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Noooooooooooo!!!!

#21
I know it kind of sucks to chip them first time out but it happens.To all you guys who can keep one pristine it's whole life,congrats.I'd like to know what kind of gigs you play.Sooner or later on a cramped stage you're gonna hit that sucker on something unless you literally don't move during a performance. In 76 my guitarist bought one of the new reissue Gibson Explorers. At the 2nd practice with it the strap let go and it fell to the floor. The neck popped completely out of the neck pocket. It only had 2 dots of glue holding it in. Major egg on Gibsons face for shoddy construction.To their credit they repaired it and he's never had a problem since. A little chip ain't sh*t! Play that thang!!!
 
#25
My strap came off on Wednesday and my bass hit the floor; I'd never really dropped it like that before, even after owning it for eight years. I think I'm even more attached to it now that its missing a chunk of paint than I was already.

But then I do love those relic Fenders; so much character.
 
#27
Sucks when its someone else that dings it, but hey now you can treat it like a working bass, not a collectors piece. I got my first ding the other day. It felt great. been babying my bass for 6 months. Im hoping in another 6 months ill be brave enough to throw it around like my old bass. Gotta get back to doing those bass spins the fans love.
 
#28
dj5 said:
Why does "mojo", (especially purposely "created"), only apply to basses?
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For basses, it only applies to vintage Fenders and basses people are trying to sell for more than their worth.

If I get a scratch or ding on my Sadowsky, it will not be mojo, it will be bugging eyes and bulging forehead veins.

:D
 
#29
StuartV said:
For basses, it only applies to vintage Fenders and basses people are trying to sell for more than their worth.

If I get a scratch or ding on my Sadowsky, it will not be mojo, it will be bugging eyes and bulging forehead veins.

:D
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True. For some reason Fenders take dings and chipped paint better than most other instruments. Most guitarists don't rejoice when they start stripping paint from their Les Pauls, but they grab a screwdriver and gouge chunks out of their new Strats.
 
#30
I don't think it's a matter of taking it better. In fact, the vintage Fenders with nitro (pre-68 or so) got their finish marred much easier than instruments with polyurethane paint.

I think it's that you can look at somebody playing a beat-up vintage Fender and easily imagine/believe that it looks the way it does because the player took good care of it, but, still, after 20 or 30 or 40 years, it looks the way it does because it's been played and played and played and it's just naturally worn into the condition it's in. You could imagine that it used to belong to Jamerson or Jaco. It adds a certain cachet.

Pretty much anything else and you know it looks like it does because it either wasn't taken very good care of or it was done on purpose. Either way, no cachet.
 
#32
I've had my 2010 mapleglo Rick for about three months and just a few weeks ago acquired a gash in the clear coat on the very top of the headstock. I can't wait until years later when the finish starts to peel
 
#33
It was on a stand to. He tripped over a chord and knocked it over. Clang " oh my god, I'm sorry dude." was the first thing out of his mouth. He felt so bad. Even text me this morning saying he was sorry again. It's ok,i just like giving him **** about it.
 
#35
I chipped the top of the headstock of my new bass. I had it only for a few weeks when this happened. I had the case on my bed, lifted the bass out to strap it on, then the headstock hit the ceiling. I was like, "This cannot be :mad:" Ah well like Forest Gump said, "It happens...sometimes."
 
#36
Ah, chips give it character! No biggie, mine has plenty of chips!

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#38
If it makes you feel any better, a friend of mine used to own a music store. A customer had put a Gibson ES 335 in layaway for months and finally got the scratch to get it out. My friend brought it out from the back and the opened up the case to show the buyer his guitar. The guy handed over the money and my friend closed and latched the case and wrote up his ticket. While he was doing the paper work, the customer says, "I just want to look at it again, hold it in my hands, I've been waiting so long for this." So he opens the case and takes it out for minute, strums a few chords and rips off a few licks. The store owner returns with the sales receipt and the buyer puts the guitar back in the case, takes his receipt and picks up the case by the handle. He takes three steps away from the counter and the case flops open, spilling the guitar onto the floor! The buyer, in all his excitement, had forgotten to latch the case. The fragile hollow body suffered a cracked headstock and separated top.
 
#39
Broadstbully22 said:
My new bass got chipped at tonights gig. Ruined the whole night tonight. Only three weeks old, aaaahhhhhhhh. Lol. I guess it gives it character. Stupid drummer. lol.
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My 'good' bass (Washburn T24) sustained damage from a faulty zipper on a gig bag after I had it a handful of weeks.

It was at a party gig in somebody's flat, and it fell out at the top of some stairs. I had been drinking on the job so I had a devil of a job stopping it bumping down the stairs. I woke up the next day thinking 'whoa I had a dream I punted a dent in my new bass', then I checked the bass and lo and behold a rather large dent.


A lot of my other basses/bass necks have cymbal dents in the headstock.

I'm all for it, it makes them look like I utilise them. They are not collectors instruments so I can always refinish or strip them if it gets too bad.
 
#40
All you folks who like some "mojo" on your bass,

. . . .let me ask you something . . .
If you've ever bought a new car, does it make you feel better
if somebody walks up and kicks in your drivers door for you?

How about scraping the side up against a pole at the gas station.

How about we take a blowtorch to that nasty shiny finish for you?

Ohhhh Dat's sooo BEE-YOU-TEE-FULL! Rigggght.


I once had a beautiful Dakota Red Fender Jazz Bass that came
off the tail strap and dropped down onto a cement floor removing
a quarter-sized chunk right down to the wood. :eek:

The guys in the band thought it was "cool".
(I wanted to choke them all :eyebrow:

Sold the bass the next week on Craigslist.
I couldn't stand to look at it. :crying:

Immediately bought a pristine used one. :p ahhhhhhh - - -
- - - -much better now - - -

:cool:
 

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