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PW, i've got this white Fender Jazz pickguard here and i'm wondering if there's some kind of aging process I could do myself? To save me the trouble of buying a whole 'nother pickguard - I want it to look like one of Fender's "mint green" pickguards.

I could have sworn I read somewhere that tea bags could somehow be used to "help along" the aging process, but now that I think of it, the tea bags may have been used to help "dirty-up" maple fretboards.

Anyway, any suggestions?

I'll stay on the clean side with my comments on this...the tea bags are useful in aging anything that will absorb the color...depending upon the material of the guard, it will be capable of being dyed, but generally not with anything water-based, in my experience. Genuine celluloid will absorb RIT dye (you could try one of their greens) but if the guard is ABS plastic, like most these days, it will be an exercise in futility. Alcohol-based dyes can be used, but you'd have to experiment on a sample first, to get the color right.

Best find a replacement in mint green, JB. But should you decide to experiment, we'd love to hear about it!

jingle_jangle wrote:Alcohol-based dyes can be used,

Would that be by using peppermint schnapps?!