My second build, low budget creation

[Hopkins]

This is my second bass build that I made for a friend. The bass is already completed but I took a few pictures

Basically this was a parts drawer clean out build. I bought the neck from guitarfetish. The body is one piece of poplar. Its got a MiM Fender P pickup, and a jazzbucker made from a Duncan SJB-3 quarter pound, and an SJB-2 hot. I flipped the q-pound over and ran the wires through the bottom.

Sorry for the crappy cell phone pictures


I tried and failed to use an old pick guard as a router template. Filled the hole with bondo. (most of it was routed back out)



Sprayed with automotive lacquer filler primer.

Pickups and control cavity routed

Automotive urethane finish applied. I stole Big B's idea for a spray jig




And the final product




I'm not really happy with the pick guard, I made a wood template and used a 45 degree chamfer bit on my router table. It didn't make a very clean cut, anybody have any advise for my second attempt?

[Phendyr_Loon]

Sweet build. Love the retro color scheme. The body shape reminds me of the old Mosrite basses.

[daveman50]

Originally Posted by Phendyr_Loon

The body shape reminds me of the old Mosrite basses.

Ya think??

Nice German carve there.
How's the balance? Looks like it might be a diver.

[draftsmann]

Nice looking bass.

For scratchplate bevels, I have a very low-tech but actually quite effective method, which is to finish the edge carefully using a hand-held sharp Stanley knife blade as a scraper. It's slow and laborious, but quite satisfying -and you can see and control exactly what is going on.

[Hopkins]

Originally Posted by daveman50

Ya think??

Nice German carve there.
How's the balance? Looks like it might be a diver.

It has a bit of neck dive but its not to bad. I think some light weight tuners will get rid of it.

[Hopkins]

Originally Posted by draftsmann

Nice looking bass.

For scratchplate bevels, I have a very low-tech but actually quite effective method, which is to finish the edge carefully using a hand-held sharp Stanley knife blade as a scraper. It's slow and laborious, but quite satisfying -and you can see and control exactly what is going on.

Ill give that a try. I was actually just thinking about getting a one ply piece of pg material and not worry with beveling it.

[Achtane]

I like it! Very cool, nice job.

[FedericoC.uy]

Awesome work, congrats!!
Matching headstock and a tort PG should look great

[BassPenguin22]

LOVE the pick guard, hmmm makes me wanna build a bass like thiss

[JMac4strngr]

Very cool bass!
Reminds me of a Univox high-fly'er, an friend of mine has. I will bet Your's plays and sounds 100 times better than the Univox(short scale, ball bat neck, crumby sounding pickups). From what I recall that design does lend itself to be neck heavy. Some Light weight tuners, and/or relocating the strap button should do the trick.

Keep up the good work! Oh yea, Love that color.

[pasta4lnch]

Very nice!

[TheEmptyCell]

Pretty cool design.

[Hopkins]

Thanks alot for the compliments guys

[s_mcsleazy]

loving it mate