How to prevent it from happening? I know its going to take quite awhile, but is there anyway to prevent that from happening at all?
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white bass turning yellow?
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Why would you want to? It's called patina!
In all seriousness though, I'd imagines wiping it down every time after you play would help fight it off a bit. White picks up everything so keeping it as clean as possible is a must.
In all seriousness though, I'd imagines wiping it down every time after you play would help fight it off a bit. White picks up everything so keeping it as clean as possible is a must.
Don't sweat on it. Don't EVER let smoke get around it. Don't put it in any direct sunlight, in fact, I'd probably only play it in a room that is windowless...that is, if you make sure you wear rubber gloves, wait, rubber could discolor it too...
In fact, send it to me, I have a perfect, smoke-free cave in my backyard with no lights where it will be safe to remain the beautiful white color it was intended to be!
In fact, send it to me, I have a perfect, smoke-free cave in my backyard with no lights where it will be safe to remain the beautiful white color it was intended to be!
Back around 1979 I use to have a white MusicMan Stingray. It didn't stay white for very long because I was playing full time, five night a week in bars. The combination of sweat and smoke really started giving that bass some character, to put it mildly.
I'll never forget one weekend in particular. Hot, hot and very muggy which of course made it even hotter indoors (the clubs AC wasn't working very well) and it was sweat city onstage. Anyway, one night I wore a blue shirt and the next night I wore a read shirt. I had these shirts for a while and they'd both been washed many, many times. After that weekend the back of my bass was stained with blue and red!
I'll never forget one weekend in particular. Hot, hot and very muggy which of course made it even hotter indoors (the clubs AC wasn't working very well) and it was sweat city onstage. Anyway, one night I wore a blue shirt and the next night I wore a read shirt. I had these shirts for a while and they'd both been washed many, many times. After that weekend the back of my bass was stained with blue and red!
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theres nothing you can do...light turns the (clear) lacquer yellow over time. Keeping it clean, etc will do nothing to help. The same thing happens to every color, its just more noticable on white
never take it out of its case?
never take it out of its case?
Storing it in a darkened room/closet and taking it out to play would prolong its whiteness, i'd imagine.
Try to keep it out of sunlight as much as possible, but when it gets too yellow for you, have it refinished in Poly, as Poly will not age as fast as Nitro.
That's nothin', my black 75 P bass has actually turned green from years of being played in smokey bars, etc...the equivalent of a vintage white bass turning yellow, I've heard. It's really just the clear coat on top aging.
I don't think there is anything you can do to stop the bass from changing color - its something in the paint and whatever was used to seal the paint. I've attached a photo of my mid 1960s Jazz Bass - while its called Olympic White its as Yellow as Yellow Can Be. In fact, when I bought it in 1977, it had already turned color.
Don't use any abrasive cleaners on it either, that can cause miniscule scratches which will hold dirt and grime in there.
I love the way they look aged and yellowed. Get to that vanilla pudding color. Ah, lovely.
Otherwise keep it clean and out of sunlight.
Otherwise keep it clean and out of sunlight.
