| The safest way to lose the least amount of plating is to hit it with a soft bristle toothbrush and some denatured alcohol. The alc will cut the mung and the soft brush will remove it AND the already peeled plating, but it won't lift any additional plating or scratch the intact plating. Don't chance doing this on the bass though. If it's got any age on it and the old fashioned nitro finish to go along with that age, denatured alcohol, or any solvent worth it's name for that matter, could well damage that finish. I'd remove any metal I wanted to clean prior to doing so.
That said, you might want to try selling it as is before you clean it up. There is no accounting for why some folks think old and effed up is so cool, but I suspect it has everything to do with that mysterious thing called stage presence, because it has zero, zilch, &^(# all, to do with playability. It's kinda like modern day hippies walking around wearing distressed designer clothes that cost mumsy and pop pop a couple grand. But poser gear has always been expensive, so it wouldn't surprise me if you could sell it as is for more than it would fetch cleaned up.
There is no shortage of folks who will pay a premium to pretend someone else's sweat is their own.
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Last edited by fhm555 : 04-05-2011 at 11:14 AM.
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