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JazzManRoper
Copper Member
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 Posted - 08/29/2006 : 15:34:13
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stahlhart
Platinum Member
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Posted - 08/29/2006 : 21:35:58
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It's the iron underneath that rusts, not the nickel or chrome. 
My gut feeling would be that it would be more dependent on the quality of the plating (how good of a layer of it there is, and how well it adheres to the surface it's plated on) rather than the plating itself...
/I knew what you meant
//sorry
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JazzManRoper
Copper Member
USA
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Posted - 08/29/2006 : 22:34:35
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Originally posted by stahlhart
It's the iron underneath that rusts, not the nickel or chrome.
My gut feeling would be that it would be more dependent on the quality of the plating (how good of a layer of it there is, and how well it adheres to the surface it's plated on) rather than the plating itself...
/I knew what you meant
//sorry
So all Gibson parts are merely nickel/chrome plated and not entirely made up of that metal? I'm referring to the pick up covers and bridges mainly. |
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stahlhart
Platinum Member
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Posted - 08/29/2006 : 22:51:48
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Well, if they were solid nickel or chromium, they would not rust -- you couldn't have iron oxide if there's no iron there. So the parts in question that are rusting are steel with plating, and the plating is either chipping/flaking away or mabye to a certain degree it's being worn from body chemistry.
They do use brass for parts, things like bridges and (I think) tuning heads -- sometimes they'll just leave it brass and mabye coat it with an epoxy finish to prevent it from tarnishing... sometimes they nickel plate brass parts to keep their appearance consistent with other nickel plated parts.
But I think that the cost of some of these metals is too high to make parts completely out of them, so they'll plate cheaper metals like steel or brass with them, just to get the superior finish appearance. Other factors here are characteristics of the metals, things like malleability or ductility, how easy they are to machine or stamp, how strong they are as far as holding up under use, etc.
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nosi0
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Netherlands
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Posted - 08/30/2006 : 14:30:58
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I don't know what material there made of but the epiphone Tune-o-matic bridges do go bad i can't tell if its rust but it goes dirty and ugly (this is under much more humid conditions than america and england) yet the epiphone tunning heads stay perfect so you should want the material the heads are made of, yet im not sure what there made of.
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Nickel Vs. Chrome
