"Unfinished project"

[rwillett]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186076868628?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=s1cbsdhsrdw&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=70h8JO93TH6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

I look at this and wonder why?

[oldslapper]

He probably came to the same conclusion.  

[Bassassin]

"I set fire to it then got bored."

[rwillett]

I can't get my head around having a new £350 bass, deciding to strip it because you didn't like yellow, deciding it was topo much effort after just enough effort to wreck it, but not enough to give somebody else a fighting chance of finishing it and then selling it on eBay for £120. Well it's gone now so either they changed their mind or somebody brought it.

 

Rob

[sandy_r]

11 hours ago, rwillett said:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186076868628?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=s1cbsdhsrdw&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=70h8JO93TH6&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

I look at this and wonder why?

 

 ...got to love eB*y: "Used: ... The item may have some signs of cosmetic wear"

 

[rwillett]

Looks like a hot air gun got involved at some point as well as a sanding machine. 

 

Oh well somebody is going to have to spend less than £220 to put it back to a reasonable state, whatever that would be. 

 

 

[Bigwan]

Someone with no staying power/limited diy skills/money to literally burn (delete as applicable) going for the raw mahogany Serek look I would think...

[rwillett]

Or, bear with me here, I have a radical idea, they could have brought this one

 

https://www.epiphone.com/en-GB/Electric-Bass/Newport-Bass/Cherry

 

Then again, I suppose they'd have then painted it badly in bright yellow.

 

After saying all of this, I have an Ibanez Mikro that looks like somebody (not me) used it for a shovel and pick axe on a building site. Even though it looks like crap, it sounds really, really good, I have no idea how, but it's a great growly tone on it.  So I thought I'd get somebody to look at the neck, I'll then sort the body out, it stands me at virtually nothing, so will be fun. I can see the sander coming out, it will have to be reliced (is that really a word?) as the thickness of the paint/plastic/covering is very thick, circa 1mm, so can't be easily repainted. With my skills, it'll be on eBay in a few weeks as I rage quite on it

Rob

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Was the project was to ruin the bass, but as he only managed to ruin the back, consequently the project is unfinished?