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#3,221
SJLee said:
I've been pouring over Norm's Rare Guitar videos trying to find the Fender bass with the pad, but with no luck. It's a Mark Agnesi era video. I have also seen them on Gretsch guitars which have snaps.

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Would love to know if those snaps are somehow fastened to the body directly or if there is some other material that the other end of the snap attaches to between the pad and the back of the guitar. They seem pointless if you are marking up the finish and or body of the instrument to attach a pad - unless there's something I'm not getting?
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I have the same on my 6072 reissue.The snaps are attached to the back of the bass. On the original the pad covers a rectangular holes allowing access the electronics. On the reissue the pad is just a cover, there's no access hole to the electronics.
 
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SJLee said:
I've been pouring over Norm's Rare Guitar videos trying to find the Fender bass with the pad, but with no luck. It's a Mark Agnesi era video. I have also seen them on Gretsch guitars which have snaps.

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Would love to know if those snaps are somehow fastened to the body directly or if there is some other material that the other end of the snap attaches to between the pad and the back of the guitar. They seem pointless if you are marking up the finish and or body of the instrument to attach a pad - unless there's something I'm not getting?
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Dynacord said:
I remember a 60's Vox hollowbody bass with similar snap on pad as well.
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A few VOX guitars/basses had the pads, Teardrops and Phantoms among them. I could be wrong but the body side of the snaps were screwed into the body. For hollowbodies having that big "damper" attached to them was probably not great for resonance. The whole concept of "needing" them is so unnecessary.

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JIO said:
A few VOX guitars/basses had the pads, Teardrops and Phantoms among them. I could be wrong but the body side of the snaps were screwed into the body. For hollowbodies having that big "damper" attached to them was probably not great for resonance. The whole concept of "needing" them is so unnecessary.
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On the whole concept of "needing" those pads, I'm reminded of the Fender body guards (clear or colored) and the irony that they often caused finish damage around the edges (as some used a weather stripping type material which reacted with the finish - and how some of the Fender basses would have finish discoloration under the bridge cover from the mute strip off-gassing - most visible on white and blonde finishes).
 
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Dynacord said:
On the whole concept of "needing" those pads, I'm reminded of the Fender body guards (clear or colored) and the irony that they often caused finish damage around the edges (as some used a weather stripping type material which reacted with the finish - and how some of the Fender basses would have finish discoloration under the bridge cover from the mute strip off-gassing - most visible on white and blonde finishes).
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Yah, mentioned the Parker body guards a few posts back - extravagantly silly! :)
 
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Dynacord said:
On the whole concept of "needing" those pads, I'm reminded of the Fender body guards (clear or colored) and the irony that they often caused finish damage around the edges (as some used a weather stripping type material which reacted with the finish - and how some of the Fender basses would have finish discoloration under the bridge cover from the mute strip off-gassing - most visible on white and blonde finishes).
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I remember seeing one of these shell type plastic back covers you mention on a Fender bass again from one of the Norm's Rare Guitars videos. There one now being sold on Reverb for a Fender Jazz bass.

Fender Jazz Bass factory optional Body-Guard 1963 White | The Guitar Broker | Reverb
 
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SJLee said:
I remember seeing one of these shell type plastic back covers you mention on a Fender bass again from one of the Norm's Rare Guitars videos. There one now being sold on Reverb for a Fender Jazz bass.

Fender Jazz Bass factory optional Body-Guard 1963 White | The Guitar Broker | Reverb
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:laugh: That cracks me up! ($295!) Well.., this is a great example of how something sort of unnecessary and silly ends up being a "valuable antique" / "object de art". But seriously - it actually is art. Art serves no functional purpose and yet is lovely to appreciate! Just like this Fender bass cicada shell. I would definitely hang it on the wall. Hell yes I would.

Ok... follow me on this - what would really be art would be to clone this shell out of wood, and faux paint it to look exactly like this rubber (whatever) example - with hand stamped/printed Fender ...etc. That would be art. :) (not joking) Or better yet - carve it out of marble because inherently it would have that mottled look. Yeah, that's the ticket!

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God's Favorite Bass said:
But if we were to approach this strictly from and art standpoint...I see it in my head from a pop standpoint that could be used to repetitively stamp, multicolored, a' la Warhol handed a potato stamp, or Lichtenstein with Leo's face in Ben Day dots. Or I guess you could flip it over and scrawl M. Duchamp with a sharpie...
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Love yah' GFB - you speak my language! :D I actually really like the cutting board use of art!
 
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JIO said:
:laugh: That cracks me up! ($295!) Well.., this is a great example of how something sort of unnecessary and silly ends up being a "valuable antique" / "object de art". But seriously - it actually is art. Art serves no functional purpose and yet is lovely to appreciate! Just like this Fender bass cicada shell. I would definitely hang it on the wall. Hell yes I would or a cactus garden.

Ok... follow me on this - what would really be art would be to clone this shell out of wood, and faux paint it to look exactly like this rubber (whatever) example - with hand stamped/printed Fender ...etc. That would be art. :) (not joking) Or better yet - carve it out of marble because inherently it would have that mottled look. Yeah, that's the ticket!

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We’re made of marble I would fill it with soil and make a succulent garden.
 
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God's Favorite Bass said:
It would make any average kitchen majestic.
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In this day of CNC, I think it could be done out of marble - there would be a substantial outlay of $ to fab it, but there's potential there. A cool kitchen cutting board, a (party table) potato chip "bowl", a groovy planter box...
 
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