Recent content by Mark34

I did some touch-up to the first picture. John is in the back of the garage/workshop, just behind some nearly finished bass guitars. On the right side, there are necks and bodies waiting to be painted. His "paint booth" is behind him to the left.

Well, I finally found some pictures of John in his home workshop and paint booth....

Hi Richard, I just got back online here at TalkBass and caught up with this thread. Thanks for you recollections of John. The times I would visit him, he was always alone -- i.e. no one else at the house -- but he did talk about people he knew. I don't remember him mentioning you...

I learned bass on a Fender Musicmaster. No regrets except selling it. But it went to a teen wanting to learn bass, so not strongly regretting that.

Thanks for suggestion. I have searched EB, CL, and Reverb. No hits. But didn't save those searches, didn't know I could. So will go back and do so. Mark

Last rooms I saw John was in '81, more than forty years ago. If I remember, I had some cheap, small format film cartridge camera. I wasn't into creating photo album that (nor now). So if I have any pictures, it will be a process of digging through prints from that time. (Not likely to happen...

I know John made the bodies and electronics. And the head of the neck was his unique design. But I cannot remember if the necks were made by FCS. I know he chose and mounted the tuning hardware. When I knew him, he only had that one body style. I don't remember his calling it Concord, but...

No, sorry. John died in 2014. Here's his obit... John Herbert Saunders Obituary (1954 - 2014) Mercury News

Hi. Just joined TalkBass. I know a bunch about this bass. John Saunders and I were friends and classmates at Cal Poly University, Pomona CA, in the late 70's & early 80's. I lost track of John after we both graduated and I moved away in '81. John had a house in Upland CA, where he converted...