SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!

[JimmyM]

"Rat rods" and "rat bikes" started out purely as tools expressly used for their purpose regardless of appearance, or at least the standardized "appearance" of a conventional car/truck or motorcycle. It also was born of gear-heads who were constantly tinkering with the vehicles, and using/driving them while doing so. So a gray primer'd fender - whatever. A front-end from another car? - sure, why not? It's the "customizer guys" (primarily guys in this case) and their "work in progress". The point where "customizer" became "rat rod" was the time it was driven/used between modifications, and finally the visual appreciation that 'insiders' started acknowledging of what these "works in progress" actually looked like. So R&R - so gnarly but tight - and with a "care less" attitude/vibe. List them under "distressed", "weathered", "work in progress" or whatever - the "look" is a big thing - and filled with so many anti-"high gloss" perfectionist wet-dreams BS aspects - create it and use it is what it shouts! Screw perfection (in the established sense) and celebrate a perfect imperfection!

OK, well that certainly describes my Fender. All started in 82 with a can of blue Schwinn bicycle paint, that Schaller bridge and a set of Duncan Hot Stack J pickups, soon replaced by EMG PJ's. Only original parts are the body and neck plate. None of them are cheap parts, but it's always had a ratty homemade look about it once I trashed the original finish, and especially does now.

OK, I'm a rat-rodder. Time to line up for my tattoo.

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

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Jazzmaster's are the sexiest 6 banger ever. I've had a couple of nice old ones and wish I still did. I'm just limping along with a strat now but I'm lousy at little guitar anyway. I keep one around for writing, show the guitarist what the idea is, then ask him to do it with the proficiency I lack. Yours is a beaut man.

 

[DirkP]

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Do daphne blue basses have a higher risk of getting this skin disease? I'll tell Daphne that she's not alone.

 

[Mantis Tobaggan]

Do daphne blue basses have a higher risk of getting this skin disease? I'll tell Daphne that she's not alone.

Just don’t take her to the beach.

 

[JimmyM]

Redid my bass to tone down the punk aesthetic and add more black. I think it's better this time.

 

[JIO]

Just don’t take her to the beach.

I don't know, "Daphne by the beach" has a nice ring to it...

 

[JIO]

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Redid my bass to tone down the punk aesthetic and add more black. I think it's better this time.

kitty thinks ... "I don't get it, if I scratched it I'd get scolded!"

 

[JimmyM]

kitty thinks ... "I don't get it, if I scratched it I'd get scolded!"

LOL! Izzy hardly ever gets scolded. She's the cat that can do no wrong. But that's just my wife talking. She does plenty wrong! But she's cute.

 

[4stringsjack]

LOL! Izzy hardly ever gets scolded. She's the cat that can do no wrong. But that's just my wife talking. She does plenty wrong! But she's cute.

I had to read this twice to consider who you're talking about.

 

[4stringsjack]

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Redid my bass to tone down the punk aesthetic and add more black. I think it's better this time.

I think it looks great!

 

[4stringsjack]

... Although I do have a black/tort bias.

 

[BigDrew]

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Nice!! What is the black one? Custom Shop?

 

[4stringsjack]

Nice!! What is the black one? Custom Shop?

Nope. '72 Jazz neck on a '71 P body.

 

[4stringsjack]

Here's the whole thing.

 

[4stringsjack]

The Caprice now lives with a fellow TBer.

 

[DirkP]

Just don’t take her to the beach.

But it was the opposite of a beach. Just a leftover bowling alley in the north of Germany...

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

I rather like this Fano at CME.

 

[JIO]

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That is a nice one. I like most of the Fano stuff I see.

 

[JimmyM]

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I don't think that's so much distressed as "slightly concerned"

 

[Kitsapbass]

I don't think that's so much distressed as "slightly concerned"

Or maybe “Considering Counseling”.