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Nice bass trashed by a stupid kid

#62
Okay you were a mere 15 when you did that. The question is did you you think your bass really ' rawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwked ' after you did the job? If so, you accomplished what you set out to do in your youth. A bit of eventual maturing has now caught up with you, to make you ask " What the hell was I thinking? " Go ahead and take it in stride, and realize that most of us, if not all of us, have done things in our youth that now make us do the face palm of regret when we reflect upon them.
 
#63
If you really want to, you can restore that bass. You'd have to make a clean, straight cut across the area where the horn was cut off, then add a piece of wood to match and then shape it. Of course, the grain wouldn't match, but you could always finish it a solid color.

Bottom line - when it's wood, you can do a lot to restore and re-shape it. Just depends on how much work you want to get into.
 
#69
nerfbass said:
Could be worse. Back in HS (circa 1979) I knew a guy who committed a similar abomination to his pre-CBS Jazz. He cut the headstock so it came to a point, and moved the "G" tuner to the other side so he had a 3+1. Then he cut a slice off the lower body offset. Asked why he did it, he said something along the lines of "because it's mine, and I can do what I want with it".
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LOL! Yeah, but the first thing I thought of was how much practice time he gave up to spend that time butchering his bass. :bassist:
'course I'm somewhat of a hypocrit I guess because I've changed pick ups and strings, etc. and that takes time too.
 
#73
cassanova said:
+1

I remember wanting to carve into the first bass my parents got me when I was 16. The fear of the ass whoopin my dad would've given me kept me from doing so.
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I told my son, not that long ago, "If you get the urge to be 'creative', we can go and get you another pick guard, and you can go nuts on that instead". He can express himself, and I can save the value of his P-Bass......
 
#74
I'm repainting a guitar body I stripped a few months back. My Father bought me some really incompatable paints and having left it to dry for a few days I checked it out and the finish had sagged so badly I had to strip it there and then.

I've now painted it with hammerite paint. It was a natural guitar, now it has thick blue hammerite paint on it. Stupidity does not cease with teenagedom. I'm 21 and still wrecking instruments with my wild flights of fancy.

(It was an Aria stratocaster that belonged to a girlfriend I had a messy breakup with... so no love lost there).
 
#80
did you.........like totally forget that you did that to your bass for some reason???
obviously you trashed the hell out of it, but your incredibly short story seems funny.
cause it's like you didn't remember you did it at all, reopening it all excited and what not.. idk
 

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