Rerverse-Aging aka whitening creme bindings

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

The title says it all.
My attempts to take a possible (but as it turns out non-) existing amber clear code off my 70s Squier Jag neck I'm using for my new build have failed - and now I have a beautiful bound body (white binding) with a matching headstock with (small but) beautiful blocks but a non matching binding.

can you think of - or even better have you already successfully whitened creme/aged white plastic parts to white-white?

Or should I just scrape it off and put a white one on it? After my sanding accident that would be a bit much of a treatment for a 120€ neck... but well - it has a beautiful matching headstock...

The body will probably age over time - at least a little. But we are talking two extremes here.
Would retro-brite or something like that work?
I do have peroxide cleaning wipes.

Now I just wish I would have bought that AVRI 65 neck off ebay or the Musikraft (if it just wasn't that expansive with customs and all).

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

Just that you know what I‘m talking about;

[my main man]

Since the material used for the binding is the vintage cream color and not a stained white, bleach and retro-brite won't do anything to change the color. (note: I could be wrong about this and the binding might be white underneath a tinted clear coat but I'm almost positive it's not.) Might clean it up a little bit and be mildly brighter-seeming but nothing close to the binding on the guitar. If you're confident in doing the neck binding yourself, redoing it with white binding would be the best, if you're dead set on doing white. You might be able to get away with scraping the finish off and painting the binding and then spraying more clear coat over but the chances of that looking sloppy seem pretty high. Yellowing the body binding would be a lot easier, if you were okay going that route.

[Lost In Autumn]

you're stuck with that color in the binding, it's the color of the material and there's no changing it, aside from a new neck

[MayTheFuzzBeWithYou]

Thanks my main man (great username by the way... instantly reminded me of Black Dynamite) and Lost in Autumn. This is what I feared.

Anyhow. Awaiting incoming replies I "checked" again with a blade yesterday and it maybe got a few % lighter - but this might also have been a kind of clear coat or some of the amber that got onto it. It's still creamish. But let's see.

[solfege]

Same as others, but of course you could have someone redo the binding if you otherwise like the neck. That might or might not be cost effective given the neck's nominal value, but it should be possible and could be less expensive than getting another bound neck finished to match.

[CROSS_guitars]

You're probably better off yellowing the binding of the body.

[Sweetfinger]

The neck binding has a tinted clear on it but it's also not white. It would be much easier to tint the body binding.