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Oh dear. Appart from the pup, it's just all kinds of wrong. Ah pitty da foo who buys that POS.

[quote name='xgsjx' timestamp='1337176147' post='1656677'] I've got a 'Roadworn" carpet if anyone wants it? Tea & coffee stains, door treads & a couple of other period features. Let's start offers at £3k [/quote] Wow I bet Sting has one just like it.... of course the one he has out in his house is just a replica of the original - the original is kept hidden away somewhere safe in case it gets damaged.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1337175847' post='1656661'] ....In fact, does anyone think that the real roadworn products are really returns where spotty kids have put a dig in a guitar in the shop and it gets returned to the maker? Costly to repair/refinish they make it look intentional. [/quote] I've always thought this. No proof obviously but it would make perfect economical sense for them to do this. They actually get more for it second time around.

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1337174448' post='1656621'] Well, funny you should say that ..... [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V-gRXPuNVQ[/media] [/quote] Ah now I get it. That amp sounds like an old pair of trainers.

F*CK YOUR SINGER OK?

[quote name='grumble' timestamp='1337120653' post='1655970'] Wonder why it's only seems to be Fenders that get 'worn' in ? Is it because the originals weren't exactly finished to a high standard ? ....[/quote] There's a well beat up Fender for sale at a premium with a trade offer for a 'ray..... I wonder if he'd be happy trading for a 'ray in a similar condition.... if such a thing could be found.

[quote name='Prime_BASS' timestamp='1337150823' post='1656119'] My '95 sterling is definitly worn in, compared to newer models. The edge of the finger board and frets are very rounded and really comfortable, and the neck has gone soft as arseholes. [/quote] You've managed to wear the fret ends down on your Sterling? Have you got shark skin. My '80 G&L's fingerboard edge is showing minute signs of wear [b]between[/b] the frets, which is only fair considering it's 32 years of active service. I wonder if your Sterling frets weren't just like that in the first place - my 'ray frets are fairly well rounded over... from stock.

Haha yeah. Also I've never seen a P with a J bridge cover on it before.... now I know why.

[quote name='KASH' timestamp='1337095372' post='1655350'] what do you think of this? [url="http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/squire-p-bass-fender-black-wtortoiseshell-pick-guard-seymour-duncan-quarter-pounders-badass-bridge/101652852"]http://www.gumtree.c...ridge/101652852[/url] I was looking to stick a QP pickup anyway, but it looks like a beaten up affinity series [/quote] He sure likes to over-inflate the the value of those extras.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1337093176' post='1655291'] I wonder how much a 'reliced' Steinway would be. [attachment=108022:1011019-battered-piano-keyboard-sitting-outside.jpg] [/quote] Quite a lot.... if you can get Jeff Berlin to sign it.

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1337090542' post='1655225'] So maybe some will buy because the 'distressing' (how polite!) has been done well![/quote] Don't laugh. My first introduction to wood working was some 25 years ago where me and my dad would build and "distress" furniture to sell to the landed gentry. [quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1337090542' post='1655225'] Regarding the edges of the neck, has anyone worn through the lacquer and then started to actually round off the wood on any of their basses? I can't imagine how much playing would cause that. It would occur only in some places on the neck and by then the jack would be rattling loose, the controls on their 4th replacement and 5th refret. [/quote] My most knackered bass (the G&L L-1000) has a degree of scalloping to the r/w fingerboard edge between the frets. ... the jack was loose and the controls were fooked when I got it.

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1337087073' post='1655138'] I have never understood the attraction of relics or roadworn - [b]the artificially worn basses look just that:[i] artificially[/i] worn[/b]. I have a 30odd year old bass that's played loads of gigs and been bashed around a fair bit and it doesn't come close to looking as shagged out as some of the new roadworn/relics.... [/quote] True although Bravewood's [size=4][b]lightly distressed[/b] basses do look fairly authentic. I have a lot of respect for his eye for detail and ability to do random distressing... nothing worse than seeing the repeated pattern of the same set of keys being amateurishly hammered into a body.[/size]

[quote name='4 Strings' timestamp='1337079995' post='1654956'] ....Just for the uninitiated, how does a bass feel 'played-in'? ....[/quote] I think you'll have a hard time tying people down with this one. Most of it is intangible... like when you play a new bass for the first time and you somehow manage to come up with new and exciting riffs all of a sudden - Is it the bass doing it, or is it how the bass makes you feel? I can imagine that a beat up looking bass might make some people feel like they are playing one of the greats instruments (look at all the Jaco copies) and therefore be inspired that way. I own 2 very beat up basses one from the 70's the other 1980 neither of them impart to me anything by virtue of the fact that the finish is hanging off of them ... what I get from them both though is that they play and (most important for me) sound how I like.

[quote name='Johnston' timestamp='1337077968' post='1654895'] Ah but when it comes to the Fenders they are not the same. The "new" version is poly" the relic Nitro. Would also add on the one I tried the neck was quite nice. The worn in feel like pulling on an old comfy pair of trainers. Certainly a different feel to a new bass. I'm not keen on the look but I would take the relic'd version over the new one. Simply ion the feel of it. [/quote] Fair point (although I'm not sure I'd like to pull on someone else's old comfy trainers) I have tough man-skin on my hands which is unable to tell the difference between the types of finish used.

I doubt it. I think there need to be a few more influential and looked up to people to point out about the road-worn series "hang on these basses are just the same as the other ones but with some paint knocked off them ... it's ... it's just a con really" before the masses will take heed and stop fawning over the intangible reasons why they are better than their identical but mint brothers and sisters. And seeing as the core elite are all Fender through and through I doubt they will come out and say it. ... Of course the best thing about them is you can play them for a while, add your own dinks and scrapes then sell them on "as new"

[quote name='TheRev' timestamp='1337072254' post='1654782'] Danny has done stuff with just about everybody.... [url="http://www.therealdannythompson.co.uk/Discography.html"]http://www.therealda...iscography.html[/url] [/quote] Sweet Jebus that's some résumé!

Haha I can just about picture you in a leotard and leggings.... oh my eyes.

[quote name='neepheid' timestamp='1337070934' post='1654760'] I've just received my Roqsolid cover for my RedSub - as you would expect it fits great and of course I took the red seams [/quote] Matt I think you and your RedSub need to get a room, I'm pretty sure Jayne will be getting jealous of your latest bit of fluff.

Separated at birth....

P basses are "in" again just now. There are still some nice Jap basses to be found if you keep an eye out... <snip>.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1337031040' post='1654479'] I can now toddle off to bed in a happy frame of mind and await the new avatar [/quote] Sweet dreams.

[quote name='gary mac' timestamp='1336993390' post='1653572'] ... although been meaning to say for a while now how uneasy your avatar makes me, it's even more unsettling than the cat one. [/quote] Haha I know what you mean. I've been getting kind of bored with it lately... time for a change maybe.