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ksdaddy
Posted 2014-04-26 2:27 PM (#485808)
Subject: Black light fun


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I picked up some kind of weird black light. I believe it's for use in the auto repair trade, where they put some kind of dye in your oil or anti-freeze and then use a light to find a leak. I thought maybe I could use it in guitar repair, as I have often heard they use black lights to spot repairs or finish touch ups. I tried using it for that on guitars I knew had repairs and touchups and I didn't see anything. So I really have no use for it. I'll flip it. But here's some normal light pics follwed by blacklight pics.... ain't this weird? Anything metal looks purple/black, sunbursts turn almost white... stuff just looks altogether wrong.











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danomyte
Posted 2014-04-26 3:11 PM (#485810 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun



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Cool. My kids would have a blast with that light.
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FlySig
Posted 2014-04-26 3:54 PM (#485813 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun



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Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ...
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AstroDan
Posted 2014-04-26 4:07 PM (#485816 - in reply to #485813)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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FlySig - 2014-04-26 3:54 PM Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ...

 

Oh, no you didn't!

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ksdaddy
Posted 2014-04-26 4:25 PM (#485819 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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I wondered about that.
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FlySig
Posted 2014-04-26 5:22 PM (#485826 - in reply to #485816)
Subject: Re: Black light fun



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AstroDan - 2014-04-26 4:07 PM

FlySig - 2014-04-26 3:54 PM Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ...

 

Oh, no you didn't!



It wasn't me!
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ksdaddy
Posted 2014-04-26 5:49 PM (#485831 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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I tried it again in a much darker room. I lit up my '71 Les Paul and the entire guitar glowed a puke Green just like I read it would. I lit up my '69 B-45-12 and it too glowed puke green except for a repaired top crack (with touch up). That glowed black and orange. I had often suspected the neck had been reset. Where the neck joins the body it was pure black. Ditto for a strap button crack that I had no knowledge of. I'm keeping this toy!
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Darkbar
Posted 2014-04-26 7:25 PM (#485834 - in reply to #485813)
Subject: Re: Black light fun



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FlySig - 2014-04-26 4:54 PM

Next time you stay in a hotel check out the chair, couch, bed cover, and carpet with that black light ...


Imagine the condition of a hotel room after a Usual Suspects gathering......

Edited by BobG 2014-04-26 7:31 PM
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cholloway
Posted 2014-04-27 5:54 PM (#485881 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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Do ALL bodily fluids glow under a black light? ewwwww.
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Darkbar
Posted 2014-04-27 7:43 PM (#485882 - in reply to #485881)
Subject: Re: Black light fun



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cholloway - 2014-04-27 6:54 PM

Do ALL bodily fluids glow under a black light? ewwwww.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOwTnxL4S8Q
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TJR
Posted 2014-04-28 9:11 PM (#485921 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun



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I was once told and shown (many many years ago) that there were some situations where Ovation used UV "glow in the dark " ink within the body's of some guitars. Used as a traceability marker? I can't recall if it was for FRG's or warranty stuff or something entirely different.
I have personally seen the ink and it's ability to glow under black light yet be invisible in ambient light. Cool stuff to see as a young kid





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CanterburyStrings
Posted 2014-04-29 10:02 AM (#485940 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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It was so you could tell the difference between "1st quality" (no mark), "AAA" ( A. cosmetic flaw), or "Second" (B. structural flaw and therefore without warranty.)
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ksdaddy
Posted 2014-04-29 11:04 AM (#485946 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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I looked through all my Applauses about a year ago with a regular black light bulb, one my sister gave me for Christmas in 1973 and it still works... I couldn't find any 'grading' marks on any as per Alison's statement. Either they're all "A Grade", any ink is faded away, or a regular bulb doesn't cut it. I may look again with the monster light. About 10 years ago I rescued a '65 Fender Palomino. A section of binding was missing so I grafted in a piece. Pretty ho-hum stuff, and the repair looks fine. Yes, you can see it if you look, but it doesn't jump out at you. However under the mega-light....

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CanterburyStrings
Posted 2014-04-29 12:19 PM (#485949 - in reply to #485808)
Subject: Re: Black light fun


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We didn't stamp them for the first couple or three years I worked there so not all of them got stamped.
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