christhammer666 Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 pretty much a replica of the matt freeman precision but with heavy pick marks on the plate above the e string Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigRedX Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 (edited) 6 hours ago, Steve Browning said: I haven't seen a thread on specific wear patterns. I was asking about any marks your playing leaves on the instrument. Weirdly, I also bite my nails and generally the two guilty fingers are bent over. The pattern is a bit of a mystery to me, but there it is. Looks like I'm not alone in just reading the title and not the actual content of the OP. So to answer the actual question my signature instruments wouldn't have any wear patterns. If my instruments get to the point where the wear was actually noticeable I have them refinished/refurbished. I've already done it twice once with a guitar and once with a bass although in the second case the wear had been inflicted by a previous owner, I also took the opportunity to have it refinished in a colour that was more to my taste. Edited October 30 by BigRedX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baloney Balderdash Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 I actually gave this quite a lot of thought: A custom made 4 string, 28,6" scale, bass, with a slim modern C profile, bolt on, clear satin finish, 5 piece laminated Jatoba/black Ebony (just 2 relatively narrow layers of Ebony in between 3 wider layers of Jatoba) neck, with graphite rods enforcement and a double action truss rod, a tilted 2+2, gold plated tuning mechanisms, classic B.C Rich inspired, headstock, but overall slightly more narrow, and with the "devil horns" slightly shifted, so that the upper slightly larger "horn" is sitting a bit more forward than the slightly smaller and slightly retracted lower "horn", and a 24 medium jumbo stainless steel frets, 12" radius, figured Ebony, fretboard, with an ESP LTD F-204/F-1004 style inspired Mahogany body with a spalted maple top, in a transparent matte black burst finish, with a blood red solid circle figure with a black OM sign in the middle, placed approximately right above the bridge, and equipped with an EMG Geezer Butler reverse P pickup in the neck position, and in the bridge position a gold plated DiMarzio Relentless Middle reverse P pickup with a gold plated series/parallel switch, with an active stacked LPF/HPF tone filter control for each of the 2 pickups, and an active pickup blend control, equipped with knobs made of solid transparent red plexi glass encapsulated in hollow gold plated cylinders with a thin spiraling gold rib going upwards around them, gold plated steel mono rail bridge pieces, milled from solid brass, with a string spacing of 17,5mm (or perhaps instead even a wammy/tremolo bridge with 17,5mm string spacing), and an accordingly more narrow neck, with a 38mm wide graphite nut. Equipped with Elixir Nanoweb guitar strings of the gauges .074 - .056 - .042 - 030, and tuned to tenor bass, A standard, tuning, as in the upper 4 strings of a 6 string bass tuned to regular B standard tuning. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 I wonder if the custom shop could replicate this bass of mine The wear under the G string is casued by my third finger digging in when I play with a pick (mostly I play with a pick) This bass has done a lot of gigs in its 34 years with me. The wood is actually gouged out, not just the finish It's actually a '73 not a'75 (I have the original bridge with the long screw for the G string intonation) 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted October 30 Share Posted October 30 18 hours ago, bassbiscuits said: ...some horizontal long surface scratches across the front from reckless pick playing. This ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Browning Posted October 30 Author Share Posted October 30 2 hours ago, police squad said: I wonder if the custom shop could replicate this bass of mine The wear under the G string is casued by my third finger digging in when I play with a pick (mostly I play with a pick) This bass has done a lot of gigs in its 34 years with me. The wood is actually gouged out, not just the finish It's actually a '73 not a'75 (I have the original bridge with the long screw for the G string intonation) This is exactly what I was after. The gouges on my '66 are really quite deep. One of the reasons I semi-retired it - to prevent the gouges getting any deeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
police squad Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 11 hours ago, Steve Browning said: This is exactly what I was after. The gouges on my '66 are really quite deep. One of the reasons I semi-retired it - to prevent the gouges getting any deeper. I have an almost immaculate P bass special from about 1981, I had this as my lounge bass but realised that I was starting to gouge ths one as well, so put it away. Good band name Gouged Out!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skybone Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Probably: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uk_lefty Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Loads of dints in the headstock from clashing with right handed guitarists when we wonder about on small stages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Browning Posted October 31 Author Share Posted October 31 4 minutes ago, uk_lefty said: Loads of dints in the headstock from clashing with right handed guitarists when we wonder about on small stages. Should I ask what your signature guitarist looks like? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Some of mine have my logo on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 I made my own. These days it’s sporting a tort plate, but that’s just because it’s cold out! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tauzero Posted October 31 Share Posted October 31 Do the <50% of us who read the OP and not just the title get a special prize? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 If my instruments have any signature wear, it's from standing in my rack for too long in neglect... I'm not even kidding. Some of my guitars and basses have a light spot on the back of the neck where my rack blocks the sun. I have too many and only have a few in active rotation Currently it's my Sandberg Lionel, my Status S2 Classic 5-string and my Music Man Silhouette Special that get all the playtime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzbassist Posted November 2 Share Posted November 2 I'm very lucky to say already have it. My Franz Sirius DC, which features a chestnut top from a tree that came down in my parents garden. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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