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Dusty Hill custom shop....
« on: September 06, 2015, 05:38:20 AM »

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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2015, 11:56:45 AM »
You'll have to take the Minimalist Bass Player's Oath: "I promise to play the root, the whole root and nothing but the root, so help me Dusty Hill."

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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2015, 04:07:27 PM »
That's a bugger... it's all scratched up...
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2015, 04:38:13 PM »
I'll ask for a discount then.. ;)

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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2015, 05:12:22 PM »
Isn't that the factory finish for that bass? They should throw in a free chisel and chainsaw in case you want to add to the ambience....
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2015, 02:56:34 AM »
Isn't that the factory finish for that bass? They should throw in a free chisel and chainsaw in case you want to add to the ambience....

Yes..that's the finish from Fender custom shop


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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2015, 07:50:07 AM »
glad you got the bass you wanted. i do wonder how the idea of a reliced dusty hill bass came about. all the basses i've seen him with are pretty clean looking, although i did see one with the wear marks above the pickup.
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2015, 08:20:18 AM »
That is one of the coolest looking basses I have ever seen. If it plays as good as it looks, you've got a bass for life.
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2015, 10:16:01 AM »
I love it! I love the Tele headstock in general, having it reversed works for me too. I do like the black one much better than the gold one.

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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2015, 10:36:09 AM »
I like it too.  Enjoy!
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #10 on: September 08, 2015, 06:31:50 AM »
I put a lefty neck on my Jazz bass (which is also sporting PJ pickups and currently isn't working). Where did Dusty get the idea?

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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #11 on: September 08, 2015, 07:00:26 AM »
people have been doing that since the sixties both to basses and guitars.
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #12 on: September 08, 2015, 07:28:08 AM »
I gather Glenn Cornick did it out of necessity as he wore out the frets on his Jazz bass. Clearly a lefty neck in the Rock and Roll Circus video, but by 1969 he had another neck on there with a weird headstock.  :-\

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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #13 on: September 09, 2015, 01:16:35 PM »
She remembers me something familiar. Mine has a little more chrome, that is always good ;)
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Re: Dusty Hill custom shop....
« Reply #14 on: September 09, 2015, 10:05:38 PM »
That's a lot of CDs.
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