And a bit of offset porn for those intersted
I like patina and wear on my guitars. This is a faded pink JM and has been my main everything guitar for the past 6-7 years.
It has a JL telemaster bridge PUP and a JL hot JM neck PUP. It does everything youd want a JM to do include tip over where ever you lean it.
The only thing it hasnt done is cevelop anything more than the very faintest of finish checking.
So the other night I started on a four day crusade to get some checking to happen.
I stripped the body and popped it in the freezer over night. The neck morning I was pretty dissapointed to see that not much had happened. As it sat out it started to get condensation on it so I popped it in the hot airing cupboard for the day. That night I repeated the freezer process.
The nect morning it had developed very nice checking lines! Success!....err no...as soon as it warmed up they all but disapeared. I figured they were so fine and the colour so light that they were just closing up again. So I did the same thing again but the next morning while it was still frozen cold (and there fore had open cracks) I massaged wet espresso grounds firmly into the finish.
The headstock was even more resistant to my advances, and a whole can of compressed air dust spray later still looked shop new. That too took a couple of days of rotating between hot and cold to get the fissures to remain patent.
And here is the end result
