What does your signature bass look like?

[christhammer666]

pretty much a replica of the matt freeman precision but with heavy pick marks on the plate above the e string

[BigRedX]

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 Wednesday at 14:59 by BigRedX

[Baloney Balderdash]

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.

[police squad]

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)

[ahpook]

18 hours ago, bassbiscuits said:

...some horizontal long surface scratches across the front from reckless pick playing.

 

 

 

This !

 

[Steve Browning]

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.

[police squad]

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!!

[Skybone]

Probably:

 

[uk_lefty]

Loads of dints in the headstock from clashing with right handed guitarists when we wonder about on small stages.

[Steve Browning]

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?

[prowla]

Some of mine have my logo on them.

[paul_5]

I made my own. These days it’s sporting a tort plate, but that’s just because it’s cold out!

[tauzero]

Do the <50% of us who read the OP and not just the title get a special prize?

[LeftyJ]

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. 

[franzbassist]

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.