Will sunlight make a transparent finish fade to allow more wood grain to show through?

hassleham

Just wondering if anyone knows if this is true? I remember hearing it somewhere but may have been dreaming.
My latest NGD has a trans white finish but it’s nearly opaque and doesn’t show much of the swamp ash grain through, so I’m curious whether leaving it out of its case/in direct sunlight will cause the white finish to fade a little to allow more grain through?

Winny_Pooh

I've never seen this happen, only for clears (nitrocellulose) to go more yellow.

SteveRobinson

No. The white component is probably titanium dioxide (or another mineral) which will not degrade in sunlight.

Sassafras

I think that only happens to vampires.

sweepy

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

Branshen

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

just smoke at home, and use the guitar as an ashtray

57Deluxe

varnish will 'tan' down and the wood will darken depending on type

terada

Branshen said:

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

just smoke at home, and use the guitar as an ashtray

Back in my smoking days I used to use the space between the low e string and the headstock on my strat to hold my lit cigarette while playing. 

Bonkers

OilCityPickups

terada said:

Branshen said:

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

just smoke at home, and use the guitar as an ashtray

Back in my smoking days I used to use the space between the low e string and the headstock on my strat to hold my lit cigarette while playing. 

Bonkers

Didn't everyone?

BeardyAndy

OilCityPickups said:

terada said:

Branshen said:

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

just smoke at home, and use the guitar as an ashtray

Back in my smoking days I used to use the space between the low e string and the headstock on my strat to hold my lit cigarette while playing. 

Bonkers

Didn't everyone?

More recently i've found you can get half a chocolate digestive in there!

Philly_Q

Branshen said:

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

just smoke at home, and use the guitar as an ashtray

Many years ago I read an interview with one of the guitarists from Kix (Brian "Damage" Forsythe or Ronnie "10/10" Younkins).

He used to leave his guitars hanging in his shed (outhouse?) surrounded by lit cigarettes, to get that "nicotine aged" effect.  They must have smelled fucking horrible.

wesker123

No wonder them masterbuilts & Tom Murphy guitars are so expensive. Cigs not cheap.

ICBM

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

Thankfully.

Nor will your stage clothes and your gear stink of stale tobacco when you get them out next.

Nor will the inside of any fan-cooled gear you use end up covered in foul smelling, thermally insulating, electrically conductive filth which eventually kills it. I won't post the photograph I have here... suffice to say it should be printed on a fag packet.

Sassafras

ICBM said:

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

Thankfully.

Nor will your stage clothes and your gear stink of stale tobacco when you get them out next.

Do you wear a special stage costume then?
Does it involve a cape?

ICBM

Sassafras said:

Do you wear a special stage costume then?

I did back then .

Sassafras said:

Does it involve a cape?

Sadly, no... if I had it would have probably looked more Trick Or Treat than superhero .

skullfunkerry

ICBM said:

sweepy said:

With the smoking ban in pubs and clubs, no longer will you get nicotine white

Thankfully.

Nor will your stage clothes and your gear stink of stale tobacco when you get them out next.

Nor will the inside of any fan-cooled gear you use end up covered in foul smelling, thermally insulating, electrically conductive filth which eventually kills it. I won't post the photograph I have here... suffice to say it should be printed on a fag packet.

And you've got a much lower chance of 'doing a Roy Castle' as well...

rossi

I took my old Harmony Sovereign round London folk clubs and further  in the 60's and also smoked at home .I rarely cleaned much though it always had a reasonable  finish except in corners  due to handliing and playing .Move on 30 years and I decided to really clean it up.I was gobsmacked that the brown crud that came out of the corners   still smelled of smoke after all that time .I had long given up a weed of any kind  .It was orrible and down my lungs still probably .