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Danelectro Coral Deluxe Bass project

#183
Beej said:
Right? Every time I come across something vintage, it's been cleaned and repaired and is being sold for every penny the seller thinks they can get, so like at least triple a reasonable price. :D
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Here is the same model - Very similar to the Teisco Del Rey with the 2 rocker-switches up top and edge-dash neck position markers.

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JIO said:
pic?
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I think the blue one actually started out as a guitar body but they were made relatively interchangeable back then. Like I said, someone before me cut out behind the bridge but I kind of like it that way. The neck was off of a “Tulip” bass that I thought the body was done for on. If I knew what I know now, maybe it wasn’t, hard to say. The bass neck dropped right in. Incidentally, it’s showing up on my phone as the wrong shade of blue. I guess the camera doesn’t register it correctly.

I include the other picture because the Teisco neck was on that body for a long time but, after I refinished the blue body, I sanded off the crappy burst I did many years ago and refinished that body also. A GFS tort blank and a cheap Ibby short scale neck off of eBay later and there she is. I know the pickguard is kind of klunky but the big ol’ control cavity route was done when I got the body many years ago. I just got that one assembled and set up today.

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Picked up the Coral DB's bridge cover #2 - too bad they had to do it twice, but #2 is exactly as I designed. Just need to age it a bit. If anyone has tips on how to 'age' stainless steel, let me know. It just looks so 'new' (compared to the chrome control plate) and even if it was mostly stored in the case for 51 years, it shouldn't look so fresh.

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Jon Clegg said:
Here are a few ideas:

How to Antique Stainless Steel
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Awesome! The coffee grounds + heating seems like a good place to start - I'd rather it be a metal effect than some sort of applied paint or whatever as the other examples describe. Since they gave me the cover #1, (what were they going to do with it?) I can do tests on it before effecting cover #2.
 
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#192
wraub said:
ScotchBrite, then fuming?

Dragged on a rope behind a bicycle?

Skipped across a lakeside parking lot?

Hammer, keys, cola, repeat?
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WADR, this is what I dislike about most entry-level views on the distressing/aging process. One needs to go way back to the history of effected furniture to get a grasp of what 'distressing' encapsulates. Its foray into guitars is fairly recent - 25-30 years. Furniture finishers have been using this technique for far longer, and there's no cynicism or machismo attached - never was. The concept of making furniture look old has no stigma attached. It's a look, a style, an assimilation of a piece of furniture to 'fit' within a genre , a period, a style, a counter balance... sorry - I'm so sick of the dragging behind a pick-up truck analogy.
 
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No worries, was going for the humorous angle, not really offering options.
Worked the last 12 days, may not be as humorous as intended. ;)

Of course I appreciate the finer work involved... I'm older than you. :D ...and, have always supported your work.
I've actually seen furniture, and other older things, aged in ways that might shock you...
At sale time, no one knows...:D ;) (a bicycle is not a pickup truck)

Also...WADR? :D

JIO said:
WADR, this is what I dislike about most entry-level views on the distressing/aging process. One needs to go way back to the history of effected furniture to get a grasp of what 'distressing' encapsulates. Its foray into guitars is fairly recent - 25-30 years. Furniture finishers have been using this technique for far longer, and there's no cynicism or machismo attached - never was. The concept of making furniture look old has no stigma attached. It's a look, a style, an assimilation of a piece of furniture to 'fit' within a genre , a period, a style, a counter balance... sorry - I'm so sick of the dragging behind a pick-up truck analogy.
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wraub said:
No worries, was going for the humorous angle, not really offering options.
Worked the last 12 days, may not be as humorous as intended. ;)

Of course I appreciate the finer work involved... I'm older than you.
I've actually seen furniture, and other older things, aged in ways that might shock you...
At sale time, no one knows...:D ;) (a bicycle is not a pickup truck)

Also...WADR? :D
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with all due respect (and I mean that wraub) - but sorry, it's just me - I respect what language is and inadvertantly implies too much and I personally avoid cliques that propagate the accepted popular (regardless of humor) 'norm'. (since we're talking age...) As in - "old fart", a term I hate and never say/use. Life is a slippery slope and if one refers to themselves as such - they are there. I'm 66 yrs (young) and have plenty I could complain about age-wise... but I choose to live w/o dragging the anchor of age. The aches and pains are a part of it we have limited control of - our attitude towards life at any age has no limit. Agree? :)
 
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Okay, I'm not older than you :D

But, old enough to understand that "norms" are social, and creativity is above norms... Social conventions are meant to be questioned, or, what else is creativity for? ;) Also, I've never been in a clique. :D

I have few complaints about age, they come with the territory... Also, words are just things, emotions are the reality. ;)
If the intent is good, or even bad, the words are just the skin that holds them in place, but, they don't define the sentiment. Sometimes, silly is just silly. ;)

I have seen many things, good and bad, and can reference them, for serious or other...
In all, we're debating emotions about wood and wire, and, really, who's too old for that? :D






JIO said:
with all due respect (and I mean that wraub) - but sorry, it's just me - I respect what language is and inadvertantly implies too much and I personally avoid cliques that propagate the accepted popular (regardless of humor) 'norm'. (since we're talking age...) As in - "old fart", a term I hate and never say/use. Life is a slippery slope and if one refers to themselves as such - they are there. I'm 66 yrs (young) and have plenty I could complain about age-wise... but I choose to live w/o dragging the anchor of age. The aches and pains are a part of it we have limited control of - our attitude towards life at any age has no limit. Agree? :)
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Coffee was a start abet subtle. I have an electric range so I layed it on the surface until it got hot and set it in a bed of wet coffee grounds (Peets of course!) Did a number of passes both shifting it in the gounds and sprinkling grounds on top when it was hot. Also used a kitchen sponge with a scrubber-side wet with some Lava soap to soften the sheen. I sprayed Easy Off oven cleaner on it which added some mild etching. It didn't need to be distressed as much as looking like it's been around. Comparatively stainless is more silver looking than nickel chrome so it will never look the same. As it is there's the control cover and pu's/surrounds are different also - they are all metal at the end of the day.

I can now close the "completest" door on this bass project and just enjoy playing it - which I very much do. I've been using it lately for TSC's rehearsals and liking how it fits. We have a bunch of shows coming up and it will definitely get some live air-time. I will try the bass w/cover on at rehearsal tomorrow to test if it gets in my way or not. Two screws and it's off if it does.

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Pluses and minuses - the wide low flat surface of the bridge cover makes for a very comfy palm rest. I play close to the bridge and so it leaves my picking at an ideal location. However... it isn't conducive to palm-muting which I always incorporate. So.., no bridge cover for anything other than a photo shoot. I tried inserting a thin slice of foam (as mute) but I don't want deadened strings all the time. I've never used the nut-location hair wrap thingy but I don't know if I'd like that either. No, palm-muting is ideal for muting when you want and not muting when you want open ringing notes.
 
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JIO said:
Pluses and minuses - the wide low flat surface of the bridge cover makes for a very comfy palm rest. I play close to the bridge and so it leaves my picking at an ideal location. However... it isn't conducive to palm-muting which I always incorporate. So.., no bridge cover for anything other than a photo shoot. I tried inserting a thin slice of foam (as mute) but I don't want deadened strings all the time. I've never used the nut-location hair wrap thingy but I don't know if I'd like that either. No, palm-muting is ideal for muting when you want and not muting when you want open ringing notes.
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I put a bridge cover on a bass recently and immediately discovered it was not compatible with my playing style for the same reason, it interfered with palm muting. :meh:
 
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Beej said:
I put a bridge cover on a bass recently and immediately discovered it was not compatible with my playing style for the same reason, it interfered with palm muting. :meh:
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Every time I see a Jazz bass with both covers I like the way it looks but think 'restriction'. Since I play over the bridge pu mostly I do have one J with the neck pu cover, mostly just for the way it looks.

I do have a couple of basses with a bridge cover I can live with. Both have flats. The Teisco Del Rey doesn't get live duty and it's pretty thumpy/pillowy w/o needing to palm-mute but the Custom Kraft "Bone Buzzer" does and really benefits from palm-muting.

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