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Posted by: shredmandan Aug 12 2007, 09:32 AM

I just got done replacing alot of parts on my Fender Strat.It had gold hardware on it but in the ten years i have had it alot faded and some tarnished.I just bought a new neck plate,strap locks,pickguard screws and input jack along with some dome knobs all in gold.I dont like the look of the white classic knobs on strat's.It really improved the look of my guitar for under $30.00 US .I now have left over parts and was wondering if anybody had some good tipson cleaning gold hardware?I have heard that you can have then redipped but i would think it would cost more to do that than buy them new.Also i would like some tips on keeping my current hardware i just bought from fading and getting tarnished.I know there are some people that dont care what there guitar looks like and just throw it around and some that take really good care of it (like me ) I just look at it like i didnt pay this much money for something to not keep it up.I didnt care and put sticker;s all over my guitar back in the day when i strated but i think when you get older of when you pay a good amount of money fo something you respect it more.

Posted by: Hemlok Aug 12 2007, 10:15 AM

I have no tips for you sorry, but can we see a pic of your new hardware on

Posted by: tonymiro Aug 14 2007, 08:34 AM

Sorry don't know - all mine are chrome, for which I just attack with duraglit (which I don't think would be good with gold finished hardware).

Cheers,
Tony

Posted by: shredmandan Aug 14 2007, 08:44 AM

Yeah
I just need some help making sure it's not a bigfoot picture on here I dont have any programs that downsize so i would need some help

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Aug 14 2007, 09:17 AM

Check out this site:

http://www.shrinkpictures.com

You upload a picture and you get it back resized - works really well

Posted by: shredmandan Aug 14 2007, 09:34 AM

Thanks thats Awesome
What is a good size for a picture to be displayed thats not to big.

Posted by: shredmandan Aug 14 2007, 09:44 AM

Here it is
My camera always posts flash in picks You cant really get a good look at it all but gives you an idea of it.I replaced every thing gold from the strap buttons,saddles,jack, even pickguard screw's.The only thing i wasent able to was the bridge.I had bought one and it didnt fit without modifying it and i didnt want to so i just took the saddles off.

sorry for the huge pic.I tryed the program and worked but now i cant find the pic on my computer

Posted by: shredmandan Aug 14 2007, 09:54 AM

Let s see how this worked

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Posted by: Hemlok Aug 14 2007, 05:33 PM

looks cool, a couple black pickup covers would look good

Posted by: Andrew Cockburn Aug 14 2007, 06:54 PM

Wow, cool looking guitar!

Great picture size as well