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Show us your Stickered Up Basses!

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Here is my early 80's Gibson Explorer that slowly got the sticker treatment I'd say over 8-10 years.....by the time I realized that it was a fairly valuable bass it was too late. (plus Gibson basses in general went way up in the late 90's, I got this for 300 or 350 way back in the early 90's) I like it though, I know I will never sell it so shag it, I'll keep it as is. A lot of memories of crazy times in some of those stickers!! But damn.........it IS a Gibson Explorer. At least I didn't cover it in sparkly nail polish like I did my black Gibson Thunderbird Bass which I then had to completely strip to bare wood.

LMAO at "Dick practice" on the explorer
 
MIJ '51 P Bass .. Rio Grande"Muy Grande" pickup with paper and oil cap installed.. View attachment 1010222

I've never been a fan of that style of bass, because I don't like the way the tiny pickup looks, and I think the pick guards are unattractive. Covering up the pickup and putting those awesome stickers on there...that is bass I would rock any day of the week! Very nicely done.
 
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No full-size pic on this PC(still at work, after "normal working hours"). Got it for $60 + shipping from Japan, NOTHING wrong with it except stickers....Japan folks tend to discount for blemishes. It's about to have pickup rings & StrapLocs added so it can go out to gigs even though it was originally bought as a "parts" bass.

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