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Is it wrong to sticker your bass?
- Thread starter xXMoonichoXx
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I put stickers all over my first P-bass. I thought it looked awesome at the time...then I grew up and decided to try and remove them. It took forever. ruined the pickguard, and I ended up just refinishing the whole thing (learning how NOT to refinish a bass in the process) If you want to, go for it. But just like a bad tattoo you may look back and regret it one day.
Its your instrument, do what you want with it. However putting stickers on your instrument can hurt its resale value (if you ever plan on selling it)
The amount of elitism and condescension in this thread is phenomenal. Big reason why I quit visiting so often.
Kiddo, if you want to put a sticker on your bass, put a sticker on your bass. Its that easy. If you're more worried about reselling your bass than you are enjoying it and playing, there are other issues that need addressed.
Kiddo, if you want to put a sticker on your bass, put a sticker on your bass. Its that easy. If you're more worried about reselling your bass than you are enjoying it and playing, there are other issues that need addressed.
It isnt right or wrong, its your Bass do whatever you want with it...
Let's be honest here. We all know that putting stickers on musical instruments leads to criminal activity; usually murder; human trafficking and racketeering. If that's where you want your life to lead, go ahead and put that sticker on, mister. But decent folks would never hear of such a thing.
~Julie Butsnif
League of Annoying People
~Julie Butsnif
League of Annoying People
Talk to Julie. As far as I know, she's into that. As long as you use plenty of onions...
My personal opinion is that it's a bit immature and disrespectful to your instrument. But, is it WRONG? I would say it's up to you. It's mere opinion and a matter of taste.
Tattoos
Bumper stickers
Piercings
Decals on your guitar
...all things that are a reflection of, and extension of, your personality. People assess you based on the messages these things send and treat you accordingly.
Choose wisely.
Bumper stickers
Piercings
Decals on your guitar
...all things that are a reflection of, and extension of, your personality. People assess you based on the messages these things send and treat you accordingly.
Choose wisely.
Depends on what you are auditioning for. A wedding band? You are right. But if it's a rock outfit and you can PLAY, then it shouldn't matter what your bass looks like. Same elitist crap I see all over talkbass. I'm finally over it. I do play American Fenders and pro rigs (like Hartke) but I also know the only people who give a crap about that are me and the one bass player in the crowd every four gigs. It doesn't matter. I just recently played a "cheapo Squire" at Sam Ash and it was pretty cool. And you know what? No one but me would care what the logo is on it. And 98.4% of the audience wouldn't notice the difference in tone.
To me it depends on the instrument. I agree with our guitarists for example. Im not a fan of stickers on a transparent finish where you can see the woodgrain. On the other hand for a solid finish I think they can spice things up a bit. Here's a couple of his guitars. Picture quality isn't that great but the green guitar is a transparent finish. He never puts stickers on it. The black guitar has had a number of different stickers on it.
aalso at the moment it doesn't have any and you can't tell he ever had stickers on it. I think the type of stickers you put on and how long you leave hem on it have an impact as well. I believe he uses vinyl stickers. I'm really not sure of the material but I know they aren't the paper stickers that deteriorate over time.
Currently my basses are see through and natural finishes. No stickers. But I've been thinking of picking up a certain bass that's solid black and yeah it'll be getting stickers
Currently my basses are see through and natural finishes. No stickers. But I've been thinking of picking up a certain bass that's solid black and yeah it'll be getting stickers
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Lowendtech
Happily trending in my own peculiar direction.
It probably is - you can see my almost 40 year old Ric in my profile picture. Its got a lot of miles on it and still looks good.
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My wife has a "visiting Disneyland" guidebook that says you should write you phone # on your kids in Sharpie.
