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21Sep/075

Homemade Bass Porn For Today

This time, the bass porn comes from a new addition to my collection. A friend of mine was selling a 70s P-Bass, and I had to give it a good home.The P-Bass before arriving at its new homeIt's not a stock instrument - sharp eyes might notice the active EMG pickup, and there are a few holes to file and a thumb rest to replace. I may even have the neck refretted and get the beast painted black, not sure yet. So it'll never be a collector's item, and that's the way it should be. Instruments are meant to be played, not tossed into a glass case and gazed at. If classical musicians can routinely play shows on instruments worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, you can take your vintage guitar out and pluck around a bit. Collectors, I'm speaking directly to you.

Anyway, I hope to have this one up and playing out soon. It sounded fantastic last night the first time I plugged it in, and that was with gunky strings. Clean it up and change the strings, and I'll have a beauty on my hands.

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  1. This is what you are going to play in our band.

  2. Yeah, you’ve got to play them! Is that the original finish then?

    I quite like that blue actually… however if I was refinning it, i’d do it off-white, and stick a nice shiny ashtray bridge cover on there. The guard would look good over black too though…

  3. I’ve decided against the refret for now – no need. I believe the blue is the original finish, and it’s grown on me a bit. I’d still like a black finish, but that my have to be for another bass. :)

  4. And a final warning! Collecting Vintage Electric Guitars is very definitely good for your soul :-)

  5. there would be more old cool guitars around for us normal guys to play and love if there weren’t so many old people with disposable income hoarding these.


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