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The Frankenbass Club (Moderately modded basses count too!)

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Tbirdbassist

Tbirdbassist

Jul 2, 2005
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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:

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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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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.

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#4
That LPB Fender is hot!

Here's my custom Niji bass =)

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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
 
#7
My two basses:

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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
 
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msquared said:
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.

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i owned this bass too, and i also miss it terribly.:crying:
 
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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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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/attachment.php?attachmentid=17592&d=1114873996
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17593&d=1114873996
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17591&d=1114871981
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=17590&d=1114871981

SM
 
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