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Maybe the older forum members can help with this... What's up with guitars from the 70s always being stripped down to bare wood? Old strats and pauls in shops and on ebay from that era... they've always been stripped down to bare wood and varnished.

I could accept it as a fad, but then again you don't see any guitars from previous eras met with the same treatment hardly (you'd expect people would have stripped used guitars too, 50s and 60s strats were cheap enough it seems). So is there some weird conspiracy? Did you all just looooove wood in the 70s?

Perhaps paint in the 70s just peeled way easier. My mom had a Probe (insert obvious alien/fetish joke) who's paint peeled in a similar fashion, but it was made in the 80s, which just confuses me more.

explain?

slade

Worship my excessively badly refinished 1965 Jazz Bass. Some sort of walnut stain and the lacquer is BRUSHED on and you can still see the brushmarks in the lacquer. It's like a 7th grade woodshop project gone wrong. I think it used to be Fiesta Red originally- and dude was proud enough of his work, he signed and dated it.I've been wanting to build a raw style guitar for a while.... Maybe use Violin finnishing....

Some guitars do look good with a natural finish... but most of the ones that are stripped of their solid finishes you can tell were painted a solid color for a reason; to disguise an ugly piece of wood, or a body made from 5 pieces, none of which match. The Jazz don't look too bad Gold!

So THAT's what the European Union did after it's new years eve party in 1972!

slade

you said woody!

I-I did not!!! Please don't tell my mom, sir...

Maybe this is only the start of a multitude of homoerotic mistakes I will inadvertently make.

keep an eye on me

slade

Keep an eye on you as you make homoerotic mistakes?