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 Post subject: Too Clean to be REAL??
PostPosted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 10:05 pm 
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Umm.... shouldn't there be some tarnish on this? Somewhere???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1970s-ELECTRA-A ... 35c2b0b6b9
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I would have thought so too until I saw a friends 1971 P bass. It looks just as clean and he gigs with it. If you look at the neck picture, you can see that the fret ends are uneven to the finger board edge. This is a sign of shrinking and swelling of the wood due to humidity changes over time.
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