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Some Buckle Wear...
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 3:23 pm
by lyle_from_minneapolis
Check out "some buckle wear" from this 73 FG on ebay:
Just a little.
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:00 pm
by marc61
Well...maybe only a small part was caused by a belt buckle... the rest was caused by his spiked wristlets and chains when he was putting the bass on, and taking it off...
Or maybe he meant...well most of the finish(over 50%) is still there...
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 4:02 pm
by j_gary
Owned by Elvis?
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:40 pm
by ilan
If this were a 1973 Fender you'd call it 'near mint'.
Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:32 pm
by jnbass
Vintage Edition
Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 4:21 am
by s4001
My 68 has almost that much buckle wear. I still love 'er.
Posted: Wed Jan 17, 2007 7:19 pm
by jim_morris
what I want to know is...how did the buckle turn out?
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 1:44 am
by markbass99
Dude that's a relic, you know how much F*nder gets for a relic? It's obscene that they are getting extra $ for purposely damaging what rick players have done by accident(evidently big belt buckles were very popular in the 70's). Everybody here probably has one, here's my Feb. 73. At first I hated the way it looked and then I warmed up to it when I realized nobody can see it from the front(which is very clean looking). I like to think of it as being an x-ray view of the skunk stripe and underlying wood, which happens to be very clean looking for 34 years old.
Posted: Thu Jan 18, 2007 3:04 am
by basshawk
My '73FG (stolen a couple of years ago) had more than that. It was owned by a police officer who used it in a cop band band called 'Hot Pursuit' and they played in full uniform. Those police belts really do a job to a bass.