Brief & Accurate Description of gear/guitar: Up for grabs is my old P bass body. I dont know if its fender or not, but I believe it may be a 70's fender body. Also almost positive its alder. It has really old school CTS pots and a disk cap. I got it as a package with a 64 P bass neck that I...
I've had this beauty for a couple of months, but decided I'd go ahead and share it anyways. I haven't really seen any of these anywhere else, and I honestly forgot (sorry) about this site for awhile. Got it through a craigslist ad. I had always wanted a semi-hollow, but recently attending a...
Ash Body
Maple Neck and fingerboard
B Shape neck (thicker than the C, feels like a slight V shape)
Lollar pickups
Medium Aging, 1 ply black pickguard
Nitrocellulose Lacquer finish
Gotoh vintage style hardware, Compensated bridge saddles for better intonation
10" fingerboard radius
Dunlop...
Always wanted a worn down aged looking gold top, something about it is just beautiful.
So list of mods.
Deglossed Body and Plastics
Aged Metals
Aged Plastics
Polished body back up to a very very light semi gloss
New Pots and Switch
New Knobs from my 50's tribute, fits this guitar better
ok lets get this out of the way right now, if you dont like relics hit your back button.
I use to run a website called Vintaged Guitars where I did relic work and made custom instruments, this all came to a end when the economy crashed and I just lost interest in doing the work. Anyways...
ok so I haven't exactly finished yet, but here are some pics up until where I'm at right now.
When I was taking off the strings (ok the trem but whatever)
Trem out, I took off the pot washers
EMG OUT!
took off the jack thingy
popped off the back cover...and took...