Hi guys
TLDR: I wasted too many hours, doing very little work to a valueless bass. Spot the difference in the pictures below.
I have this old Stagg, was my first bass, one of the cheapest basses I have seen to date, if we exclude 2nd hand. My father paid the hefty sum of $80 for it, which included a cable, strap and gigbag. I think the shop owner just wanted to get rid of it.
My idea behind this rebuild, if it's fair to call it that, was to mostly get rid of the blue, because it's nowhere near my top-10 of colours, and do as much work I can without paying more than what the bass cost in the first place, so $80 budget.
Everything, including strings, had to fit within that budget.
Everything I needed had to be purchased from local shops.
Any tools I needed, had to be purchased within that budget aswell.
This is what I started with.
After many many many hours of sanding, by hand, I finally made it through to the raw wood (only missed a couple of spots). Went through many types of sandpaper, up to a P1000.
Didn't really have a plan from that point, but decided to try a burst effect using woodstains, with yellow in the center fading out into violet. But as you can probably guess, sealers, primers and all that glorious stuff was not within my budget.
Started baptising it with the stains and it acted like a sponge, as expected... So I left it to dry out for a while, before coming at it with a can of nitro and it acted like a sponge, again... Who knew, when you do everything wrong, nitro turns yellow and violet into mahogany?
Unfortunately I had to get more nitro, they're like bags of chips, a lot of gas and not a lot of content. It could do with a few more layers, but I got a decent result in the end.
Let me introduce!
The Duckly Ugling!
Thank you for looking and maybe reading my dreary story above, hope you like it.
benne^
TLDR: I wasted too many hours, doing very little work to a valueless bass. Spot the difference in the pictures below.
I have this old Stagg, was my first bass, one of the cheapest basses I have seen to date, if we exclude 2nd hand. My father paid the hefty sum of $80 for it, which included a cable, strap and gigbag. I think the shop owner just wanted to get rid of it.
My idea behind this rebuild, if it's fair to call it that, was to mostly get rid of the blue, because it's nowhere near my top-10 of colours, and do as much work I can without paying more than what the bass cost in the first place, so $80 budget.
Everything, including strings, had to fit within that budget.
Everything I needed had to be purchased from local shops.
Any tools I needed, had to be purchased within that budget aswell.
This is what I started with.
After many many many hours of sanding, by hand, I finally made it through to the raw wood (only missed a couple of spots). Went through many types of sandpaper, up to a P1000.
Didn't really have a plan from that point, but decided to try a burst effect using woodstains, with yellow in the center fading out into violet. But as you can probably guess, sealers, primers and all that glorious stuff was not within my budget.
Started baptising it with the stains and it acted like a sponge, as expected... So I left it to dry out for a while, before coming at it with a can of nitro and it acted like a sponge, again... Who knew, when you do everything wrong, nitro turns yellow and violet into mahogany?
Unfortunately I had to get more nitro, they're like bags of chips, a lot of gas and not a lot of content. It could do with a few more layers, but I got a decent result in the end.
Let me introduce!
The Duckly Ugling!
Thank you for looking and maybe reading my dreary story above, hope you like it.
benne^
and did something cool with it.
I'm hearing it in the voice of Jeremy Clarkson 
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