Mustang Bass: COMPETITION ORANGE! FINISHED!

Painting? Routing? Set-up tips? Or just straight-up making a guitar from scratch? Post here, and post pics!

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Mungodora wrote:Never fancied an Orange instrument before... but that looks totally sweet. Can we see a demo Vid of how it looks and sounds when the jobs all done... pretty please :P
I could do a video demo... but the quality will be utterly shit. All I have is a crappy camcorder that I bought for $99 new, so it will be cell phone quality video at best :P

EDIT: Actually, it would be fun to do a demo with both this bass and my Japanese RI mustang bass, since they sound quite different. I'll look around and see if I can find something decent to record with.
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Cool astro :) looking forward to it mate, just use whatever's best that you got knocking around, and rock out like a mofo.
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I finished sanding and polishing today. I've stuck everything back together, but I didn't bother putting strings on yet, since it needs a new nut. I'm neither skilled enough nor equipped to make a bass nut, so next week I'm taking her to my local luthier to have that done for me.

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ooh, sheckshay. well done son.
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Post by Gabriel »

Thats awesome, really really nice.
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very nice, fellow montrealer!!
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oh wow... ok now, please send it back to me!!! :shock:

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she looks fantastic in her new dress. congrats!!!

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Absolute class.
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Thanks for the kind words, folks!

I'm really wishing that whoever stripped the body had also stripped the headstock... because that would have been the perfect excuse for a matching headstock.
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looks impeccable, astro.
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just posting for future reference:

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James wrote:Absolute class.
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Seriously seriously good looking - my ideal bass bar none.
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Looks brand new! Great job.
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Post by Phil O'Keefe »

Fantastic job - it really looks good! 8) 8) 8)
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perfect
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Post by 24HRS2MDNT »

Orange looks great with that aged headstock.