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  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,159
    You can tell why they painted the body. It's a lot of pieces. Looks funky in a good way in person, though.
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  • BIGDaddyWil
    BIGDaddyWil Michigan Posts: 3,080
    dudeman said:
    This started out as a black, 94 MIM standard:

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  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,159
    Thanks. It was a fun project. The only things I didn't mess with are the tuners and the neck plate. 

    I refinished the body, swapped the pickup for a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder, the bridge for a hi-mass ESP,  replaced the pots, cap, wiring, jack pickguard and strap buttons. I also polished and crowned the frets, shimmed the neck and hand cut a new nut from a blank of Micarta. The nut has asymmetrical spacing, getting a little farther apart for the higher strings.

    Turned out to be a fun bass to play.
    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    dudeman said:
    This started out as a black, 94 MIM standard:


    That looks Really Good :)
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    dudeman said:
    Thanks. It was a fun project. The only things I didn't mess with are the tuners and the neck plate. 

    I refinished the body, swapped the pickup for a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pounder, the bridge for a hi-mass ESP,  replaced the pots, cap, wiring, jack pickguard and strap buttons. I also polished and crowned the frets, shimmed the neck and hand cut a new nut from a blank of Micarta. The nut has asymmetrical spacing, getting a little farther apart for the higher strings.

    Turned out to be a fun bass to play.

    Yeah that sounds good man...I want to do something like this but just with a Cheap Bass I already have...I want to just pull it apart and get new parts for it and out it back together again...
  • DeLukin
    DeLukin Posts: 2,757
    I have an American Standard P Bass and love it. I've also owned a MIM Jazz bass and prefer the P Bass in every way.
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  • dudeman
    dudeman Posts: 3,159


    This is the same bass posted farther up. Made a few changes since the last post. 
    If hope can grow from dirt like me, it can be done. - EV

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