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Topic: How to clean Rick frypan but keep old paint? |
Ava Lani
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 31 Oct 2012 11:34 am |
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| I have a Rick frypan that's got about 1/2 of the old gold/yellow paint still on it and I like the old vintage look so would rather keep the old paint on, but it needs to be cleaned and I'm afraid to touch it until I know what to use. Could someone please suggest what I might use? And any opinion as to whether most folks prefer to just strip the old paint off? Thanks for any advice, I appreciate it! |
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Garry Vanderlinde
From:
CA
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Posted 31 Oct 2012 9:49 pm
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If you clean it you may reduce it's value by 50% according to experts like George Gruhn.  |
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Ava Lani
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 1 Nov 2012 12:41 pm
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| Thank you Gary for replying. Do you think plain old soap and water would be the best thing? I don't want to do any harm to the existing paint, which I love, or the guitar as a whole, so am perhaps just being overly cautious? I just want to clean off the dust, grime, dirt that's accumulated over the years. I recently acquired it and don't know where it's been but it looks like just a lot of surface dirt. |
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Doug Beaumier
From:
Northampton, MA
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Ava Lani
From:
Washington, USA
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Posted 2 Nov 2012 12:15 am
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| Thank you Doug. The damp rag worked, dirt and grime safely removed, aged patina is intact (on both the axe and myself, lol). Strung it up and wow, I'm in love! There's a bit of pitting on the chrome pickup cover, can you suggest a product I might use to stop the rust from spreading? |
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John Billings
From:
Ohio, USA
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Posted 3 Nov 2012 7:20 am
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| I just sold a Deluxe 8 that had a tiny bit of pitting on the control plate. I used my favorite, California Custom's Purple Polish. When I was done, I couldn't even find the pits. But the control plate then looked brand new, high shine. If that's not what you wanna do, maybe rubbing some wax, like candle wax, into the pitted areas? Regular car and instrument waxes usually have cleaners in them, so they'd probably clean and shine the chrome. |
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