May or may not have done a similar thing at home once and smashed the lampshade… 
Not really bothered about the bass though, was just the cheapo home made thing 
only chipped the end of headstock a little bit
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Go get a bottle of clear fingernail polish. It comes with its own little brush. Just touch it up with that and you’ll almost never know the difference. I’ve done that many a time over the decades and it works just fine. You can even fill in deep chips with it. Smells pretty cool too!
If it’s more than just a clear coat then get some modeling paint and try and match it as best you can, then finish off with the clear nail polish. Keeps your axe lookin nice and new for a long time, unless you like that beat to shit look some out there like. Personally I like making my equipment look like I take good care of it.
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Hasn’t happened to me yet… I have a feeling it’s coming though…
Seems to me the marketplace already has a solution for this by selling pre-dinged instruments they call “Relics”. What I can’t get over is why they want to charge me more to damage my guitar or bass when I can just as easily do it myself without having to pay anyone to do it for me. I’m a no charge dinger.
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Finally I understand the meaning of the lyrics of “Jesus built my Hotrod”:
“So there was only one thing that I could do
Was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long
Ding dang a dong bong bing bong”
It’s about relics!?!?!
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This is exactly my thinking
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I just accept that the bass will inevitably get dinged. I’m not careless with it, but I also don’t waste any mental/emotional energy on worrying about it. It helps if I think of it as already being dinged. Stretch the time scale out long enough and it will be far worse off.
It’s even better if it actually is already dinged, and I saved a boatload of money buying it as a brand new b-stock, or a used bass if I’m certain there’s nothing wrong with it other than aesthetics. My Corvette for example was a display model at an online vendor’s physical store. It has a bit of buckle rash. I bought it for $1200 off the cost of new. Saved money and don’t have to worry about any potential future scratches ruining the supposed perfection of it.
Don’t get me wrong, I love a nice gorgeous bass - but a dinged bass sounds just as good, and isn’t that the ultimate purpose of a musical instrument?
Click Here for a Philosophical Quote Regarding Impermanence
One day some people came to the master and asked ‘How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence? The master held up a glass and said ’Someone gave me this glass, and I really like this glass. It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. And I say, ‘Of course.’ When I understand that the glass is already broken, every moment with it is precious.
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I tend to take a similar path whenever it’s available. I have a long history of buying “pre-dinged” gear for less and saving a ton of money.
Around 12 years ago I bought a Squier CVC Tele for $200 with a punked neck pickup and a scratch on the back. Over time I upgraded it with better pickups, compensated brass saddles, new electronics, and swapped with a buddy for his maple Fender neck. I probably had $300 total into and sold it for $700.
Around 18 months ago or so I bought a G&L Comanche with a finish flaw so small you’d need to know it exists to even find it that lists at $700 for $425. And there are almost always open box and “B” stock deals out there to be had for 20% off and more on top shelf gear. Just fight off GAS and be patient.
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Yep. For a while I actually felt like I had failed if I bought new. These days I am more open to it but I still prefer used.
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Found a mystery chip on my Bass VI last night, no idea when or how it happened (son says he has no idea) I coloured it with a black sharpie and I’ll prolly put some nail polish on it too.
Is that Greenie?
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yeah obviously 
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Similarly for my Fretless of Doom I used a badly damaged body I picked up-looked like it had been dropped and run over.
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It only makes it looks better 
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Ok, this happens when you travel a lot, use the bass outside … and generally throw around da bassss!
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You’re lucky that’s not a Gibson, it would have beheaded it
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Incidentally, I was thinking about headless conversions yesterday. Maybe that ding was a subconscious result of those thoughts??!
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Got on just like that by sticking my Yamaha into a running ceiling fan!
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