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    Fender tweed gig bags - where to find them?

    in Accessories and Misc

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    Hello

    A couple of years ago, I bought a Fender tweed gig bag from a member on BC who had had it a while. It is a great piece of work: it is lightweight, padded, has lots of pockets and is pretty much the best gig bag I have ever experienced. It is a fairly deluxe-tastic deluxe version.

    It looks like this:


    I seem to recall them also being available in black/dark grey tweed, but Google does not really support this idea. Also, it seems that the yellow tweed version is no longer available.

    Am I going crazy? Were these once available in black tweed? If so, I would love to have one of them. Any ideas where I could get one, other than Ebay (who don't seem to have any listed at the moment)?

    Just played with a pick for the first time!

    in General Discussion

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    [quote name='Marvin' timestamp='1376250832' post='2171375']
    I very rarely use a pick for the sole reason I'm sh*t f***ing useless when I do. It all goes disastrously wrong when I use a pick for some reason.
    [/quote]

    Same for me. My hand cramps up, I miss the strings and, often, I drop the pick. Nothing a good bit of practice couldn't fix, but still...

    Fender to finally make the Starcaster bass and reissue the Coronado?

    in Bass Guitars

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    [quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1375912633' post='2167480']
    If there was a 5-string of either of these I could be persuaded to actually buy a Fender bass!
    [/quote]

    Me too. I played a Coronado in a shop a few years ago and nearly bought it before realising that I had misread the price tag. It would make my day if they were to make them with 5 strings. I had a look at the semi-acoustic 5-string Warwicks on the interwebs and they were horrifically far outside of my budget!

    First ever bass refinish/Mod- All Finished!

    in Build Diaries

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    [quote name='Dave Vader' timestamp='1376060201' post='2169197']
    superglue and cocktail sticks/toothpicks are great for filling old screw holes. Make sure your saddles on the bridge are sitting where the old ones did and you should be fine.

    Welcome to sanding hell, poly finishes are the worst, and enjoy doing the cutaways. They are damn near impossible.
    [/quote]

    Yup...I refinished a Telecaster copy once which had a thick poly coating on it. I did it all by hand - no heat guns, no chemicals...just sandpaper and a sanding block. It took me weeks. The good bit was that parts of the plastic coating flaked off in the cutaway areas and I could pick it off with what was left of my fingernails. I still had to do a lot of sanding there, though, and it was a long way from easy. But very satisfying!

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