and time is the only way to go. i always thought 'relicking' would be like re-licking, which i suppose is better than lice.

jingle_jangle · Post by **jingle_jangle** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:35 pm

"Relicking" is not like "re-licking". The latter has a hyphen.

captsandwich · Post by **captsandwich** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 7:09 pm

Ever time I see a reference to relicking, I think of the Beachcombers

Only Canadians will understand.

paologregorio · Post by **paologregorio** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:01 pm

steversaurus wrote:huh.... so i guess natural uv lighting and time is the only way to go. i always thought 'relicking' would be like re-licking, which i suppose is better than lice.

I am inclined to read "relicking" that way as well, but as PW has correctly pointed out before, grammatically, the construction is correct, identical in form to other, similar noun-to-verb constructions.

It's also far better than anything to do with lice!

collin · Post by **collin** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 10:56 pm

If nothing can stain Delrin, how about painting it with some tinted laquer--unless It won't take anything to stick to it as JH said.

billydlight · Post by **billydlight** » Sat Jul 16, 2011 8:50 am

Relic'd
Relic'ing

I think there's an apostrophe in there...
Maybe an Umlaut would be better
No wait a tilde ~

I think I prefer "distressed"

bluegrassmoker · Post by **bluegrassmoker** » Mon Jan 16, 2012 12:16 pm

to yellow the paint of any old guitar i was restoring i used tru oil to finish it and it gave the bright white a little bit of tone decrease matching the previous paint coat. i dunno how much it would work for a pickguard.

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