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08-13-2011, 10:25 PM
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As the title states. The term seemed to surface with some very custom or somewhat hacked instruments such as Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein guitar or Wolfgangs bass.  
When I think of the term it is pieces and parts from instruments that were never meant to be mated together, but someome made them work..
But now the term seems to be misused for just about anything.. Frankenstein Not a jazz neck on a precision (or vice versa) which you have been able to buy in some form from Fender.....
Thoughts? Discuss.....
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08-13-2011, 10:27 PM
| | | | Wasn't Frankenstein the doctor anyway?
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08-13-2011, 10:39 PM
|  | Supporting Member | | | | | to me it means that original parts have been replaced and\or modified.
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08-13-2011, 10:46 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Durham, NC | | | A Jazz neck on a Precision bass is a Frankenstein. For me, changing the neck is the threshold. A bass with a different neck than it was born with is a Frankenstein. Changing out the tuners or pickups or bridge is what I would term a "mod."
And by the way.... that EVH'ed Precision is RAD!
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08-13-2011, 11:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Virginia Beach, VA | | I think mine could match your definition... 
Swapping necks is cool...but not "franken" enough. More like a transplant.
But that's "franken" in itself...hmm...
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08-14-2011, 12:14 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Perth, WA, Australia | | | Something built up from parts of different instruments. My number 1 Precision has parts from at least 3 different ones. All original Fender bits from the '70's and '80's.
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08-14-2011, 12:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Portland, OR | | | Really, it means taking parts from other makes and piecing a bass together.
Fender body, Epiphone neck, etc.
Just like Dr. Frankenstein used parts from different bodies to make his "monster".
Loosely used term for any non-stock replacement part replacing a stock part like P body with a J neck...
Modded is usually swapping out tuners or preamps or pups....
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08-14-2011, 06:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Middle Tennessee | | | I'm thinking the term has more to do with a modded ax in the context of Al Franken, the senator from Minnesota.
It pertains to any modification that was funny at first but now appears silly and senseless. |
08-14-2011, 07:02 AM
|  | Basement Clef | | Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Below Ground, Detroit area | | | I think the Fender-Birds where one of the original 'Frankenstein' type instruments.
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08-14-2011, 07:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Olde Axeman  I'm thinking the term has more to do with a modded ax in the context of Al Franken, the senator from Minnesota.
It pertains to any modification that was funny at first but now appears silly and senseless. | 
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08-14-2011, 07:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2011 Location: fort worth, texas | | | so, to be "frankened", it has to be done crudely? to me it's just parts from different basses, non-stock parts. but, i guess that really isn't specific enough to discern it from "modded"......but don't they kinda overlap? |
08-14-2011, 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted by DasClyde Wasn't Frankenstein the doctor anyway? | Exactly. IIRC, in Shelley's book, the creature's name was "Adam".
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08-14-2011, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted by C.Linton Exactly. IIRC, in Shelley's book, the creature's name was "Adam". | Was it really? I always thought it was frankenstein monster.
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08-14-2011, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by C.Linton Exactly. IIRC, in Shelley's book, the creature's name was "Adam". | I thought it was A. B. Normal.
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08-14-2011, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga I thought it was A. B. Normal. | +1
or ABBY NORMAL
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08-14-2011, 11:39 AM
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Originally Posted by bassfunk329 Was it really? I always thought it was frankenstein monster. | Only in the movies. I'm talking the original book By Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
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08-14-2011, 11:48 AM
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08-14-2011, 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Olde Axeman I'm thinking the term has more to do with a modded ax in the context of Al Franken, the senator from Minnesota.
It pertains to any modification that was funny at first but now appears silly and senseless. |  
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08-14-2011, 01:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: St. Petersburg, FL | | | A neck switch from a bass which comes from the same company, fits without modification and a configuration you can buy from said company, is not "Franken". IMHO... Most of the time people would not even be able to tell...
Now if you pulled a neck from an OLP, MM or Gibson and put it on a Fender, then were talking Franken... Route out a body and put a pick-up in that was never meant to be there.... Etc...
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08-14-2011, 05:46 PM
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