Don't really know if anyone is interested in my story. I picked up a weird bass from eBay for very little money. It was from the Ukraine and it is called a Kavkaz 'Bas". Probably dates to about 1978 or so, but since records from the USSR are hard to find, I am just going with it. The bass was not playable when I received it. So I decided to strip off the paint on the neck to sand it smooth and refresh it. Hopefully making it more playable. Well the neck delaminated and the headstock crumbled!. So the bass sat for many years. I bought a Chinese short scale paddle headstock neck and there they sat for about 2 years. The opportunity came up for me to jump into a shop with a CNC lathe, all the needed tools, so off to rebuilding I went. We skimmed the neck pocket about a mm on each side and the neck fit. Then we grabbed a pic of the headstock (the original neck was binned a long time ago) and the CNC cut out a pretty good likeness of the shape and the tuner holes. Now, I am having a 3D nut printed and I put some stain on the neck for a finish. It is coming together pretty nicely. The pickups and everything worked, I just need to put it all back together and set it up so it is playable. Pretty fun restoration. Thanks to my friends at Gateway Technical College for offering a class in guitar repair/building.. Here are a few pic's as I have gone along. Should have some ending pics next week. I have replaced the 5 pin DIN jack with a regular 1/4" barrel jack without any modifications.
