Rayman Posted September 10 Posted September 10 So I bought an SR506 for a very reasonable price from Gumtree, way less than the normal asking price…… thought I had a bargain…. However on picking it up, the reason for the low price became evident….. It’s been brush painted with some god awful wood stain, something akin to Cuprinol. The pickups and hardware all show traces of the stuff, so it wasn’t even masked up 🤦🏻♂️ Needless to say, challenge accepted and it’s already in bits…. No idea what those crazy compression marks are? Looks like someone went at it with a sander at some point…. The fun begins Watch this space 2 Quote
Rayman Posted September 10 Author Posted September 10 The neck is already undergoing treatment 1 Quote
Rayman Posted September 10 Author Posted September 10 The neck is lovely, but the body wood, Mahogany I assume is very light with everything stripped off, and feels, frankly, like a bit of driftwood. Not exactly grade A timber. 2 Quote
Mediocre Polymath Posted September 10 Posted September 10 (edited) That's an interesting thing, good luck. I very nearly bought an SR500 that was in a similar condition and going for about 80 quid, but chickened out at the last minute. I think one of the eras of this bass (I think the mid-to-late 2000s) had a weird matt brown finish that looked like stain, but was actually some sort of extremely thin and fragile lacquer. I think this probably is one of those basses that someone tried to fix. It almost always wore away around where people's hands/picks touched, and as you say, once the protective finish was gone the wood itself wasn't very resilient. The one I was looking at had a 1-cm deep gouge, like a valley leading down to the pickups. Nice basses though, despite all that. Edited September 10 by Mediocre Polymath 1 Quote
Rayman Posted September 11 Author Posted September 11 Yes I was never a fan of the colour on these historically, so working in the joinery coatings industry, I’m sure I can make it more palatable. It’s not even really the colour, it’s just the way someone has just brush applied some fence paint to it with no care at all. Any road, we’ll see where it goes. 1 Quote
Rayman Posted 2 hours ago Author Posted 2 hours ago Stripped and re-waxed the body… cleaned all the hardware…. The neck has come up lovely…. Ibanez definitely put the money into the neck materials, because the body is a right lump of low grade mahogany. Anyway, it’s taking shape 2 Quote
PaulThePlug Posted 1 hour ago Posted 1 hour ago (edited) My Cheapy 500 came with a well worn finish!.. Bit of a sand, few coats of truoil applied with wet and dry, then a bit of a wax applied with a scotchbrite pad and buff rub... Bit of damage around the controls. Mk 1 Barts (Reverse P in a soap bar) Passive, Volume and 3 position pickup switch. And this found under the brown finish on the headstock. Edited 57 minutes ago by PaulThePlug 1 Quote
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