The Ugly Duckling/Freak Thread

Hee, hee, hee :grin:

I knew somebody would bite.

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Actually validates a design idea I wanted to try. Researching some things now. It’s about to get ugly…er

Sans trem. But only because that’s out of budget.

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Doooo eeeettttt! :grin:

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I mean maybe if the pickguard were some sort of pearl design, the ā€œwhiteā€ wood was a bold color and the ā€œcheek guardā€ or whatever it is were black… For the record I’d love to play with a bass tremolo that would be silly fun.

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@JoshFossgreen will have to do a lesson on divebombing for bass now :stuck_out_tongue:

:rofl: :rofl:

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You just know Chris Wolstenholme could make a whammy work in a Muse tune… LOL! :rofl:

  1. Make complicated bassline
  2. Play it in intro
  3. Repeat for enough bars to induce a trip to urgent care
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I’d be kind of surprised if he didn’t use one somewhere in Exogenisis.

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Franken-basses should be radioactive… Not Ikea colored.

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I don’t know if anyone has already said this (since there are more than 1500 posts), but according to several sources:

Fender created the Antigua finish almost by accident, as a way to cover up burn marks on the edges of Coronado II guitars during production in the late 1960s, where the body binding process had gone wrong; instead of scrapping the guitars, they developed a dark burst finish to hide the damage, which eventually became the distinctive Antigua color scheme with a black to mustard yellow gradient.

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So Antigua was an accident after all. This makes so much sense.

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Antigua is Glorious!
Search your feelings, you know it is true

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Nothing but love, man, truly, but to me Antigua looks like week-old guacamole barf. :face_vomiting:

:crazy_face:

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The original was eclectic, but this…

…is bona fide fugly.

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All that needs is a black light to make it pop!! :stuck_out_tongue:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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It looks as if the player wearing this thing looked down, realized how horrific this green monstrosity was, and slit his wrist. :scream:

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I would have that placed center wall… I like it… :jbass: :sunglasses:

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I was just trying for a solid green but there were artifacts on the pic that made it weird so I decided to go for it color wise.

The original pic totally has, I killed myself on a bathroom floor vibes… I lold hard when I read that because that’s what I was thinking about the pic originally :rofl:

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But I would play my design over the original that looks like the bass version of a punch-out wood model kit.

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I like the bendy thing on the bridge, tort belongs on everything and when a new acoustic became a ā€œnecessityā€ā€¦ I bought the new Fender Palomino in Antigua burst. Maybe the oddities appeal to me more than others? I love this color!

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