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Show Your Natural Finish Basses

My LTD D-5 at the top of this family portrait is a natural beauty. (Merbau body, maple/mahogany neck).

May not have an exciting grain pattern or anything, but looks like a yummy dessert to me. Plus that bass a tone monster and just feels so right in my hands.

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All are sub-short scale.

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The only one I still have is the acoustic walnut, but I will be adding a Hadean violin 21" scale bass uke that I'm going to have Pat Wilkins strip the top and give it a natural stain, something like this if possible.

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