My first bass was an Ibanez Blazer. When I bought it second hand in 1983 it had already been refinned. Or rather, the previous owner had stripped the original lacquer off and used some sort of garden stain that never really hardened. I could make in dents in it with my finger nails.
The frets were covered with lacquer too. It chipped off where the strings hit them. Or where I scratched it off with my nails. Which I did on all of them eventually.
When I went to the Arts Academy I took it into the wood shop and sanded the refin off with a belt sander... And I reshaped the body...sort of like a Warwick with a curved body... And I made it fretless... and a few months later I refretted it again... and I reshaped the headstock to a 3+1...
Oh the cruelty. The poor thing never did no harm.
I sold it to a punk rocker who like the mutilated look of it...
Wouldn't want one back.
Or maybe if it were very cheap and in pristine condition, which mine never was (in my hands).
