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NBD - Fender JMJ Road Worn Mustang!

phillipkregg

phillipkregg

Jun 8, 2010
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Nashville, TN
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I kept going into my local music shop and playing this instrument for 3 weeks straight.

Couldn't take it anymore, and broke down and bought it. Here she is (please excuse my dirty couch)

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I love the tone and playability - but just watch out for that sharp nut LOL

While video taping a practice session I captured the event. Feel free to have a good laugh at my expense:

 
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phillipkregg said:
I kept going into my local music shop and playing this instrument for 3 weeks straight.

Couldn't take it anymore, and broke down and bought it. Here she is (please excuse my dirty couch)

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I love the tone and playability - but just watch out for that sharp nut LOL

While video taping a practice session I captured the event. Feel free to have a good laugh at my expense:

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Lovely bass playing.
 
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So I wanted to share something else with you guys...

I love the look and feel of Fender Custom Shop necks, as well as Nash necks, and I wasn't happy that Fender doesn't do any relic work on the necks of these, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and do my own relic'ing of the neck.

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The neck feels WONDERFUL now and I really dig the super worn look of it.

It's a little more extreme, but fairly close to the Nash-style of neck relic'ing that I was looking for, like this:

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phillipkregg said:
So I wanted to share something else with you guys...

I love the look and feel of Fender Custom Shop necks, as well as Nash necks, and I wasn't happy that Fender doesn't do any relic work on the necks of these, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and do my own relic'ing of the neck.

The neck feels WONDERFUL now and I really dig the super worn look of it.

It's a little more extreme, but fairly close to the Nash-style of neck relic'ing that I was looking for, like this:
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ole Jason said:
What did you use to strip the neck? Did you apply graphite for the coloring?
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Yes, details please! :)
 
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ole Jason said:
What did you use to strip the neck? Did you apply graphite for the coloring?
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NKBassman said:
Yes, details please! :)
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I actually created another post with the details since this thread is a little old, but it's all pretty simple and I can just paste it in here:

To start off with, I used steel wool and a lot of elbow grease to remove the nitro finish from the neck.

Then, after reading a lot of blog posts, watching a lot of YouTube videos, and researching here on TB, I discovered how to coat the neck with very strong black tea - in order to get tannins to soak into the wood. Then I put steel wool into some white vinegar and added a little hydrogen peroxide to kick off the oxidation reaction in the mixture. The main trick is to heat the vinegar in the microwave before putting any steel wool in. That really speeds up the process.

After a few minutes it was pretty much ready to use and the wool/vinegar mixture caused a reaction when it hit the tannins from the tea and gave it a nice, super aged and worn look.​
 
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phillipkregg said:
I actually created another post with the details since this thread is a little old, but it's all pretty simple and I can just paste it in here:

To start off with, I used steel wool and a lot of elbow grease to remove the nitro finish from the neck.

Then, after reading a lot of blog posts, watching a lot of YouTube videos, and researching here on TB, I discovered how to coat the neck with very strong black tea - in order to get tannins to soak into the wood. Then I put steel wool into some white vinegar and added a little hydrogen peroxide to kick off the oxidation reaction in the mixture.

After a few minutes it was pretty much ready to use and the wool/vinegar mixture caused a reaction when it hit the tannins from the tea and gave it a nice, super aged and worn look.​
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Cool. I was thinking it might have been that method.
Did you refinish or otherwise seal the neck after the tea treatment?
 
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NKBassman said:
Cool. I was thinking it might have been that method.
Did you refinish or otherwise seal the neck after the tea treatment?
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I may end up putting some Tru-Oil on it, but what's interesting is that the chemical reaction from the vinegar and steel wool hasn't completely stopped yet.

All this work was done about 3 weeks ago, but the neck looks different now than it did about a week ago. It's gradually getting more faded and slightly lighter, and there are new "grey streaks" here and there that weren't there before.

I'll probably give it a little more time to see what it looks like before I try to seal it with anything.
 
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