SFIV1967
Venerated Member
Oh I totally agree, hence I set "simply" in quotation marks. Both black and the yellowed lacquer add to the difficulty. But it might still look better afterwards than to leave it as it is. I ruined a black headstock by using an amber tinted lacquer as top coat once, it looked like gold glitter afterwards as the black base showed all the color particles of the amber lacquer...Since I always use aged clear lacquer which gets pretty amber after weeks in the sunlight... So yes, it will not give you a perfect result, but like you said, the difficulty is the decal in that case.That explanation sounds straightforward enough Ralf, but I've tried doing partial drop-fills on headstocks and it's tricky.
First, it can be hard to match the original color.
You'd think "black is black," to quote the song, but it's not; some black headstocks are a lighter shade of black than others.
Ralf