SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!

[Cuzzie]

What’s the woodgrain lurking underneath the SB?

 

[JIO]

Mother of Toiletseat would be even better.

It would do a similar visual thing that the tort is doing - which is dueling textures. If black, or white/mint or even gold anodized, the pg wouldn't compete texturally with the sparkle finish and instead would highlight/showcase it. The meat-colored tort also competes with the reds in the 3T burst. I'd still go with B/W/B.

 

[gtlover]

It would do a similar visual thing that the tort is doing - which is dueling textures. If black, or white/mint or even gold anodized, the pg wouldn't compete texturally with the sparkle finish and instead would highlight/showcase it. The meat-colored tort also competes with the reds in the 3T burst. I'd still go with B/W/B.

Good point. If only it was rear routed, you could go clear!

 

[mdogs]

 

[JIO]

Good point. If only it was rear routed, you could go clear!

Yep - with a sparkle finish a pg is just in the way.

 

[2saddleslab]

Yeah, you've seen 'em before but can't help myself.

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

Yeah, you've seen 'em before but can't help myself.
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I don't get tired of that...keep going.

 

[M-rek]

Here's a rattlecan refinish I made some weeks ago. It's a cheap Vintage Icon V4 P bass which had the factory-relic sunburst finish. I oversprayed it with white primer, lake placid blue and a clear coat and then carefully relic'd it.

 

[Kubicki Fan]

Here's a rattlecan refinish I made some weeks ago. It's a cheap Vintage Icon V4 P bass which had the factory-relic sunburst finish. I oversprayed it with white primer, lake placid blue and a clear coat and then carefully relic'd it.
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Tasteful & Subtil.

 

[SJLee]

Here's a rattlecan refinish I made some weeks ago. It's a cheap Vintage Icon V4 P bass which had the factory-relic sunburst finish. I oversprayed it with white primer, lake placid blue and a clear coat and then carefully relic'd it.
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Looks great and reminds me of the older relic finishes of Frank Cunetto. Well done!

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

Here's a rattlecan refinish I made some weeks ago. It's a cheap Vintage Icon V4 P bass which had the factory-relic sunburst finish. I oversprayed it with white primer, lake placid blue and a clear coat and then carefully relic'd it.
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That looks nice man. I like that you were hip to the subtle layering of the finishes where the wear through the layers is sort of like a topographical map of color which looks more natural than when people just go at it with a bit more fervor.

 

[M-rek]

Tasteful & Subtil.

Thanks! That's exactly what I was going for ;-)

Looks great and reminds me of the older relic finishes of Frank Cunetto. Well done!

Thank you very much!

That looks nice man. I like that you were hip to the subtle layering of the finishes where the wear through the layers is sort of like a topographical map of color which looks more natural than when people just go at it with a bit more fervor.

Thanks I made a few nitro finishes in the past and my first relics were a bit more over-the-top. Wanted to go the subtle route with this one and I'm very pleased with it too!

 

[JIO]

I'd like to encourage everyone, especially anyone new to my thread to visit/re-visit post #840 which offers some ground rules regarding our topic. After 130 pages we have a pretty good record of keeping it positive, keeping it all about our aesthetic appreciation of distressed finished basses - and I'm looking forward to 130 pages more!

 

[Will_White]

I'd like to encourage everyone, especially anyone new to my thread to visit/re-visit post #840 which offers some ground rules regarding our topic. After 130 pages we have a pretty good record of keeping it positive, keeping it all about our aesthetic appreciation of distressed finished basses - and I'm looking forward to 130 pages more!

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Is that a relic? The wear behind the bridge seems odd.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

Is that a relic? The wear behind the bridge seems odd.

ungraceful changing strings...

BUT is does say Fender custom shop. Looks like John Cruz's work

 

[/\/\3phist0]

83 SB1:
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Forgot to add that I worked at G&L when this was made. Likely i had my hands in the production at one point (liukely the neck, my main station) and it went out into the world and into the hands of a funk / slap / thumb player who "loved it up"
and it found its way back to me.

 

[JIO]

Is that a relic? The wear behind the bridge seems odd.

My '66 P has string-changing wear there - (though not as much...)

 

[JIO]

ungraceful changing strings...

BUT is does say Fender custom shop. Looks like John Cruz's work

Yes, it's a FCS bass.

 

[Will_White]

I didn't notice the Custom Shop logo on my phone.

My '66 P has string-changing wear there - (though not as much...)

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Interesting, that's not something I would think to be much of a thing, but I suppose over 50 years it's had a fair number of string changes. I'll have to keep that in mind for future relics. If it wasn't for the distinct line to the E string I would have attributed that to strap wear.

 

[JIO]

These might have been posted in the past (from eBay) but have popped up again - '63 P

originally Oly White - looks like nicotine related... probably smells like an ashtray.

late 70's P