Sorry i thought you were trading the green Ray4HH for the wooden G&L but was dissapointed because your friend gifted it to you so you didn’t want to let it go.
Sorry I read it all wrong, been getting very little sleep in the studio lately. I love how that G&L looks but then again I love all natural wood looking basses. They just look so perfect in my eyes. Especially the one you linked.
@Fahri , rubbing alcohol is your friend. It’ll remove most glue residues and leave buildings standing. Acetone ought to work as well, it doesn’t touch most acrylics. Take a little on a q-tip and test in a corner of the pick guard.
Of course, If it eats the pickguard away, you can always have an excuse to get a new one.
Thanks mate, I found the right product for it specifically used for removing adhesive residue and it came off quite nicely.
However this gritty thing is definitely not my style. I like the clean looks better if it is not really a relic from 70s.
I’ll soon paint it over and share my work on DIY thread here 
It turns out Squier compatible pickguard is really hard to find…
Hmm. Plastic or wood stock, modeling drill, dremel tool, modeling saw… some sandpaper…
That would be the single life or a man with his own man cave. Not my case though I’m still doing all my “DIY” in the living room on the table where we eat as a family 
Just spotted this on Reverb. Surely it is the ‘collector’ market that pushes these prices so high? I get that old guitars sound better but how much better can they get for twelve times the price of the current top-of-the-range model?
I highly doubt about that.
For that kind of money, I’d expect it to be hand delivered on a velvet pillow 
Cheers
Joe
I’ve never been lucky enough to play a sixty year old guitar but I’ve watched plenty of Youtube Videos A/Bing old and new guitars. There is a difference but I’d say it’s miniscule. It’s not a 20+ grand difference
It’s not a $20 difference (for me)
The newest edition to the family. An Epiphone Embassy in Sparkling Burgundy. It sounds a lot like the Thunderbird I used to have but is much, much more comfortable to play.
i’ve never been unlucky enough to play one. old basses usually weigh a zillion pounds.
It’s not about sound. There are probably less than a dozen 100% original 1953 Telecaster basses on the entire planet. Some people collect coins or baseball cards, a few collect basses. It could sound like crap and would still be worth a ridiculous amount of $.
I doubt that the eventual buyer will ever take it to a gig.
that’s it, those things are parts of history and collection items. the price has nothing to do with the musical quality of the instrument. those are museum pieces.
I don’t think there are so few of those vintage Fender, at the time it was an industrial business and Fender produced a ton of those instruments. sure a lot have been destroyed but I’m pretty sure there are a lot of old Fender left. the high price is kinda artificial in my opinion.
but it’s still a reality : a friend of mine had a 65 Fender Stratocaster. he sold it and had enough money to buy a Lotus Elan (english sportscar).
The model reminds me of a Fender Telecaster.
I love the classic P Basses! Mine’s not a Fender, but it is MADE OF STEEL (hollow, so it’s not a spinesquisher) by a very cool Frenchman called Loic le Pape.
Let us hear some clips of that thing, I’m very interested in sound difference between steel and wood.
Very nice @Turner, 
Cheers Brian
New strings got here today and they are on the bass. Now if I could go home and play
Have to learn another brick in the wall all over without drop d as it’s a 5 string, but that B will sound good.
Excellent choice
