Frankenstrat neck relicing

So I used someone's tip of rubbing some graphite powder into the fret board and scrubbing it with a cleaning pad and rag to get my result. The video doesn't do it justice, you be the judge here, but I think the neck looks SO much better now with the relic'd body. It doesn't look as NEW any more.

guys, you don't have to go to home depot to buy graphite powder, all you need to do is pull a few 0.5 mm leads out of a click pencil and crush them with the end of a screwdriver. that's all I needed to do an entire neck, and it costs $0.00 !!

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Howto & Style

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• neck
• relic
• eddie
• van
• halen
• frankenstein
• frankenstrat
• frets

[DanielGCooper]

I've just started building one of these and have a question for you. You used graphite powder and coated in tru-oil and polished with steel wool, I intend to do just that.

Does it lock the dirty look in properly and prevent it from coming off all over your fingers?

[scorch72]

@DanielGCooper yes, the truoil will cover it over and lock it in. before applying the truoil, cover your frets with masking tape. use thin coats of oil, 1 coat every 24 hours, you should be good after 4 or 5 coats. use some 0000 steel wool to lightly buff the shine off the last coat.

[theMicrowaveStudios]

when you put the graphite on the neck was the fretboard unfinished, or did it have some type of clear coat on it?

[scorch72]

@theMicrowaveStudios I used a few coats of tru-oil on top to seal it in. then after it cured I rubbed the sheen off the finish with some steel wool.

[evhfrankie]

Do you put the lead on the neck and then crush it?

[scorch72]

@evhfrankie crush it with something till you get a "dust effect" then use your fingers to rub it in.

[scorch72]

@evhfrankie

bought it on ebay from a seller named 4monkeyz . his real name was James Duffy. The neck was a piece of junk. bad frets, truss rod didn't work, took me forever to make it playable.

[evhfrankie]

@scorch72 where did u get the neck?

[flymyv]

Bro.. yours is just like mine, good job.

[scorch72]

@evhfrankie it rubbed off on some places where I play a lot, but not all, it still looks dirty as hell on the rubbed off spots.

[evhfrankie]

@scorch72 does the Lead rub off of the neck after u play awhile?