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08-19-2006, 10:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | | The Frankenbass Club (Moderately modded basses count too!)
Alright folks, with all this "clubbing" going on I thought it was only fair to stat a club for the many Modded/Frankenbass owners here on TB.
If your bass is a ebay/parts bass, has any electronic changes or enhancements, major visual differences from stock... Post it here! Give us full details and all that jazz.
If you'd like to be assigned a member number to sport in your sig PM me and I'll give it to ya. Now... Show me those Frankenbasses!
Here's mine:   
Franken-Pbass specs:
-Wendy Davis Precision bass body in Lake Placid Blue
-Seymour Duncan Vintage P pickup
-Tortoise Picguard
-Hipshot Bridge
-Schaller Tuners
-Neck is from a ESP early 90's/late 80's Jazz bass w/ Tele bass headstock
-Jazz-ish profile, 1.5 inch nut
-Headstock painted to match body and fitted with Fender decals
The black Ibanez GSR 190 (The Wife):
-Badass II bridge.
-Dirmazio Ultra Jazz Pickups, wired Volume-Blend-Tone
-Defretted and left raw
-Neck Shimmed
-Stock Tuners/Body/Neck
-Headstock was natural but is now black
Show yours!
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08-19-2006, 10:30 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Kansas City | | From the old school, but I was just thinking about this the other day so up it goes: My old Modulus Flea that I had a Nordstrand MM5.2 pickup installed into. Not horribly frankensteined but the pickup changed the sound pretty radically (for the better, IMO). I miss this bass a lot and I hope to build a fretless version someday.  |
08-19-2006, 10:36 PM
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Designer: Beav's Graphics | | Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Middle Tennessee | | 
20th Anniversary Jazz Body
TEAM Jazz Neck
SD Hot Jazz pickups
Badass II Bridge
Neck pickup cover
Painted pickguard
Hipshot X-tender
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08-20-2006, 12:06 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NYC & Vancouver, BC | | That LPB Fender is hot!
Here's my custom Niji bass =)  
Here're the final specs from my other thread:
Allparts Shoreline Gold Jazz body (ash)
Allparts Parchment pickguard
Allparts 70s Marcus Miller style bound neck with pearl block inlays
Audere 2-band Preamp (Volume/Volume/Stacked Bass + Treble)
Nordstrand NJ4SV Pickups
BadAss II Bridge |
08-20-2006, 05:18 AM
|  | No need to ask, he's a smooth... Moderator | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: West Midlands UK | |
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08-20-2006, 11:52 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Italy | | | |
08-20-2006, 12:10 PM
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Director - Barefaced Ltd | | Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Brighton, UK | | My two basses: 
1987 Warwick Streamer
Modifications:
Brass nut to Just-A-Nut II graphite
Alloy truss rod to stainless steel
Electronics from 9V to 18V
MEC2 preamp replaced with Aguilar OBP-3
Three mini-switches added for pickup selection, mid freq, preamp bypass
1990 Hohner Jack
Modifications:
Defretted
Fingerboard filled, planed and varnished
All gloss black paint stripped, and bare wood waxed
P/J stock pickups to with Bart J pickup
MEC2 preamp added
Standard jack to Neutrik locking jack
Great basses!
Alex |
08-20-2006, 01:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Marcus Alan That LPB Fender is hot!
| Well thank you!
Bassybill, you forgot to gve the specs on your jazzes. That turqoise is beautiful. Do they have graphite necks?
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08-20-2006, 04:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Lowell, MA | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by msquared From the old school, but I was just thinking about this the other day so up it goes: My old Modulus Flea that I had a Nordstrand MM5.2 pickup installed into. Not horribly frankensteined but the pickup changed the sound pretty radically (for the better, IMO). I miss this bass a lot and I hope to build a fretless version someday. |
i owned this bass too, and i also miss it terribly. 
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08-20-2006, 07:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey | | hopefully i can be a member soon. i just sent my money order for the darkstar pickups going into my ibanez sr400 along with a custom cut pickguard. should be pretty awesome.
just gotta wait 4 weeks  |
08-20-2006, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Jamaica, Queens, NY. By JFK. | | | I'm really looking forward to seeing that bass PMC. It will definitely be a first.
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08-20-2006, 07:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Chicago, IL | | this is kinda frankensteined: 
it's not finished yet, but it'll be a body built by me and fitted with the neck, hardware, and guts of an Ibanez GSR200.
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08-20-2006, 08:16 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: atlanta | | | I don't think I have any pictures of it anymore, but I took my Rogue SX100B, defretted it, put a black hipshot (I think) bridge on it, an Austin P bass neck (I sanded the Austin off), I put Seymour Duncan OPB-3 P bass pickups in, put black knobs on, and I tried to put blue LED's in the knobs, but I'm pretty sure I messed the body up somehow, so all I have is my KSD.
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08-20-2006, 08:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2006 Location: New Jersey | | Quote: |
Originally Posted by Tbirdbassist I'm really looking forward to seeing that bass PMC. It will definitely be a first. | this is true. and it should sound unbelievable. fred hammon and his darkstars are a new level of (retro) but modern pickups. plus, itll look sick  . |
08-20-2006, 08:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Arab, Al. | | Here's my parts jazz! Repainted Hwy 1 body, Geddy Lee Jazz neck, 60's custom shop pickups, and a J retro deluxe preamp.
John 
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08-20-2006, 08:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: NYC & Vancouver, BC | | | Pretty sick! I once lusted over a Precision of a similar look to that one. |
08-21-2006, 08:54 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2004 Location: Denver, CO | | My Franken - J;
Body origin and composition unknown, I _believe_ it's rosewood, it's heavy enough to be rosewood anyway.... the rest is Mighty Mite P neck, Bart NTBT pre-amp, 92 series pickups, various generic E-bay parts (neck plate, tuners, knobs, pickguard) big ugly bridge from Custom Shop Parts... http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...2&d=1114873996 http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...3&d=1114873996 http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...1&d=1114871981 http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attach...0&d=1114871981
SM
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08-21-2006, 10:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: cheltenham uk | | | my jazz
this used to be a 91 jap fender 62 reissue, now only three of the tuners and the body are left, it has a jretro preamp, a status graphite neck, hipshot detuner, fretfx lesd, emg pups, badass bridge, roller string tree, pearl plate, new neck plate etc    
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08-21-2006, 10:20 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Tampa, Florida | | 
Warmoth jazz body
Moses jazz neck
Duncan QP pickups
Sadowski preamp
Schaller tuners
Badass II bridge
WD pickguard
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