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SHOW YOUR DISTRESSED FINISHES!
- Thread starter JIO
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- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Yep -
BMM is a fave of mine, especially with an aged patina. (less pink, a bit warmer brownish-amber tint) There are many versions out there on Fender and Epiphone guitars/basses that vary widely.
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"...there's only three things for sure.., Texas Chain-Saw Massacres, death and trouble"
He's the new guy at work, he ain't good for much but he sure knows how to use that chainsaw."...there's only three things for sure.., Texas Chain-Saw Massacres, death and trouble"
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
He's the new guy at work, he ain't good for much but he sure knows how to use that chainsaw.
The quiet type is he...
- Apr 1, 2000
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- Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars, DR Strings, Aguilar Amplification
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,612
- 222,129
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
- Apr 1, 2000
- 17,408
- 9,865
- Disclosures
- Endorsing Artist: Roscoe Guitars, DR Strings, Aguilar Amplification
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,612
- 222,129
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,612
- 222,129
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
"It's my thread and I'll do what I want to, cry if I want to, die if I want to..." ...anyway, as it is my thread I want to post pics of a related bass commission I just completed. You can visit its build thread here: Redefining a custom bass
...anyway, as it is my thread I want to post pics of a related bass commission I just completed. You can visit its build thread here: Redefining a custom bass
This finish looks pretty distressed.
(Probably been posted already, wasn't going to look through 83 pages to find out, sorry!)
(Probably been posted already, wasn't going to look through 83 pages to find out, sorry!)
- Jun 30, 2010
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No, as much as I've seen a guitar version before - first time I've seen this 'distressing' bass version.
It's been awhile so to get back OT. Case in point, 1957 Precision. this, folks, is real, hard, honest wear. The first 20 years it played every one of the thousands of gigs I played. The second 20 years it was gigged, but not as regularly. Every mark on it is mine but a small one on the back and that was the ONLY blem when I bought it in 67'. ($125used) Sorry I don't have hidef pics. All original including the case. Covers long gone sadly. One I lost, one sent to rechrome and lost by them. There are a few extra holes. This bass has played WITH the Platters, the Coasters, Tommy Castro, Tuck and Patti, Les McCann, Stanley Jordan, Doug Ellington and many others. It has opened for Trower, Butterfield, Johnny and Edgar Winter, Paul Rodgers, Jimmy Witherspoon etc. its been around. Under the thumb rest there is a hole gouged by my thumbnail I moved the thumbrest to cover the hole and protect it from damage to the pickup. Look how worn down the Thumbrest is. Actually I think I took pretty good care of it compared to many more beat up instruments. Yea and that E string silk, not my doing, the pics are a couple of yrs old from the guy I very reluctantly sold it to 10 yrs ago.
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Here's the Before.
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I remember that bass but I am not aware of the 'after' pics and not sure how to find them if they exist. I do recall seeing the photo-wrap version of a similar finish that the ZZ-Top guys did on their axes.
