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Ibanez Steam Punk. None more black.
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Do you apply any custom decorations to your instrument?
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What a frightening sticker. That kid looks like the got the message with the knife in his face. And Reddy's serial killer facial expression.
Amen on the expensive Fender rubber strap gaskets. Never trust a strap or a guitar stand. Stewie, is the dog named Mac?
Black saddles on a chrome bridge really makes the J pickups pop. Which in turn makes the most of the chrome knobs. It's understated but very nice.
Every instrument I've ever owned for any length of time(once I knew it was a keeper) had gotten modded and or custom painted. I've done everything myself, so they're far from perfect finishes but I think look way cooler than they did originally.
I'm really surprised how so few musicians do though. For people that are so creative, you would think you would see way more custom creations, instead you see a plain solid color P or J bass 90 percent of the time. Guitar players are just as guilty. With a million options at your fingertips, everyone seems to just go with a plain strat or les Paul.
Here's my main players......
I'm really surprised how so few musicians do though. For people that are so creative, you would think you would see way more custom creations, instead you see a plain solid color P or J bass 90 percent of the time. Guitar players are just as guilty. With a million options at your fingertips, everyone seems to just go with a plain strat or les Paul.
Here's my main players......
I put the metal emblem from a 1967 Galaxie 500 on a P-Bass years ago. It was my first P-Bass and I loved it, but found it big and hard to maneuver - just like a Galaxie 500!
Judging by your avatar pic it is ice axes in Mexico you need to worry about there Leon, not overripe produce.
Almost forgot, I put a 1972 Maverick emblem on my Peavey Zodiac BXP bass. It had a jazz neck that was easy to "drive" just like the Maverick!
Generally, no. But on my very first bass (which I still own), I put a "Metallica ninja star" around one of the knobs. It was a black bass and a white sticker. I feel it is somewhat tasteful, not over the top, and looks pretty good. I have no plans to do anything else to any of my basses, though I have contemplated adding some fret stickers to a guitar I have that has no fret markers. But that's been a few years and it hasn't happened. Similarly, I've debated getting a pickguard made for another guitar, but it doesn't have one stock, so I'd have to attach it via double-sided tape because I don't want to drill holes in the body. Again - been years and it hasn't happened.
My bass was used to me, and had a black pickguard when I got (see my profile pic) it. I always wanted to change it to black pearl, although it took me about 12 years to get around to actually doing it. Later, I discovered from Ernie Ball that my bass actually originally shipped with a white pearl pickguard.
If I didn’t love the black pearl with the Transparent Gold (or other transparent stain color) look so much, I’d get myself one of those snazzy Alperious pickguards. I love his work, I just don’t have a bass in current need of a new pickguard.
If I didn’t love the black pearl with the Transparent Gold (or other transparent stain color) look so much, I’d get myself one of those snazzy Alperious pickguards. I love his work, I just don’t have a bass in current need of a new pickguard.
Wasn’t a fan of the chrome hardware on my old Warwick, but eventually embraced it and took it a step further with the EMG Riptide (Trujillo) pickups. Wasn’t easy, I had to sand down the bottoms of the pickup covers to get them in the routes and still be adjustable (sanding scratches are non-visible installed).
With this one, well, when I was about 5, my older Stepbrother had a die cast GT40 MK.II model in Gulf Oil livery that I was in love with. Got this Squier and I just had to pay homage to that toy.
Sure, uh, new tuners, high mass bridge, orange drop cap, Switchcraft jack, all pretty common cosmetic mods these days 
Yep, a little country band I was in played mostly in the wilds of the panhandle of NW Florida where no bar served anything in glass containers, and we were offered the opportunity to play a big event the bar owner dubbed “the grand reopening after the shootin”.
I saw plenty fights with lots of blood, teeth knocked out, and jaws broken, but the worst was a guy got a big smile carved across his belly and was struggling to hold his intestines in. It happened right in front of the bandstand and when it did we stopped playing, but as soon as we did the owner/bartender yelled and told us to keep playing.
Great times I tell ya; great times indeed.
I’m originally from Mobile. Gigged a bit along the Gulf Coast in the early 2000’s and some of the stuff I saw and experienced I can’t even write on TB. Let’s just say I grew up pretty fast.
gonna do matching blue with an Eye of Horus on my Geddy USA you can’t stop me!
