jlepre
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Help! Who can help me?
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drTStingray
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What an excellent thread!! Can't wait to see more pics.
Peach is a great colour and v rare on SR5/SR4. Possibly Sabre? Several of us have been looking for years for one - then a prototype pops up!!! Great story.
Peach is a great colour and v rare on SR5/SR4. Possibly Sabre? Several of us have been looking for years for one - then a prototype pops up!!! Great story.
sanderhermans
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WHAT! A! FIND! So lucky to find this even with original case....
And here some mintgreen dings and dongs.
Now I have a theory about the mintgreen colour of the dings and dongs.
It can not bee an Undercoat as you can see on the neckplate photo were the paint stick on it! Its only peach coloured!!!
My theory is another one.
Maybe the paint is made with a part of copper and the mintgreen you can see is copperoxyd when its react with the sweat or the air moisture. Because the surface of the braking edges are very big and a very good matrix for oxidation !!!
the Surface on the hole body is very small but maybe there is a clear coat on it and maybe in more than hundred years the bass will become mintgreen.
Thats will be a not so cool fantasm!!!:
What do you think about my theory (without the sentence of the hundred years )?
Now I have a theory about the mintgreen colour of the dings and dongs.
It can not bee an Undercoat as you can see on the neckplate photo were the paint stick on it! Its only peach coloured!!!
My theory is another one.
Maybe the paint is made with a part of copper and the mintgreen you can see is copperoxyd when its react with the sweat or the air moisture. Because the surface of the braking edges are very big and a very good matrix for oxidation !!!
the Surface on the hole body is very small but maybe there is a clear coat on it and maybe in more than hundred years the bass will become mintgreen.
Thats will be a not so cool fantasm!!!:
What do you think about my theory (without the sentence of the hundred years )?
Yes , maybe i have to play in a lottery?
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And here some mintgreen dings and dongs.
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Now I have a theory about the mintgreen colour of the dings and dongs.
It can not bee an Undercoat as you can see on the neckplate photo were the paint stick on it! Its only peach coloured!!!
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My theory is another one.
Maybe the paint is made with a part of copper and the mintgreen you can see is copperoxyd when its react with the sweat or the air moisture. Because the surface of the braking edges are very big and a very good matrix for oxidation !!!
the Surface on the hole body is very small but maybe there is a clear coat on it and maybe in more than hundred years the bass will become mintgreen.
Thats will be a not so cool fantasm!!!:
What do you think about my theory (without the sentence of the hundred years )?
I think we're potentially talking two different things here.
The mint green substance you can see in the hole under the neck plate indeed looks like oxidisation, and so does the one under the bridge in the cavity for the grounding wire. I can see similar (also in the battery cavity) on all of my basses from the era with varying degrees, regardless of the finish colour. However, my guess would be that this oxidisation is caused by the proximity of the metal parts (neck plate, bridge, battery cover).
The mint green colour showing in dings elsewhere on your bass - and my peach basses also - baffles me. I have no idea where that comes from. I like your theory about the copper in the paint but it would have to be pretty specific to the peach finish as I don't find those spots on my other basses from the era!
What do you guys think?
MrMusashi
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keep it for another 30 years and you might see a copper churchroof green bass
MrM
MrM
True dat, dollars-wise. But avoiding discussion of value in dollars
as inappropriate here, the insurance concern remains a very valid
question. You can get the ax appraised, and then get a specific
rider in your policy for this special item at the appraised value.
