Cleaning your knobs - a warning

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blake375

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I recently bought a goldie that was in a filthy state, but cleaned up nicely with a bit of work.

You know how strat-style knobs can get a lot of dirt stuck in them? Well an effective way I've found to clean this out very quickly (it takes literally 20 seconds per knob) is using a toothbrush and, you guessed it, toothpaste.

A word of warning though - on this occasion, I used whitening toothpaste, and remarkably it did for these knobs what it has never done for my teeth - it turned them white!

I now have a goldie with nicely aged pup covers and scrathcplate, but whiter-than-white knobs! They look brand new! It's kinda spoiled the look of the thing - I might have to buy some cream ones now! :cry:
 
I don't clean my knobs - with or without toothpaste. :-?

Now, lets have a bet on who will lower the tone of this discussion first. Mick? Marcus?

:lol:

Mike
 
stratman323 said:
I don't clean my knobs - with or without toothpaste. :-?

Now, lets have a bet on who will lower the tone of this discussion first. Mick? Marcus?

:lol:

Mike

I'll take the high road :wink: Whitening tootpaste has peroxide in it in addition to being more abrasive than standard paste - that's how it works better on your teeth and now your .....um, knobs (bet they're minty fresh too).
 
I think Goldstar knobs age to cream through exposure to UV light. My creamy ones are all white underneath.
 
They vary. This ST55 went cream:

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This one didn't:

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And one of these did, & one didn't:

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And this little Tokai went..... whang breeeeeeeeee dooooooooooooooo farp farp farp dee diddly doo do waaahhhhhhhhhhh klang.... all the way home :D
 
SteveDoG said:
And this little Tokai went..... whang breeeeeeeeee dooooooooooooooo farp farp farp dee diddly doo do waaahhhhhhhhhhh klang.... all the way home :D

You've heard Mike play then :wink:
 

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