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Post subject: Refinishing Questions
Posted: Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:57 pm
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I have a 1959 maple neck Precision that was refinished several decades ago (natural finish). I am thinking about having it refinished to a more year-appropriate color. Also, the body is not particularly well-suited to natural, as you can see where the two pieces of the body were glued together. That leads me to think that it might have been a custom color, as the glue-up would also show through on a sunburst (seems like I read somewhere that Fender would set aside bodies that had grain match problems for solid color). So here's my questions:

1) What are the most age appropriate colors? Most of what I can find out from P-bass book and online is that most of these basses were sunburst, and if it was color would most likely have been Olympic White. Any other sources I should check, or info from anyone on this forum?

2) Type of finish/who to use - there are a ton of good refinishers out there...most of what I see steers me towards a nitro finish. I am not interested in a "relic" finish; the neck has tons of authentic "mojo" from 50+ years of playing, but I just can't see paying someone good money to make the body look old.

Any thoughts out there from fellow P-bass owners?


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Post subject: Re: Refinishing Questions
Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 10:45 am
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The first question should be- What color do you like?
Then check and see if Fender offered it in '59.

I would say that you could probably do you bass in: Olympic white, Candy Apple Red, Foam green, Shell pink, Burgundy mist or Lake Placid Blue and still be faithful to what an original '59 could have looked like. It was certainly a nitro finish back in 1959.
The key component is that the finish should be very thin so the bass can resonate.

If you have the aluminum/gold anodized PG then you may want to consider how is the new color going to look with the pickguard?

There are many re-finishers out there. I would only trust my 59 to someone who is very good.

Good luck with your project.

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