NBD: Bluesman Vintage CUSTOM '57 P
 

This will take some explaining but the pics will tell the story on the fit and finish....I wanted to do something out of the ordinary and asked John at Bluesman how creative I could be....

The results are FAR better than I expected with the paint and the bass itself just sings! So if Sting explored his colorful artistic side in the 80's he might have come up with something like this:

Started with a primer coat over a nice ash 57 P body


Rout for a jazz bass neck as opposed to traditional P bass with the square heel


Pick your paint colors and apply liberally



Select your parts and assemble






and PLAY!!!!! Video is loading to youtube as I type this!!

cool..

wow.the bluesman creations never cease to amaze me..

it is nice to be able to think outside the box...and have someone who can help create it!

Mega cool

Nice.

Loving, especially not having a pickguard.

it wouldn't be right to cover the cool paint with a guard...

:cool:

WOW!! I'm having an acid flash-back.

:D

and video of what it sounds like
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA44U...-vUbIQ&index=1

this^^

Gotta love colors...

WOW. I LOVE EVERYTHING ABOUT IT. Beautiful.

I like the pink cable. ;)

That's really nice!

And exactly what the insides of my eyelids look like during my old man afternoon snooze.

Jaymi, I dig your enthusiasm!
It's great to feel excited about an instrument you built or had built.

That's an awesome finish, cool specs. and that bass has some serious GROWWWLLLL.

Keep having fun~:D

I fully intend to...There will prob be a couple more along the way...

The "Indian Funk" rocks...

Cool man!

Awesome.