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03-28-2010, 05:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | | When someone says, "Let me show you.."
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Don't believe them!!! I was changing the battery in my bass and I was having a hard time getting the backplate off, and my boyfriend goes, "Here. Let me show you.. " and grabs a flat-head screwdriver and popped it off, alright.. but left a big scratch in it. GRRRRRRR. It was flawless up until now. I've only had it 4 months. 
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03-28-2010, 05:59 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | take the same size nick out of him...problem solved |
03-28-2010, 06:03 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | If it helps any, about all used basses have chips or scratches around the cover. The good side of it is, now you can identify it. 20 years from now you could see it hanging in a shop and say That was MY bass!
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03-28-2010, 06:13 PM
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Originally Posted by hdracer  If it helps any, about all used basses have chips or scratches around the cover. The good side of it is, now you can identify it. 20 years from now you could see it hanging in a shop and say That was MY bass! | I bought it new.. and I will never sell this bass. It's my first and I'm in love with it. Though, I'm looking for a 5 string, this bass will always be my favorite. It means a lot to me. He DOES have a bass, too.. but it's a Fender Marcus Miller Jazz bass, and I don't think I could bring myself to do harm to that to spite him. Lol.
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03-28-2010, 06:28 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | I know how you feel. I have been through it with all my basses. Last night I took my Gibson out to play it (just got it last week) and I noticed a small dent & scratch in the back of it. I have no idea how or when it happened, but it was there. I felt like I got punched. I was so bummed I couldn't even play. I'm better today, and I think it sounds better, it's getting some mojo. Well, that's what I tell myself... lol
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03-28-2010, 06:31 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Grand Rapids, MI | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer I know how you feel. I have been through it with all my basses. Last night I took my Gibson out to play it (just got it last week) and I noticed a small dent & scratch in the back of it. I have no idea how or when it happened, but it was there. I felt like I got punched. I was so bummed I couldn't even play. I'm better today, and I think it sounds better, it's getting some mojo. Well, that's what I tell myself... lol | Hahaha. I'll try to stay positive. His Marcus Miller has been dropped repeatedly by his bands bass player, so I guess that all just happens.. :P
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03-28-2010, 09:35 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Tampa, Florida, US | | | Meh. Basses are meant to be played and gigged with imo, so they'll develop scratches over the course of their life. My basses get jostled around, dropped, banged into walls, etc all the time.
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03-28-2010, 09:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Mikaela Ellinge ...my boyfriend goes, "Here. Let me show you.. " and grabs a flat-head screwdriver and popped it off, alright.. but left a big scratch in it. GRRRRRRR. | Look at it this way: any time you need ammo for a guilt trip... 
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03-28-2010, 09:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Framingham, Massachusetts | | | next time you're.. down there.. say "i'll show you" and then bite him!
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03-28-2010, 09:58 PM
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03-28-2010, 10:19 PM
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03-28-2010, 11:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Up the street from Fender... | | | I'd kick his butt but yeah basses never stay perfect. Nobody messes with mine so if there's a nick, I did it.
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03-29-2010, 02:29 AM
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03-29-2010, 03:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Leeds, UK | | | At the end of the day, basses are a tool. If you are constantly worrying about damaging them then you won't be able to get full use out of them. Just accept it as being part of life, and next time it gets damaged you won't be as bothered because it's not the first time.
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03-29-2010, 04:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Hey, I'm sure Marcus Miller had a few fretjobs in his iconic bass' life. Start a trend with yer BF's copy.
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03-29-2010, 04:59 AM
|  | That's the way uh huh uh huh I like it.. | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Robbinsville, NJ | | | meh, it happens..
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03-29-2010, 06:47 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | The first cut is the deepest. The next inevitable ding won't hurt nearly as much. It does suck when someone else has the honor of producing the first blemish though.
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03-29-2010, 07:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Bridgewater, Virginia | | | My guitarist dropped his guitar on the driveway yesterday and took a little chunk out of the body. He was pretty upset by that.
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03-29-2010, 07:13 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: (M)a$$hole. | | Phalex, do you even realize how, um.... *odd* that avatar is?
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03-29-2010, 07:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lakeland, FL | | I'd get some polishing compound and tell him he'll be RUBBING IT OUT until the scratch is gone  | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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