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Thin CA is available in model shops, its fucking great stuff!
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Route out the cracks even more and turn it into one of those epoxy filled table top things?!??!
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jeremyb wrote: Sat Mar 06, 2021 4:29 pm Route out the cracks even more and turn it into one of those epoxy filled table top things?!??!
Like it's made of 400 trillion year old swamp Kauri like a Langcaster!
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Working on 3 amps at the same time. Will most likely finish it mid April.

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Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
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robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
I believe the original pink that Fender used in the 60s was quite bright. You only see yellowed/faded versions of it around now of course. So NOS might be a bit more vivid, if that is what you want.

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olegmcnoleg wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:00 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
I believe the original pink that Fender used in the 60s was quite bright. You only see yellowed/faded versions of it around now of course. So NOS might be a bit more vivid, if that is what you want.
Yeah I'm leaning on the more vivid side of things. Pleasing Pink is the closest that I can find to the 1960s Dupont colour Shell Pink.
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robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:04 am
olegmcnoleg wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:00 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
I believe the original pink that Fender used in the 60s was quite bright. You only see yellowed/faded versions of it around now of course. So NOS might be a bit more vivid, if that is what you want.
Yeah I'm leaning on the more vivid side of things. Pleasing Pink is the closest that I can find to the 1960s Dupont colour Shell Pink.
I like it.

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olegmcnoleg wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:22 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:04 am
olegmcnoleg wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:00 am

I believe the original pink that Fender used in the 60s was quite bright. You only see yellowed/faded versions of it around now of course. So NOS might be a bit more vivid, if that is what you want.
Yeah I'm leaning on the more vivid side of things. Pleasing Pink is the closest that I can find to the 1960s Dupont colour Shell Pink.
I like it.
Same. Unfortunately my paint supplier has a more limited selection. The vivid pinks are reeeeally vivid. Have gone for a more pale option, close to what Fender Custom Shop are using at the moment for their reliced instruments.
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robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
They all look like calamine lotion to me.
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Slowy wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:26 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
They all look like calamine lotion to me.
Could just apply a thin layer of calamine lotion and then spray clear nitro over top?
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I have an mjt Strat body that I got off the forum. Finished in a pink closer to the original DuPont. I’ve been aging it in the sun for the last two years to tone it down. Almost there...

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olegmcnoleg wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:33 am I have an mjt Strat body that I got off the forum. Finished in a pink closer to the original DuPont. I’ve been aging it in the sun for the last two years to tone it down. Almost there...
Yeah my recent blue Tele Partscaster has spent many summer afternoon lounging in the sun. No change yet...
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robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:30 am
Slowy wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 10:26 am
robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
They all look like calamine lotion to me.
Could just apply a thin layer of calamine lotion and then spray clear nitro over top?
Should get nicely crusty really quick.

I consider myself to be secure and comfortable in my skin, but I have this totally irrational aversion to pink. The only way I can deal with it on Fenders is to convince myself it's faded red. :crazy: :lol:
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robthemac wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:56 am Quick poll: which pink for a Shell Pink Strat? I'm going for a NOS look rather than faded / aged / yellowing. I think Pleasing Pink. Or maybe Cradle Pink. Or is it Kendall Rose?

https://www.ppgpaints.com/color/color-families/pinks
Both of these are entirely suitable for a Tele Swift :wink:
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