Chris Horton Posted January 10, 2012 Posted January 10, 2012 (edited) Here is a picture of my 2005 Ltd Edition butter cream Stingray 5 with a silver paisley scrarchplate. The plate has a real sparkle to it. I will try and take some better pictures in natural daylight when I get a moment. [attachment=97048:IMG_1918.JPG] How have you personalised your bass ? Show off your custom scratchplates Edited July 7, 2012 by Chris Horton Quote
apa Posted January 11, 2012 Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) I have developed a thing for veneer scratch plates. Why spoil a nice bit of wood and wire with a slab of plastic!! More here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/158865-annie-jazz-bitsa-deluxe/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url] and a first attempt here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/132409-rosie/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url] A Edited January 11, 2012 by apa Quote
Chris Horton Posted January 11, 2012 Author Posted January 11, 2012 [quote name='apa' timestamp='1326272868' post='1494633'] I have developed a thing for veneer scratch plates. Why spoil a nice bit of wood and wire with a slab of plastic!! More here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/158865-annie-jazz-bitsa-deluxe/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url] and a first attempt here: [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/132409-rosie/page__fromsearch__1"]http://basschat.co.u...__fromsearch__1[/url] A [/quote] That's a great idea Did you make the plate yourself ? What is the vaneer ? I would love to put a dark grain vaneer plate on my natural Stingray 5 Quote
apa Posted January 12, 2012 Posted January 12, 2012 [quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1326308675' post='1495322'] That's a great idea Did you make the plate yourself ? What is the vaneer ? I would love to put a dark grain vaneer plate on my natural Stingray 5 [/quote] Used a Squier VM plate as template. Got some 4mm ply and machined it down to 2mm (Thats the difficult bit lol) Veneered some birdseye maple on top. Reduced the overall size by 1.5mm all round. Strips of Black/boxwood binding glued around the edges then chamfered back to give you that 3 ply look. Varnished with household clear a few times then cut out the bell plate and neck profiles. Finally stuck on with double sided industrial tape. Its very tempting to just stick some veneer over a plastic scratch plate but give it a while and the veneer will shrink / move as all wood will and it will come away from the plastic. Glad you like it A Quote
KiOgon Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 One way to get personal/special is to cut/get made a scratch plate from clear Acrylic or Polycarbonate/Lexan sheet, then fit whatever you want underneath, veneer, wallpaper, photograph, newspaper, cornflakes packet, squashed flies, whatever you like. You can even do custom artwork on the reverse & have it protected by the see through top. Cheerz, John Quote
janmaat Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 [quote name='hofa' timestamp='1332167359' post='1584141'] [/quote] AWESOME Quote
apa Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 Mandelbrot scratchplate how cool is that!! Nice one A Quote
fretmeister Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 [quote name='Chris Horton' timestamp='1326235089' post='1494405'] Here is a picture of my 2005 Ltd Edition butter cream Stingray 5 with a silver paisley scrarchplate. The plate has a real sparkle to it. I will try and take some better pictures in natural daylight when I get a moment. [attachment=97048:IMG_1918.JPG] How have you personalised your bass ? Show off your custom scratchplates [/quote] That is superb! Who made that? Quote
Chris Horton Posted March 19, 2012 Author Posted March 19, 2012 [quote name='fretmeister' timestamp='1332184144' post='1584528'] That is superb! Who made that? [/quote] I got it from WD Music - [url="http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/category/Pickguards,b.html"]http://www.wdmusic.co.uk/category/Pickguards,b.html[/url] Best to give them a call as sometimes they have items in stock that are not on the website. Not what i call cheap but it is very well pit together. My photo does not do it justice , it is much better looking in the flesh Quote
gjones Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 You want weird and wonderfull scratchplates? I'll give you weird and wonderful scratchplates! [url="http://www.greasygroove.com/categories.php?cat=510"]http://www.greasygroove.com/categories.php?cat=510[/url] Quote
ahpook Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 [quote name='hofa' timestamp='1332167359' post='1584141'] [/quote] i think i'm having a flashback Quote
Icarus_147 Posted March 19, 2012 Posted March 19, 2012 All of these look awesome, really loving the OP's though. I was considering getting a Zebraprint plate for the P I'm doing up, but I ended up getting a different bass to the one I was originally looking at. Thinking a mirrored plate would look better now. Time shall tell! Quote
hofa Posted March 20, 2012 Posted March 20, 2012 [quote name='KiOgon' timestamp='1332169965' post='1584197'] One way to get personal/special is to cut/get made a scratch plate from clear Acrylic or Polycarbonate/Lexan sheet, then fit whatever you want underneath, veneer, wallpaper, photograph, newspaper, cornflakes packet, squashed flies, whatever you like. You can even do custom artwork on the reverse & have it protected by the see through top. Cheerz, John [/quote] That´s how I did mine Quote
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