You have options on the string ferrules if you leave them in place. Tape them up with blue tape before you work on the finish prep, then replace the tape if needed to get a good clean line when you paint. Another option is tape for prep, then get some liquid mask and paint the ferrules with it. Put a piece of tape over the ferrules then cut it close to leave them exposed with no wood showing around the edges, cover them with liquid mask, let it dry and paint.
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Advice on refinishing a "road worn" model
- Thread starter ElCrowg
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Once posts get released into the wild they will go where they go. Yours is sort of an outlandish concept and people will tell you that. I've no advice on the refinish but will counsel that commenters will rubberneck the concept - I'm one of them. Filter what you think is noise but trying to stop it might be a little crazier than the refinish.
That sounds like a LOT of work for something that is easily popped out after applying heat with a soldering iron.
It's not even remotely outlandish considering that he posted it in the Luthier's Corner. Here, we consult on ideas openly and even undertake them once in a while.
Me: "please be respectful."
This guy: "No, and that's an unreasonable thing to ask."
lol. ok.
At the end of the day, it's all good.
I never, ever go to Luthier's Corner or mind where something is posted. It's all thrown in to general population where people will think it is crazy and say so. Trying to tell people not to say so isn't going to perhaps have the results the OP was hoping for.It's not even remotely outlandish considering that he posted it in the Luthier's Corner. Here, we consult on ideas openly and even undertake them once in a while.
That of course is not at all what I said. But I'm not going to tell you not to say so.
I don't think this post has much more relevance than the first one.
I didn't expect you to agree. But I wouldn't tell you not to say so. (Of course, the relevant fact that you could mind is that many people don't give a whiz as to what forum something is posted. It all goes to one place).I don't think this post has much more relevance than the first one.
Moderator insert: it's sometimes tough to discern "tone" in the written word, I am asking all to simply get back on topic about refinishing the bass in question.
That sounds like a LOT of work for something that is easily popped out after applying heat with a soldering iron.
Sounds like a plan Joshua! Back to the questions at hand- Beej, you mentioned that pulling the ferrules is pretty easy with some heat. I've not done that before- I'd be up for it if it's that simple. Does that usually go smoothly or are there big risks of tearing some wood, too? I've definitely had to do some repairs to wood gouges/tears in the past, but I'd hope to avoid it if possible on this one.
OP said they were concerned about taking them out. I offered alternatives to removing them. Sorry for any confusion.That sounds like a LOT of work for something that is easily popped out after applying heat with a soldering iron.
All good, I didn't mean to come off like a Richard Cranium, but I totally did.
Naaah. No worries mate.All good, I didn't mean to come off like a Richard Cranium, but I totally did.
Shell pink sunglasses, and don't mess with the feel you like.
I mean, you can do what you like, it's your bass; but that's my response to reading the first post here.
You could screw up the feel of a thing that you like and use daily in the quest to make it yours and shell pink...
I mean, you can do what you like, it's your bass; but that's my response to reading the first post here.
You could screw up the feel of a thing that you like and use daily in the quest to make it yours and shell pink...
Outlandish works a little differently in Luthier's Corner. There was a thread last year from a guy who replaced the neck on his Carvin neck-through bass.
People here are a little more eager to take extreme measures for dubious ends than they are in other parts of talkbass, and are happy to advise each other from their own experiences on how to go about it, all while remarking on how wild it is to want to do it at all.
