Hey guys,
I figured I'd do my part and show off the amazing work that John has done for me recently.
Backstory: I always wanted a 1966 Fender Jazz bass like Paul Turner from Jamiroquai uses (Olympic white, matching headstock, tortoise pickguard, binding with dots, and lollipop tuners) but they're crazy expensive. I found a beat up one on ebay for a decent price (which turned out to belong to TB member jk0580) put in a best offer and won it!
It was pretty beat up but nothing terrible. It was stripped, missing a pickguard, ashtrays, knobs, thumbrest, some of the original wiring wasn't there, it had a few extra holes drilled, along with a bunch of dings and dents, fret sprout, and some damaged binding.
Here ares some pics:
The good thing was most of the real important things were there and original: body, neck, pots, tuners, bridge, pickups...
Within a few days I contacted John and shipped the bass off to him. He did some beautiful work!
Binding Repaired:
(he tinted the binding to match afterwords)
Fixing up the neck. See the pic above for how off the contours were and all those dings on the underside:
Body Stripped:
and sealed:
Painted:
And complete!!!!
This restoration went pretty smoothly (according to John) with the exception of having to have the pickups rewound, which was a bit of a surprise but not a huge deal. They were rewound by Seymour Duncan and John says they sound great!
John was a pleasure to deal with and really gives these old instruments the respect they deserve.
The bass is officially on it's way to me so I'll be sure to post more pics and provide more feedback when I get it.
Thanks for checking out my thread and a big thanks again goes out to johnK!!
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