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TRIED to restore an old P bass XD..

Actually, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out :bassist:
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It used to look something like this...
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I dunno about you guys, but IMO, the red sparkle finish kinda felt too 'modern' to have all those vintage looking rusty parts, so I gave it a bit of a make-over...still sounds vintage-good though!

I replaced most of the screws, put in a Fender bridge, Duncan Vintage pickups, Gotoh machine heads (just to make it look a bit sleeker...it looks pretty different though, I'll still have to adjust to that XD).
And I replaced both the pots and the jack, which was actually necessary seeing that the volume pot decided to break down quite significantly, as it became jammed every time you turn it a little bit and refused to conduct electricity...

I have no idea where the original bass came from, so I'm just calling it Denver 'Custom'