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The Reverend Club (part 3)

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Oh! Henry said:
Chez Paré

Some museums actual let you touch the "ART" :p
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Completely unrelated, but for whatever reason (Maybe being MADD and all...) this reminds me of something that happened when I worked for VWOA (Volkswagen of America). We had a French speaking technician on the Help Desk, to support the Quebec (Pronounced Kay-bec) dealerships. Well, she went on vacation, so they hired a Temp. The Temp was from Paré , or Paris as us Yanks call it. She lasted 2 days. Every time someone called, she tried to CORRECT their use of the French language. I guess some Muckety-Much called her, and she completely Insulted him...

Drop; Kick; SCORE!!! She was gone that quick!
 
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A post a bass in it;)
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#830
Wow. Turn my back for a few hours to reel in a Red Snapper and a full-fledged no-holds-barred feeding frenzy breaks out. :p

The polite thing to do in this situation would be to try to calm the waters, but I don't roll like that. :D

The Red Snapper has arrived:

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Unfortunately, it picked up a nasty ding in the fretboard during shipment, but it's not that big of a deal -- it's up by the 18th fret (I very rarely play up there). It's mostly a cosmetic issue that's not obvious until you get close up and it helps complete the transformation . . .

As some of you may know, I am a lifelong Georgia Bulldog fan. I grew up in Athens, GA, and my dad still teaches at the UGA. I've been going to see "the Dawgs" play for over thirty years, and it's been hard living way out here on the West Coast with its chronic shortage of SEC football. So when the Red XL came up for sale, I put into action plans I've had in the back of my mind for a long time.

Introducing . . . . The DAWGFISH. :D

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Now don't fret (nice pun, huh?) fellow fishermen -- those are not stickers but "clings" -- they don't leave any marks. :) I had to reposition one of them, and it came off easily and without leaving any residue. I would NEVER make a non-reversible modification to a Reverend or put a sticker on ANY bass. I'm more worried about them staying on than coming off. I had the b/w/b pickguard laying around because I ordered one for my PJ long ago (it transforms to JJ, but I've never put it in that configuration).

As for the ding on the fretboard, that's just a little battle damage. Any true junkyard Dawg is going to have a few scars, so I'm cool with it. :D Doesn't affect how it plays in the slightest.

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And finally, a shot of my four fish, which more or less completes the collection (I don't have a true JJ, but I actually prefer the XL controls):

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And yes, I'm a hoarder, a ******* and probably pretty much anything else you'd like to call me. :hiding:
 
#833
Chef said:
Bartman; did you know you BH5 was in the Rev Gallery?
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My Blackwood 5L is too...
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I saw that. I was so excited when I first realized that mine was in the gallery that I made my wife come look. I guess every swirl pattern is unique like a fingerprint, so it's clearly mine . . . :D

MaddAnthony_59 said:
Holy Crap, that's a Fine Looking School O'Fish Bart!!!

I think I'll do a Family Portrait of my School this weekend as well. I'll be Humbled by yours, but It's a Fish Thang!
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Thanks!!!


Just use a tripod, and no flash. We want good bass porn here! :p
 
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Dayum, that is a fine school indeed! There are a whole buncha cool fish these last few pages- I dig 'em all (as I suspect all of you do too), but that dragonfly green just knocks me out. Speaking of dings in the fretboard (fishboard), I had a pretty noticeable one on my Blackfish at the fifth fret on the G string. (Knocked it off a stand). I sent it to Joe & Co. and they got it out (95%) and now you cannot feel it and just barely see it. :)
 
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4Mal said:
Bart - you Dawg!

Hey - we need to do something of a send off for Mr & Mrrs I gotta get back to RedSoxCelticsPatriots'Ville before they blow the scene, ya think ?
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Yes indeed we do.

I'm not quite sure what it is we should do, but we should do something.

petch said:
Dayum, that is a fine school indeed! There are a whole buncha cool fish these last few pages- I dig 'em all (as I suspect all of you do too), but that dragonfly green just knocks me out. Speaking of dings in the fretboard (fishboard), I had a pretty noticeable one on my Blackfish at the fifth fret on the G string. (Knocked it off a stand). I sent it to Joe & Co. and they got it out (95%) and now you cannot feel it and just barely see it. :)
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This one goes pretty deep. Whatever Fedex dropped on the package was HEAVY. The impact was so great that it also marked up two of the frets, though the damage there was mostly cosmetic.

FWIW, the lesson I've learned is that in the future, I'll always put some newspaper or something between the strings and the fretboard. It was the string which caused the gouge in the fretboard. Oddly, there weren't any holes or gashes in the box, and Tony had packed the bass really well. Whatever landed on the bass probably had a hard corner that hit the box in just the wrong way and hammered the string into the fretboard. If the bass had been in a hardcase, it might not have gotten the damage, but judging from the size/depth of the ding, the impact might well have wrecked a hard case in the process.

No big deal. A good Dawgfish wears its scars with pride.
 
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