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No finish, yet the most playable of basses


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So since the turn of the year I have been having lessons at my local music school and I’m loving it. 

My tutor has a ‘jazz’ bass in the studio that he put together himself a few years ago from a new Fender body, and an older Fender neck. The neck has that lovely played in feel but the body, which was a straight out of the box unfinished replacement, feels just so tactile and ‘right’. I’m guessing it’s probably got a coat of factory sanding sealer on it, but that’s all. No shiny gloss finish or faked relic’ing, just the bumps and knocks you’d expect of a well played bass. Sound wise, it’s the most vibrant jazz I’ve played, but not in a nasty honky trebly way, just in a lovely musical way. Single notes ring out, chords sound massive but clean, and it really responds when you ‘dig in’. Perhaps this is the future, just unabashed naked wood?

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On 10/06/2019 at 17:11, White Cloud said:

Can you share a pic with us? Sounds great, would love a gander!

Here you go, a quick snap from this mornings lesson 😎

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Sorry to disagree, if you handled the bass you would feel that it is quite rough. At best its got a sanding sealer on it, nothing more. There are a couple of shiney areas due to use (forearm contour, bottom edge where it sits on your leg)

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You can have a rough as a bears backside finish even with gloss, that is purely down to the effort put into the wood first. It is completely irrelevant to the finish. If a surface is rough it won’t suddenly be smooth if you varnish it. That is 100% not unfinished wood.

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