Guitar
This is a project that I started a LONG time ago and finally completed.
This started out as a natural finish Gibson RD Bass, with a headstock repair and very worn down or filed down, frets.
The early steps in this project are covered in this blog entry, but I'll summarize what was done.
-The neck was shaved down slightly to thin down the profile, though the width of the fretboard was not changed.
-The frets were removed and the entire fretboard was stripped and re-radiused, and then refretted.
-The finish on the rest of the bass was stripped, and then the bass was refinished in Ember Red lacquer, a very uncommon 60s Gibson custom color.
-The routings were modified for two Rickenbacker humbucking pickups, the wiring was modified to be similar to a Fender Jazz bass, and a new pickguard was fabricated to work with them.
-The bridge and tuners were replaced with higher quality units.
-The knobs were replaced with 60s style Gibson reflector knobs.
The end result is a pretty awesome looking and nice playing bass - though the neck is still quite chunky.
The look reminds me of John Entwistle's Fender-bird basses - which had various Thunderbird style bodies married to Fender Precision necks.
- Thomas Shows Us His Fender Precision Twin Humbucker "tombass"
guitarz.blogspot.com: Bonjour M. Wilson; I'm a long time reader of your blog ... Thanks a lot for this daily "Guitarz minute"!! Here is my bass (and its story): It started as a US Fender PBass of 1989 bougth in 2000 with Seymour Duncan active pickups...
- Musicmaster Disaster: Completed
Here's a long overdue follow-up on a post from a few years ago. I started off with an early 70s poplar Fender Musicmaster Bass body that had been mercilessly routed for different pickups and then apparently broken in half and badly reglued together. ...
- Sold: 1975 Musicmaster Bass Dakota Red Refin
Another wonderful little Musicmaster Bass - this one from 1975, but still with the early style tuners and neck. This bass was a project bass I got from Daddy's Junky Music many years ago - it was originally Dakota Red, but had been subject to an...
- 1978 Fender Jazz Bass Refin Project
(originally published 12. October 2007) I just started a new project on behalf of a customer this past Wednesday - its a 1978 Fender Jazz bass thats been through a lot and had a partial refin over the years. The bass has replacement tuners and bridge...
- 1978 Musicmaster Bass Project
(originally posted 8. October 2007 on http://s217476017.onlinehome.us/) Hi there, I decided that a blog would be a more flexible forum for me to not only share info and pictures covering guitar projects I'm working on, but also just generally...
Guitar
Gibson RD Bass Make-over: Finally finished !!
This is a project that I started a LONG time ago and finally completed.
This started out as a natural finish Gibson RD Bass, with a headstock repair and very worn down or filed down, frets.
The early steps in this project are covered in this blog entry, but I'll summarize what was done.
-The neck was shaved down slightly to thin down the profile, though the width of the fretboard was not changed.
-The frets were removed and the entire fretboard was stripped and re-radiused, and then refretted.
-The finish on the rest of the bass was stripped, and then the bass was refinished in Ember Red lacquer, a very uncommon 60s Gibson custom color.
-The routings were modified for two Rickenbacker humbucking pickups, the wiring was modified to be similar to a Fender Jazz bass, and a new pickguard was fabricated to work with them.
-The bridge and tuners were replaced with higher quality units.
-The knobs were replaced with 60s style Gibson reflector knobs.
The end result is a pretty awesome looking and nice playing bass - though the neck is still quite chunky.
The look reminds me of John Entwistle's Fender-bird basses - which had various Thunderbird style bodies married to Fender Precision necks.
- Thomas Shows Us His Fender Precision Twin Humbucker "tombass"
guitarz.blogspot.com: Bonjour M. Wilson; I'm a long time reader of your blog ... Thanks a lot for this daily "Guitarz minute"!! Here is my bass (and its story): It started as a US Fender PBass of 1989 bougth in 2000 with Seymour Duncan active pickups...
- Musicmaster Disaster: Completed
Here's a long overdue follow-up on a post from a few years ago. I started off with an early 70s poplar Fender Musicmaster Bass body that had been mercilessly routed for different pickups and then apparently broken in half and badly reglued together. ...
- Sold: 1975 Musicmaster Bass Dakota Red Refin
Another wonderful little Musicmaster Bass - this one from 1975, but still with the early style tuners and neck. This bass was a project bass I got from Daddy's Junky Music many years ago - it was originally Dakota Red, but had been subject to an...
- 1978 Fender Jazz Bass Refin Project
(originally published 12. October 2007) I just started a new project on behalf of a customer this past Wednesday - its a 1978 Fender Jazz bass thats been through a lot and had a partial refin over the years. The bass has replacement tuners and bridge...
- 1978 Musicmaster Bass Project
(originally posted 8. October 2007 on http://s217476017.onlinehome.us/) Hi there, I decided that a blog would be a more flexible forum for me to not only share info and pictures covering guitar projects I'm working on, but also just generally...