Engagement bass build!!

jaebee · #1 01-07-2008, 11:01 AM

Hey all. I am soon to be engaged, and the love of my life decided to make me a bass for an engagement present (she gets a shiny ring, i get a shiny bass)

(With a little help from me) She bought all of the parts from warmoth.com, and a set of big singles from nordstrand. Shes doing a custom paint job and is currently varnishing it.

Here is the body after primer and after painting. The neck is coming at some point and everything else is just waiting to be installed.

I just thought I would share with you all

Darkstrike · #2 01-07-2008, 11:03 AM

SAWEEETTTT!

PseudoGnosis · #3 01-07-2008, 11:51 AM

I was scrolling down looking at the primer and I was like "....eeeeh" and then I got to the actual paint and BAM. Face full of awesome. Very nice

dreadheadbass · #4 01-07-2008, 11:59 AM

this is unfair u get engaged and you get a bass i got engaged and got asked to take rubbish to the tip then got shouted at for not putting a coaster under my coffe mug

have to say though that is a sweet looking bass

wdinc01 · #5 01-07-2008, 04:35 PM

Am I the only one who turned his head to read that little comic in the neck pocket?

Seriously, sweet looking bass. I think she's a keeper!

ehque · #6 01-11-2008, 05:29 AM

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Originally Posted by wdinc01

Am I the only one who turned his head to read that little comic in the neck pocket?

Bizarro, i believe. It's not a bad comic, but its a tad weird. Nice paint job, thought the primer was it as well, but the finished stuff looks great.

jaebee · #7 02-08-2008, 02:08 PM

finished the poly the other night and got all of the hard ware installed. waiting on the neck to come in a few days. will try to post some pics before, but definately will after.

idler · #8 02-09-2008, 04:21 AM

Very nice! That the G5 body shape? I just ordered one of those with a trans black dye over a quilted maple top. That design on yours is all kinds of great

robert43 · #9 02-09-2008, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dreadheadbass

this is unfair u get engaged and you get a bass i got engaged and got asked to take rubbish to the tip then got shouted at for not putting a coaster under my coffe mug

have to say though that is a sweet looking bass

LOL all I got was a bill for the ring had to work 2 months over time to pay for it LOL
Any way it looks nice bass so far I am intrested in seeing the final product

jaebee · #10 03-03-2008, 10:48 PM

finally got engaged (feb 14) and finally got my bass (back from getting a nut installed the other day) i am pissed because the guy who did the $30 setup did a crap job, i have had to readjust action and intonation, and hindsight shouldn't have gotten it (as it was a new neck and all)

anyways here is the final product.

Green Mind · #11 03-03-2008, 11:27 PM

Haha the ghosts of Christmas specials...

I love the paint job, I want to do something like that to my T-20

Delta_Petra · #12 03-03-2008, 11:46 PM

Wow, that is awesome. When I got engaged I got a $16 ring, though my wife did get me an Epiphone Thunderbird for an early Christmas present.
That paint job gives me some cool ideas for my current frankenbass project.

jaebee · #13 03-05-2008, 12:39 PM

thanks, it is supposed to say my heart in some obscure graph. text, but i always see a guy in a sombrero

Darkstrike · #14 03-05-2008, 01:18 PM

Woah, thats sweet!

Vic Winters · #15 03-05-2008, 01:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jaebee

Hey all. I am soon to be engaged, and the love of my life decided to make me a bass for an engagement present (she gets a shiny ring, i get a shiny bass)

As it should be.

Very nice.

comet909 · #16 03-05-2008, 01:41 PM

Bass looks awesome. When I got engaged all I got out of the deal was a baby.

tZer · #17 03-05-2008, 01:53 PM

That is so cool! Both the bass and what your sweetie did for you! You are a lucky man!

newfuture · #18 03-05-2008, 02:03 PM

that is beyond effin' cool.