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bassduke49 wrote:Very nice! What would you call the new color? It looks like metallic orange in the photos(?).

I call it "inca gold". It seems orange in the photos, but it is a antique deep gold color.

Hello there, I have finished the bass two months ago. Here are some pictures of the process and finished work. http://i127.photobucket.com/albums/p141/8471574/A1.jpg The bass was originally a White 4003 from 1989 that was repainted and altered few times along his life with no good results. My comiss...

Hello, I'm sorry if this is not the section for this question. I'm trying to contact Santa Ana factory for a question, but I have obtained no answer since two month ago. No answer by email... no answer by phone... no answer by fax... I'm worried. Seems they have been swallowed by the earth. Someone ...

Thank you, Paul
I have sanded the entire guitar and sprayed again a top clear coat.
Problem is fixed.

Thank you again

Hello friends. Someone have seen before this problem? http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8216/img2012040300065.jpg I have the comission of restore this 360, and I prefer to ask prior in the forum for the best advice. I wonder if this will be fixed sanding the surface varnish and buffing again. Someo...

Thank you very much to everyone for the answers. I'm a fan of the Paul Wilczynski works, who's ever a inspiration for me every time I start a new project. I'm in process to open a web page with my services, and pictures of the jobs I've done, but I'm very lazy with computers and I never have the tim...

Thank you for the answers. My client is not a collector, but I think he wants a bass that can be sold inthe future like a very beauty instrument. Originallythe bass was white, but he paint was very oldand yellowish.The bass was restored few years ago by a no professional painter, and the finishing w...

Hello everybody, this is my first post. I'm luthier,and I have a small workshop in Barcelona, Spain, where I only work on restoration and repair jobs of Rickenbacker guitarsand basses. I have a lot of replacement parts in black for 4003 basses,and also some gold chromed hardware that I have made for...