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06-01-2010, 07:54 AM
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So I used the lipstick method to fit my new bridge - worked great, and clearly showed the flaws of using sandpaper to fit the bridge. The lipstick wiped off easily from the bass, but not so well from the raw wood of the bridge. How do you get it off? Further scraping? I didn't want to risk altering the perfectly fitted bridge feet, so I just did my best wiping the bright red off, but some of it stayed. It's not visible unless you take the bridge off, so no biggie to me. But if I did want to clean it off, what do you use? Naphtha? Mineral spirits? Make up remover?
George
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06-01-2010, 08:19 AM
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06-01-2010, 08:20 AM
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Originally Posted by Gearhead43  Eyeliner. | Around the heart I assume? |
06-01-2010, 09:46 AM
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Originally Posted by George700DL So I used the lipstick method to fit my new bridge - worked great, and clearly showed the flaws of using sandpaper to fit the bridge. The lipstick wiped off easily from the bass, but not so well from the raw wood of the bridge. How do you get it off? Further scraping? I didn't want to risk altering the perfectly fitted bridge feet, so I just did my best wiping the bright red off, but some of it stayed. It's not visible unless you take the bridge off, so no biggie to me. But if I did want to clean it off, what do you use? Naphtha? Mineral spirits? Make up remover?
George | Hmm - I use lipstick but for me the process of fitting the feet removes the coloured parts - that's the main idea, right?  If the wood has been dyed by the pigment that's not really a problem George. Only you will know.
I bought cheap lipstick once and couldn't stand the way it made the shop smell like a Holiday Inn Lounge... |
06-01-2010, 09:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Jake deVilliers Hmm - I use lipstick but for me the process of fitting the feet removes the coloured parts - that's the main idea, right? | Well yeah - until the step where the entire foot is covered in lipstick, indicating a near 100% fit. At that point, I don't really want to be doing too much scraping where wood comes off. <--- this may be an OCD symptom.
I did a very light scraping to get most of the pigment out, but there are still traces of red. I played it safe and after wiping it down with towel I left it alone. Quote: |
If the wood has been dyed by the pigment that's not really a problem George. Only you will know.
| Yeah, just me. And you. And the entire TB community now  Quote: |
I bought cheap lipstick once and couldn't stand the way it made the shop smell like a Holiday Inn Lounge...
| I just "borrowed" one.
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06-01-2010, 10:18 AM
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06-01-2010, 10:22 AM
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Originally Posted by DallasStrings | Yeah, it wasn't easy. |
06-01-2010, 10:44 AM
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I shouldn't come into the luthier's section. I don't really want to know how the sausage is made.
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06-01-2010, 09:54 PM
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Originally Posted by TroyK I don't really want to know how the sausage is made. | Kind of like gut strings I guess. |
06-02-2010, 08:30 AM
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Originally Posted by TroyK Well, you me look.
I shouldn't come into the luthier's section. I don't really want to know how the sausage is made. | Hey TROIKA, did you leave an important word out of that sentence fragment?  A word like 'made'? |
06-02-2010, 08:39 AM
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Originally Posted by DallasStrings | Good luck with that. This *is* TB, after all. Now I think I know why Pee Dub looked so constricted in this pic: 
Resistance appears to be futile. Or at least painful. OTOH, he's managed to stay away until now, so maybe there's something to the scrunchy-grinch-face thing after all? |
06-02-2010, 08:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Boston | | | Try acetone. That usually eliminates the lipstick stain. Also broken glass makes a great scrapper if you have to scrape it off. After put Linseed oil on the bridge and leave it in the sun. That should give it a nice golden color and make any lip stick less visible. |
06-03-2010, 03:38 AM
| | | | just ask your girlfriend to put her lips on your bridge |
06-03-2010, 05:58 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald Good luck with that. This *is* TB, after all. Now I think I know why Pee Dub looked so constricted in this pic:
Resistance appears to be futile. Or at least painful. OTOH, he's managed to stay away until now, so maybe there's something to the scrunchy-grinch-face thing after all? | That appears to be Keystone or "Natty" light in that washtub next to him. I was right about the bitter beer face!  |
06-03-2010, 07:12 AM
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06-03-2010, 07:15 AM
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Originally Posted by George700DL So I used the lipstick method to fit my new bridge - worked great, and clearly showed the flaws of using sandpaper to fit the bridge. The lipstick wiped off easily from the bass, but not so well from the raw wood of the bridge. How do you get it off? Further scraping? I didn't want to risk altering the perfectly fitted bridge feet, so I just did my best wiping the bright red off, but some of it stayed. It's not visible unless you take the bridge off, so no biggie to me. But if I did want to clean it off, what do you use? Naphtha? Mineral spirits? Make up remover?
George | I used a Hot Pink from Revlon. Wiping it off the best I could with a damp rag gave the raw wood a pinkish glow. Kinda sexy, I think.
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06-03-2010, 07:21 AM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald Good luck with that. This *is* TB, after all. Now I think I know why Pee Dub looked so constricted in this pic:
Resistance appears to be futile. Or at least painful. OTOH, he's managed to stay away until now, so maybe there's something to the scrunchy-grinch-face thing after all? | DURRL, you Jerk. You KNEW I couldn't avoid a Thread with a header that reads "How to clean lipstick from the........." 
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06-03-2010, 07:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton DURRL, you Jerk. You KNEW I couldn't avoid a Thread with a header that reads "How to clean lipstick from the........." | ..and that is one of the cleaner subject lines that I came up with.
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06-03-2010, 08:00 AM
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Originally Posted by Paul Warburton DURRL, you Jerk. You KNEW I couldn't avoid a Thread with a header that reads "How to clean lipstick from the........." | Guilty as charged, YOUR ORNERY. On the positive side, you made a very memorable face while trying to resist. |
06-03-2010, 01:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Chris Fitzgerald Guilty as charged, YOUR ORNERY. | Oh, Goody.
Another lame, Jive-ass TB Nnick Nname to have to live with. 
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