Cleaning And Sticker Bombing A Used Bass Guitar
I met someone at a band jam who asked me if I wanted to buy a used bass from him. He said he didn't want / need it and had originally bought it for his son right before he joined the military. It's just been sitting around the house / garage. Along with the bass, he also included a nice Fender 25-Watt amp for a grand total of a whopping $100! The bass was in great shape and didn't seem to have been played much. There were still LOTS of protective plastic "stickers" all over. Things you only typically get to peel off on a brand new instrument. Check out those tuners with protective coverings! I later found that the little round string retainer was actually broken. More on that later. This is a shot before I started working on it. I pulled out a folding table and slowly got to work. One thing at a time. As I started examining the bass more closely I could tell that it had hardly been used but it had been sitting around for quite some time. My estimate from the se...