SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!

[DJ Bebop]

It can be yours!

Fender Precision 69 Black over sunburst ultra heavy relic | Reverb

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

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It can be yours!

Fender Precision 69 Black over sunburst ultra heavy relic | Reverb

Nope for me.

 

[cymbop]

It will need to be the lightest of covering coat(s) of the Sonic blue. Poly finishes can 'wear' from interface/use, but it's generally tougher than nitro.

...figured this thread is the place to chronicle my self-relic adventure.

Lakland had never done a finish like this, but they went with my dream: a light covering of Sonic Blue, over Candy Apple Red, no clear coat.

It's happening much faster than I had imagined. But I bought the ticket, and I am enjoying the ride! After a week of playing the heck out of her at home, the paint looks like what I thought it would in a year. My guess is that if I'd done Sonic Blue over the wood, it would be happening much slower. But the poly blue paint has very little purchase on top of of the CAR. Anything as hard as a fingernail or a plastic shirt button will scratch it straight down to the red. The back of the neck pocket, where I'll hold the bass while I'm walking around with her, is going quickly. And it's beautiful: the blue is very-matte, and when the red shows through it sparkles and gleams like a ruby!

In a couple of years, there might be a lot more red than blue.

NBD:

Day three:

Day six:

 

[getBAK]

Not mine - but belongs to a friend
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[JIO]

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It can be yours!

Fender Precision 69 Black over sunburst ultra heavy relic | Reverb

 

[JIO]

...figured this thread is the place to chronicle my self-relic adventure.

Lakland had never done a finish like this, but they went with my dream: a light covering of Sonic Blue, over Candy Apple Red, no clear coat.

It's happening much faster than I had imagined. But I bought the ticket, and I am enjoying the ride! After a week of playing the heck out of her at home, the paint looks like what I thought it would in a year. My guess is that if I'd done Sonic Blue over the wood, it would be happening much slower. But the poly blue paint has very little purchase on top of of the CAR. Anything as hard as a fingernail or a plastic shirt button will scratch it straight down to the red. The back of the neck pocket, where I'll hold the bass while I'm walking around with her, is going quickly. And it's beautiful: the blue is very-matte, and when the red shows through it sparkles and gleams like a ruby!

In a couple of years, there might be a lot more red than blue.

NBD:
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Day three:
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Day six:
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That's very cool I do the same thing - I do the finish colour and then spray a couple light coats of satin clear lacquer top-coat and just play it. Then it's "real" player wear, worn where I interface with it or ding/scratch it accidentally. One tact to take is once it looks nicely player worn, you can do a clear-coat on top to 'seal' it.

 

[Bob_Ross]

The front still looks pretty good for a ~35-40 year old bass, but that back...

 

[Bleecker]

Here's one for y'all! This is a simple Squier Jazz bass that's been naturally distressed by being involved in a house fire! The fire was a few years back in my home town of Essex NY. The main part of the building burned to the ground, not sure where this bass was located but close enough to feel some serious heat. Look how it baked the paint and the bubbled up the clear finish on the neck and HS. Naturally roasted neck.... Somehow the electrics were unaffected. My brother bought the bass at the annual town wide yard sale for 20 bucks! It plays and sounds great! Punches way above its weight!
Cheers!

 

[JIO]

The front still looks pretty good for a ~35-40 year old bass, but that back...

this is player wear?

 

[Bob_Ross]

this is player wear?

Not sure, the bass was ~10 years old when I aquired it and already looked like that.
It almost looks like the previous owner tried to strip the finish with a sanding disc and then gave up after seeing what was underneath, because the wood surface on the back has no gouges or divots or scratches like a belt buckly might cause, just that semi-clockwise swirl pattern.

 

[JIO]

Here's one for y'all! This is a simple Squier Jazz bass that's been naturally distressed by being involved in a house fire! The fire was a few years back in my home town of Essex NY. The main part of the building burned to the ground, not sure where this bass was located but close enough to feel some serious heat. Look how it baked the paint and the bubbled up the clear finish on the neck and HS. Naturally roasted neck.... Somehow the electrics were unaffected. My brother bought the bass at the annual town wide yard sale for 20 bucks! It plays and sounds great! Punches way above its weight!
Cheers!
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Wow - that's cool (but not cool that it was caused by a fire - hope everyone related is ok) but it is a unique finish 'treatment'. I restored a carved double bass that was in a fire - the finish was severely blistered and the table needed re-gluing but luckily the wood was mostly unharmed. (if not 'roasted'...) It was almost like it was sprayed with a tobacco 'burst'.

Same brass/ebony tuning pegs cleaned-up like new.

 

[JIO]

check...

 

[Bleecker]

Wow - that's cool (but not cool that it was caused by a fire - hope everyone related is ok) but it is a unique finish 'treatment'. I restored a carved double bass that was in a fire - the finish was severely blistered and the table needed re-gluing but luckily the wood was mostly unharmed. (if not 'roasted'...) It was almost like it was sprayed with a tobacco 'burst'.

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Same brass/ebony tuning pegs cleaned-up like new.
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So in the 3rd and 4th pics, is that patina or some kind of groovy finish? Its looks cool! It cleaned up well judging from the 2nd picture...

 

[JIO]

So in the 3rd and 4th pics, is that patina or some kind of groovy finish? Its looks cool! It cleaned up well judging from the 2nd picture...

Once I stripped the blistered finish, I dyed the whole bass indigo blue and partially gilded it with copper-leaf which I then etched. I only gilded the hs/neck and shoulders so as not to compromise the acoustic/resonant quality of the sound-chamber/body. Once done, I coated it with clear varnish - much like any classical stringed instrument.

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

 

[JIO]

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Very nice - do you have more pics? Is it in a shop?

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

Very nice - do you have more pics? Is it in a shop?

It is on Reverb. I'll see if I can grab some more.

 

[Doctor Intrepid]

 

[God's Favorite Bass]

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That's really cool. Elegant. I like that a lot.

 

[JIO]

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Thanks! I'm trying to determine its vintage... here's another cool Hofner model with similar details but no date. I'll guess '80s as this one has a battery.