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'72 Tele currently on eBay (no affiliation) - I can't image it named anything but "Crusty"... (I can smell the nicotine from here!)

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#5,104
JIO said:
'72 Tele currently on eBay (no affiliation) - I can't image it named anything but "Crusty"... (I can smell the nicotine from here!)

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I’d have a hard time saying no to pretty much anything you post, but that’s over the line for me. So, no. :smug:
That bass has stinky breath.
 
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Lowendtech said:
I’d have a hard time saying no to pretty much anything you post, but that’s over the line for me. So, no. :smug:
That bass has stinky breath.
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I agree - especially the case ~ but... talk about a played bass! There's some gravel-voiced stories it could tell! :bassist:
 
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More Teisco Del Rey love - I saw a pic of this on a Goggle search, and when I further I investigated I saw that it was an old (sold) Reverb listing of a bass I now own with much nicer pics than I have taken of it! :woot: Of note - someone pro-installed a very nice lined-ebony fb as seen in these pics.

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After purchasing it locally from a craigslist posting, I modded it by adding a Guild RI Darkstar pu and Manton knob for a 4-way pu switch. (last click being a kill-switch) Also swapped the vintage creme Teisco V/T knobs for their black cousins. I also installed LaBella flats on it. I can be nudged into seling it if anyone is interested. (PM me) It's a pretty cool vintage short-scale fretless.
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JIO said:
More Teisco Del Rey love - I saw a pic of this on a Goggle search, and when I further I investigated I saw that it was an old (sold) Reverb listing of a bass I now own with much nicer pics than I have taken of it! :woot: Of note - someone pro-installed a very nice lined-ebony fb as seen in these pics.

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After purchasing it locally from a craigslist posting, I modded it by adding a Guild RI Darkstar pu and Manton knob for a 4-way pu switch. (last click being a kill-switch) Also swapped the vintage creme Teisco V/T knobs for their black cousins. I also installed LaBella flats on it. I can be nudged into seling it if anyone is interested. (PM me) It's a pretty cool vintage short-scale fretless.
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I mean this in a totally positive way,
That bass reminds me of Gumby.
 
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Those are all great. I know I'd go to hell for it but I wouldn't care and if that Tele bass was mine I would have to respray that body. I mean, if I owned it I could do that. That body has so much cigs, DNA, and whatever that is/did that to the back (urine?!?!?) I just wouldn't care and Dakota red would be it. Now, that neck...wouldn't change a thing. It's where the secret mojo lives.
 
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God's Favorite Bass said:
Those are all great. I know I'd go to hell for it but I wouldn't care and if that Tele bass was mine I would have to respray that body. I mean, if I owned it I could do that. That body has so much cigs, DNA, and whatever that is/did that to the back (urine?!?!?) I just wouldn't care and Dakota red would be it. Now, that neck...wouldn't change a thing. It's where the secret mojo lives.
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:)
 
#5,112
JIO said:
'72 Tele currently on eBay (no affiliation) - I can't image it named anything but "Crusty"... (I can smell the nicotine from here!)

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I know many of you would not agree, but if the price was fair and I could find it on the bay, I would by the worn out 72. She has lived a hard life and some people have played her hard, and I would gladly give her some shows on stage again.
Yes rough as it is. I kind of warm up to instruments that had it rough.
 
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Jason Stock said:
I know many of you would not agree, but if the price was fair and I could find it on the bay, I would by the worn out 72. She has lived a hard life and some people have played her hard, and I would gladly give her some shows on stage again.
Yes rough as it is. I kind of warm up to instruments that had it rough.
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I agree - although my '66 didn't smell like an ashtray when I became its guardian. ;)

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Jason Stock said:
Beautiful.
I could get rid of the smell
68, 71 and 72 all have special places on my heart and always looking for a lost one that needs help.
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This is the thing - if one is a "collector", you'll pay an exorbitant fee for a pristine example - but would it be a great player? Most likely not and these "collectors" aren't interested in playing them. My '66 is a player because it was played for decades by a professional. (from Portland) I learned only that and will conjecture he bought it new in late '66 and played it live and in the studio until he passed away about 10 yrs ago. (I've owned it for 8 years)

I loaned it to an out-of-town pro-player at a "Beatles Night" Christmas loft-party put on by Boz Scaggs here in the Bay Area (Oakland) a few years back so he wouldn't have to fly w/a bass, and after the first set I asked him what he thought of my bass. He asked; "how fast can you run?" :)
 
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Microbass said:
Man I dig this... But that has some funk. Looks like someone has tried to clean it off the back and failed miserably.. :woot:
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Heat was definitely involved - it was gigged in hot, smoky bars and outside on hot, sunny stages in a hot, sweaty part of the US.., a lot. That's the formula for that "look".
 
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