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Old 04-30-2013, 12:53 AM
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Default polish..

Be careful using any kind of polish on an old bass with cracks. Pushing oils into the bass will make it harder to close the cracks when they re-open in the future and they will open some day.

Diamonds? Oh, inside the back center. They are just to cover the joint there. Different makers do it different ways but usually something is there on the joint. I don't think it prevents all the much but it might be better to have them than not.

The bass itself looks like a quality bass of its time. My first impressions are about what I see. The number 7 might be from a School that marked its instruments or a dealers stock.
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