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so i traded my 06 MG to 91 jetglo.
the binding is kind if yellow cream. which i like. is looks old and nice.
but i wand to know - is it original color of the binding or it like this because the time?
in most of the jetglos the binding looks shiny white.
the other parts - like the chrome parts look pretty shiny and new.

The top coat of the finish yellows over time but you don't see that well with JG but the binding shows the effect of this; all is normal. You will also note that the fingerboard inlays are yellowish. The TRC and pickguard don't yellow as they do not have this clearcoat on them.

If the clear coat yellowing is very strong, it can cause a shift in the jetglo toward green. Some jetglo instruments can look dark green as a result of this.

kiramdear wrote:If the clear coat yellowing is very strong, it can cause a shift in the jetglo toward green. Some jetglo instruments can look dark green as a result of this.

"The coat is strong with this one", or something like that!

Clear coat yellowing also explains why so many Blue Boy instruments appear now as Mint Green.

I find it quite attractive unless the yellowing is very uneven from place to place. But I like checking too, so YMMV. Seriously, I think it looks great on your bass.

Amber Fireglo guitars and basses (Color of the Year for 2006) had artificially yellowed binding and inlays.

My very first RIC bass, an early 70's neck throo JG 4000, was,at only a few years age,yellowed enough that it looked like a deep lagoon green in person. The fact that it had had the white pg replaced with a black one seemed to help bring out that green color,too. Wish i still had it!

woodyng wrote:...a deep lagoon green...

Algaeglo?

I would like to know how much of natural yellowing is due to UV light and how much ido the result of other environmental influences such as tobacco smoke. I ask this because of the uneven yellowing of the binding on one of my instruments with greater yellowing on body than the neck. If it is all about sunlight why the difference.p?

P.S. It might help if I added that I am not a chemistry major. But a friend who is took a white guitar knob and bombarded it with the equivalent of more than years of UV. He returned it to me pure white just as he had received it.

There are better ways to age plastic knobs.

Thanks Ilan, for this approach that speaks volumes.

An acquaintance tells me to put the knob in a bottle with a tiny drop of crazy glue, close it tight and watch the magic.

admin wrote:... An acquaintance tells me to put the knob in a bottle with a tiny drop of crazy glue, close it tight and watch the magic.

Was the friend trying to lift latent fingerprints?

Yes, and I now I am stuck with a mystery too.

admin wrote:An acquaintance tells me to put the knob in a bottle with a tiny drop of crazy glue, close it tight and watch the magic.

All my basses have black knobs but I should try this just for fun. I think I have a spare white Strat knob somewhere.

Ilan,

Thanks for the link. That is just the ticket. I have wanted to age one Fender knob for a while now since the volume knob on one of my guitars cracked and I had to replace it with a new cream coloured one.