rosewood-izing ebony?

[~K~]

Re: rosewood-izing ebony?

while we are at it if ya wanna give your maple a nice carmelized color you can always soak in in cola overnight... be sure to save the cola to clean your chrome after your done

[ranalli]

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Is this thread a joke???

[~K~]

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why ...are you laughing?

[Newc]

Re: rosewood-izing ebony?

Interesting......

[Number Of The Priest]

Re: rosewood-izing ebony?

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yellow for maple (dot with a pencil eraser while it's still wet to add birdseye, or swab with a Kleenex for flame).

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[delt]

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keep making up weird stories like that, and you'll end up with "nosewood" (: (:

[RacerX]

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while we are at it if ya wanna give your maple a nice carmelized color you can always soak in in cola overnight... be sure to save the cola to clean your chrome after your done

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http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/acid.asp

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[~K~]

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dude you never watched mythbusters did you ..

[RacerX]

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No gots cable [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

I hear it's a cool show though!

[VitaminG]

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I'd suggest "massaging" your ebony fretboard with a tenderizer mallet, to "open up" the grain for a more rosewood-like appearance. Hit it with a strong bleaching compound to strip most of the unwanted colour out of the fretboard, and then soak it overnight in a bathtub full of beetroot juice until you obtain desired colour.

Alternatively, you could try the extensive range of contact papers available in many different wood grains. Play a maple fretboard one week, a pau ferro the next. Take pictures of your guitar wearing different fretboards in different positions on and around your couch, photoshop them all together into one image, and fool people in online forums into believing that you have a much larger collection than they do.

[ranalli]

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why ...are you laughing?

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Yeah I am actually, the posts are funny.

[charvelguy]

Re: rosewood-izing ebony?

Various teas work well as a natural wood dye if ya haven't tried it yet.

[sully]

Re: rosewood-izing ebony?

i was also thinking about matching the fretboard to the cherry burst. i read somewhere that you can use kool-aid powder as a dye, so i may get some cherry and orange and see what i come up with. i think that'd be wicked pissah!

suly

[Zerberus]

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[YetAnotherOne]

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Interesting......

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