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SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!
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OK, get your favorite beverage or whatever because I'm carpet bombing here. I have some free time.Yes a few are a bit too clean but deserve a space so sift through and enjoy.View attachment 5106189 View attachment 5106190
Quite the bomb. That white/tort P sure looks like a 'relic'd' refin to me. Some off details as well.
Love the Ric and the Kay.
The top J is Charcoal Frost and the Tele is Ice Blue Metallic. It has really ambered out.
Nice T-bird. Didn't know it was originally a single pickup.
Counter intuitive but Charcoal Frost often goes green like that with the yellowing of the amber. Though not really visible, I'm guessing there's some blue content in Charcoal Frost (blue + yellow = green...). This was why Fender went to gold undercoat only for Candy Apple Red after they went the Firemist Gold and Silver - there's some blue in Firemist Silver that wasn't there in Inca Silver and with the red transparent it threw the color off towards purple.
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The large string-thru ferrules sets the '50s P's apart. Most (other than early '90s Fender/Japan) since then have had small ferrules until the recent Fender '54 P RI with pressed-fiber/phenolic barrel saddles. (as originals - '51-'54) Pretty much an authentic RI covering that detail.
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I sculpted a J body from a darkly 'roasted' alder blank and wanted to do a 'Mary Kay' finish on it. Pat Wilkins let me know that because it was so dark (because of the torification process) - it wouldn't work. The "Mary Kay" finish needs a neutral/bland base being translucent. It would have ended up looking milky-grey over the dark wood.
Yes, the Charcoal Frost J does look greenish. It’s amazing what some of the original finishes end up looking like over time. One of my favorites has become Candy Apple Red. There’s a CAR P bass in Italy on Reverb that has areas that look copper. It’s quite beautiful how it’s clear coat has oxidized.
That’s interesting about the CAR base coat changing to Firemist Gold. Would love to see a CAR finish going violet due to the silver base.
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Fender did a nice job on the new AV II series. Would love to get the Daphne blue P and Sea Foam green J.
Yeah, CAR can go to that copper or orange look when really sun faded - the red in the clear fading. I agree it can look really great.
On the CAR metallic* base coats the conventional wisdom is that Fender 'always' used silver up until switching to gold in late '64 or '65 and that's not true. Fully original (Shoreline) gold base coats can be found as early as '63 when CAR was introduced - though silver was more common. Once Fender switched from Shoreline Gold and Inca Silver to Firemist Gold and Firemist Silver, they went to gold metallic base as standard.
* these were still over regular base coats, usually white.
My OCD makes me want them to call it Foam Green as "Sea Foam" is a more modern name and has covered a range of shades - while Foam Green is a specific car color and what was used in that era. Regardless, I like the '66 Jazz in that color and if I didn't already have 2 Js in that configuration, I'd surely be looking at getting one...
Sounds like there’s several variables going on with a CAR finish. What is the combination that caused the CAR finish to look purplish? Was that the Firemist Silver? Sorry, but I’m a total geek over this stuff.
It’s funny that you mentioned this, as I was thinking the same thing as I was writing it. Love the appointments on the 66 J. Ticks all the boxes for me except I would swap the tort guard out for mint or parchment.
I'd do exactly the same on the guard. Would look much closer to original - and I just like the look better.
A real one - granted, a '65:
The purplish hue thing was the trans red over Firemist Silver. Looked like that from the start - not an issue of aging.
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A little natural distress, I let the kids at the school use this bass the past school year. At first I was a bit bummed that it happened but that was silly. Im keeping it this way…. Those kids loved it and rocked it!!!
(I will admit that that picking position drives me a little
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(I will admit that that picking position drives me a little
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I WISH! So far as I know there are only four Jazz Basses confirmed in original Foam Green. This one is from Albert Molinaro who used to own Guitars R Us in Hollywood and wrote The Fender Bass book with J.W. Black.
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