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My Pbass, that I completely madeover...

Damn, that looks great!

What all did you do to it?

Nice! Out of a mid-ninety P-bass like mine. How did you get this color? it's not an original color. By the way I have some Fender '62 pickups on mine and I love them.

KICK.

ASS.

Pino would be proud!

I don't get it... what did it look like before compared to now?

That's fly.

It seems pretty beat-up for a bass with straplocks.

It was originally a 97 MIA P Bass in Candy Apple Red. Paid 600 for it, a few couple hundred for parts and labor and I'm well short of what a new MIA bass costs...

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Now THAT looks nice!!

ya I agree the before pic to me is pure nice, the after pic is just plain destroyed and horrible junk.
you took a beautiful perfect unit and turned it into junk?...ok, afterall, it is yours to choose what you want to do with it.


please don't ban me

Yeah, I'm gonna chime in on this too, and I maybe it's cause I'm just a sucker for CAR but I like the original better. Just needed a black pickguard and maple fretboard.




Really though, personal tastes are just that. Personal.

It's a great shade of fiesta red, and some really nice relic work for sure. I dig it.

Piece of junk huh?

Well it's a good thing it's not your bass.

If you don't have anything nice to say...

ok I'll rephrase my post a little, you took that beautiful item and turned it COSMETICALLY into a item that is something that I would never buy due to the fact that I am one of those people who says you wanna beat up looking bass?, start out with one in the first place, not from a mint condition unit.

And most certainly, if you like that look and for whatever reason others who you interact with like it too, cool, but these opinions received here in the thread are what you want right? good or bad?.
And when I said Junk, I obviously meant garbage looking, because from the "before and after" pics I'm sure it did not change the playability or tone of the thing and it sounds every bit as good as day-1.

Take a brand new poly finish Fender and tell me how long it would take it even remotely looked reliced. I'm sorry but I enjoy a little flare with my guitars, rather than sticking to the same specs has been putting out for the past 10 years (sunburst, black, no matching headstock relic, white pickguard) The nitro certainly does affect the sound as the poly is gone and the nitro allows the bass to "breathe". The neck is a lot smoother than the thick laquer applied to newer basses as well...

Well, I own the exact same bass and I really like what you did! It turned out nice and not cheesy looking like when peeps try to relic a poly finished bass . I usually really like a CAR finish but looking at mine I am not sure it is really CAR. It seems to be a little brighter and not as nice IMO. I was also torn with the idea of refinishing it but it is not always a good idea for re-sell purposes therefore, on my bass the only thing I did, besides changing the pickups, was to get a really awesome vintage mint green pickguard. A few questions for you
- Where did you find this vintage looking bridge which is also thru-body?
- How did you remove the finish and mostly how did you apply the nitro (It seems like an aweful lot of work)
- Can you really hear the difference between the nitro and the poly finish?
- Did you completely sand down the neck? If it is exposed, aren't you afraid the wood will warp?
- Did you keep the original pickups?

I always figured that when someone posts pics of a bass, they want folks to look at the pics, and maybe even comment on the bass in the photos.

Actually I'd say my comment WAS nice, in fact if you look closely, it has the word "nice" in it!