i have been experimenting with aging hardware, its a bit of fun involveing hydrochloric acid and a tupperware tub. but i was wondering is there any other wacky ways people relic parts. my favourite to get that smoke stained yellow is well....... using cigar smoke and behlen solvent. and that idea came from noticing after the ban on smoking in most of the free world that guitars would not get that yellow hue from the sweaty gigs in the smoky old blues clubs, you would have to smoke that tele of yours with the hanging salmon. so as a smoker i thought what if i put all my butts in a plant pot with sand, let the rain concentrate the mix and use bahlen solvent to let the colour soak into the plastics......... that was a fail it went a dirty browny orange. i refined the idea a bit and decided to use a more dilute mix and get a cleaning product pump bottle which worked but didnt quite look real enough. now i ave a box with a hole in it and a plexi front which means i can make sure the aging looks spot on. if you guys have any inspired relicing ideas and stories of how you came up with it please share