I genuinely thought that was a scorched finish. Although it's not a look I'd go for unless I was looking for wall dressings for a pub that does Sunday lunches, it is striking.
Nice reclaim job... even for a guitar. (spits on the ground).
Your next one looks, er, distressing though. I think you might have scorched it accidentally.
I agree re: the pickguard. My eye keeps going to the lower right hand corner of the unfinished body as seen in the image above. It's different to the bass on the left.
Even without the reference to the stars, the spacings are nicely incremental.
If you do call it your birth-sign bass you can then say it has astral charm. Should give you a lot of hippy cred.
"What makes this site work?"
Elastic bands, bits of chewing gum and the knicker elastic from the last pair of knickers that Valerie Singleton wore on Blue Peter... mainly.
One thing that is annoying about CDs and you still get it. Those damned plastic jewel cases.
The hinge lugs break or you get a crack right across the front over the artwork or the internal lugs snap so that the disc drops out through the slightest opening of the case. They're rubbish and they belong to the last century!
I much prefer the multi-fold cardboard sleeves.