I found another one on the web, the exact same model from the same factory and the same years (under another brand name) . the difference with mine being that it’s in really good shape, so it shows how mine could look after some work and with the original finish :
except that I don’t think I will mount a chrome cover for the neck pickup (the fakebucker is too cute to be hidden), and I think I will make a replacement control plate in black plastic because this single white part looks very strange.
Gorgeous.
I also think you should leave your pickup out for the world to see.
I agree it looks strange - I love the look on the J bass style basses where the plate here matches the bridge hardware - chrome? Black would also be rad.
I’m stoked to see how yours turns out.
I hate them too, I would never buy a new bass with a sunburst, and I don’t like bursts in general, even tho there are some cool burst out there, I prefer them not having them on my basses, but if I did I would prefer it to be hideously ugly like this one.
I think the hideousness of this really says something about the bass and about the time it was made. This one has a face only a mother could love, and as its mother, I suggest you love like the ugly fat kid it is.
But I wouldn’t blame you one bit if you got it some zit cream and braces and dye its hair blonde, put some fake tits on it and call it a trophy wife.
I mean it already has fake humbuckers, may as well give it fake tits too.
or fill up the sagging shell of what used to be tits, with a bunch of silicone (real humbuckers) for a real breast lift and face lift (paint it), and call it sugar mama
actually I expect the fakebuckers to be a little bit dark, very “vintage” and with a low output level.
I was thinking about a “aztec gold”-ish paint. but this morning in the car, on my road to work, I was thinking about a metallic pink-fuchia-purple.
or I could try to live with the ulgyburst, as @T_dub says. it’s a part of what this bass is, and it could look cool next to a cheap destroyed guitar to play some dark country with a buddy. The grunge side of dark country, somewhat.
I have breathed in millions of those in my day (life in machine shops, even metal flakes in all the offices and programming rooms) and I am still kicking. LOL, barely some days, but still breathing.
Yeah, though with these particular paints, they hone in on the truly bad ones. Like, good metallic gold lacquer actually has fine gold particles in it, same for silver and platinum etc. And older silver ones had lead.
So, lacquer fumes to gum you up, plus heavy metal poisoning
at least they’re weird and cute
