Air Compressor Recommendation?

Thread starter darth_myeek
Start date May 20, 2010

darth_myeek

Sr Member

May 24, 2010

Delmustator said:
Have you checked to see if there is a way to chemically etch the chrome?

There is. PCB etchant from Radio Shack, but it seems to warm the color of the finish. I guess it's eating chrome and exposing the nickel? I believe fuming with muriatic acid rectifies the "applied look".

Here is an example of a bridge which is a couple of years newer than the one I am replicating. 50's Tele bridges even pristine are what I consider "dry" below the pickup. Above the pickup is what I would consider thin plating.

New ones look like this. Looks like the plating is applied with a butter knife.:lol

I am still in the research phase so I'd love suggestions.

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