Changing the look of my bass.

[lanark]

What did you use to seal the wood in the end?

[xgsjx]

Cheers.

I used a couple of coats of beeswax to seal it.
Rubbed it in, left it to dry for a bit & then rubbed it down with just a clean cloth & then did the same again.

I may give it another in a few weeks if needed.

[Dr.Dave]

I'll tell you what you should do with that bass...............

absolutely bugger all - excellent work. Class.

[Roland Rock]

Lovely job - well done

[Norris]

Beautiful!

[bartelby]

That looks fantastic!!
Nice job!

[Gareth Hughes]

Looks great - the shape of the horns really brings out the grain. Job well done.

[Norm]

That is a thing of beauty! Nice work.

[karlfer]

Ye Gods, wish I had your skills, smashing job, well done.
Karl.

[gub]

not read this thread for a while and didnt realise you had done it ,great work it looks ammazing!

Edited June 18, 2011 by gub

[lanark]

Just a query - is there a knob missing? Or is that a switch?

[xgsjx]

It's a switch. Does look like a pot shaft in the pic tho.

I'm toying with putting different knobs on it as the standard ibby knobs are hard to see where they're set to (I might even get a toggle that looks like a toggle too ).

[Tait]

Wow! This looks great! I've got an Ibanez SR500 with it's paint all chipped and scratches all over it, you're tempting me to do something similar now! Mine's got a mahogany body though, the grain would be nowhere near as nice as yours!

[xgsjx]

Strip it. You wont regret it.

If you don't like the wood you can always prime it & spray it or do what I was planing & metal leaf it (I was gonna have part wood & part silver leaf).

[wez]

I've always liked Ibanez basses, but think you've just made want to go out and buy another for a project. Great work.

[muttley]

Sorry to drag up an old thread. Re: the jack recess. Was the decision to keep it black based on the difficulty in stripping the paint in this area? Did you have to re-touch the paint here?

[xgsjx]

I had early on decided to keep the recess black & a good job too. It's made of black plastic!

I didn't have to retouch it other than sand the black paint off of it & then I rubbed Danish oil into it when I was doing the body. Even on close inspection, you wouldn't know that it was a moulded lump of plastic (or it could be carved out of ebony ).

I've been messing about with the bass a bit more & when I complete my project, I'll post some more pics here.

[Prime_BASS]

Wow.
First trime seeing tghis, it looks really great now, a real Warwick vide going on, the grain is excellent.

[Benplaysbass]

I did something very similar to my Aria Pro, it was getting pretty chipped and knocked about so did the same.

[IMG]http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae119/lc4benmaille/guitar1.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae119/lc4benmaille/guitar2.jpg[/IMG]

And it ended up like this.

[IMG]http://i963.photobucket.com/albums/ae119/lc4benmaille/_8160040.jpg[/IMG]