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That looks totally amazing but too expensive for me

Assembled - well, not wired up and no strings . Subtle aging only on board (thanks to skol3503) and none on bridge as I want both to work properly and I always use a bridge cover https://1drv.ms/i/s!AtLmuonyj7TxrkFadgeMtNMnw7q9 https://1drv.ms/i/s!AtLmuonyj7TxrkOX3cFt_eKqCThp https://1drv.ms/i/s!AtLmuonyj7TxrkKQwglkfd_u5NYq https://1drv.ms/i/s!AtLmuonyj7TxrkCDdZXOMvQDFJL5

That's a real shame

I take out my 12 string but to be honest I just live making people jump with my p bass. Weedy acoustic guitars just don't do that

Thanks all, favourable and not I'll upload when I've carelessly screwed it back together with a reliced screwdriver

Shhh ... Don't talk about it!

Marvin lee aday, I thought

My feelings are that modern basses are more likely to be a decent vintage in the future. In the 70s the jigs were wearing out at tender and qc was pretty low

[quote name='bassbiscuits' timestamp='1466001130' post='3072742'] was there a 'before' picture to compare? [/quote] Somewhere - it was just a bog standard 3ts

Raw wood was coated in darker nitro then rubbed to take the shine off. The bass doc did the neck in three shades of nitro (head /f board / back) when he built it so I just rubbed the back down a bit, i hand rolled the edges and the head has s few minor dings

Thanks I will assemble it and upload As painy knows, I did start it off myself but relic chap was braver We will see what the somewhat staid crowd at the church OM night think

https://1drv.ms/i/s!AtLmuonyj7TxrEAs4TGtY8ZtHt7- https://1drv.ms/i/s!AtLmuonyj7TxrEIDdcyk877TRihJ It's now sprayed in nitro and for the money I paid, I'm happy, it's had a gentle rubdown to be less shiny overall and the bare sections look much more woody and less shiny than shown here I'm not wild about the forearm contour but it's my fault not his, I should have stuck with it as he suggested

Or sand it very gently I did this once using snake print paper / looked cool

Cheers mister

Thanks Seen pics but nitro looks different

Its arriving at work today, mr midnight oil

are they the same scales that you had in your 20s ? Perhaps their ability to measure weight has declined and you've actually gained no weight at all.

it'll be here monday

[quote name='thegummy' timestamp='1465507866' post='3068935'] Thanks for the replies. So I take it the Fender ones are essentially just a cutout sheet of plastic with nothing special? Do the cheap ones have the tinfoil on the back like the proper ones? Makes me wonder, if they're charging that much markup on a cutout sheet of plastic, how much of the price of their guitars is nothing more than markup because people will pay for the brand? [/quote] yes - i don't see a lot of diifference - if you buy a fender one, you might get a truss rod cutout (as on US standard) but frankly you can do that in five minutes with a Dremel. £7 vs £45 quid makes me reach for the Dremel as I have small drains on my resources to feed. I [b]think[/b] the difference is that the cheap ones are a plastic film (talking tort here) over a white/black/white layered plate, whereas the more expensive tort ones are an actual coloured top layer . However I've never had a cheapie tear on me and no one can tell from more than an inch away. Yes they do have tinfoil and its perfectly adequate - if you want more you can just add it as long as you keep conductivity Probably quite a lot, I would say. I would seriously doubt that the Fender branded ones are hand made by seasoned professional plastic carvers deep in the Appalachian Mountains before being wafted over Leo's signature to acquire magic . Just churned out on a CNC machine somewhere like the cheap ones.

I disagree - I think that USED to be true I've bought a fair few cheapies and only had trouble fitting them to (some) jap stuff and squier affinity

[quote name='blue' timestamp='1465339174' post='3067437'] Isn't the context that that band had just played a crap set. And that shouldn't happen at that level. Blue [/quote] I do thInk there is a cultural difference here, spent a lot of time in US and I do think we could use /a bit/ of the "so try harder" mentality /sometimes/ - doesn't make getting medieval on someone ok though and profanity unneeded

[quote name='Rich' timestamp='1465337532' post='3067415'] Oh good call Here's a nice pic of a relic P bass and a Fodera [/quote] You'd think a fodera would include mudguards at the price they charge

Don't you start 😄

[quote name='Jus Lukin' timestamp='1465324417' post='3067206'] Another case of black and white extremes! Basses are neither babies nor tools. They are instruments (hence, that being what they are called). They won't die and you won't go to prison if they get knocked about, but they will stop doing their job so well if knocked out of 'calibration'. You can't trust them to handle being chucked about like you might a hammer or screwdriver, which incidentally will also last longer and work better if not battered in the course of duty. Generally speaking, look after them- don't marry them. Or just f*** them up if you like. They are yours, at the end of the day. [/quote] Yep - I'm fairly rough with it but it's looked after at a technical level - it's reliced - why not help it along