Bass with guitar body

[debassr]

I made a tele bass for my girlfriend's daughter last year. I used a standard telecaster body pickups and all. I modded the stock bridge, and added a mustang bridge at the correct scale length. I used a 30" scale bass neck. I was surprised at how good it sounded and played.

It would be tough to use a full scale neck. It's going to be neck heavy, and the bridge would be really close to the edge of the body. The neck pocket won't accept a bass neck so you will have to route it to fit. It's not impossible, but it can be done. I'd surf ebay for a bass body instead. You should be able to find plenty there.

^^^ That's incredibly hawt. I wish Fender would make a production model exactly like it with a short scale blocked neck just like yours and a tele style headstock. I'd use a Dano lipstick pup at the neck and a Fralin vintage single coil or Dark star pup at the bridge.

Also to the OP - do you know about warmoth.com?

 

[rsx667]

I Know about warmoth.com ,and i can find almost anything i want from there..... but i leave in greece so it's kind of difficult to order from there....I am searchin from ebay

 

[ThaLowEndTheory]

How did these basses sound with the guitar pickups?

The one I made sounded great using the guitar pickups. That was the one thing I was worried about, but they worked perfectly.

 

[bunny10]

The hard part would be finding the neck. If Rondo starts selling them again it wouldn't be to hard. I assemble and finish for fun. It would depend on if you wanted it finished and all, or just assembled on a prefinished body. It's not hard, and I'm not a pro so I wouldn't charge much. I could easily talk you through it if you wanted to do it on your own. I've wanted to build myself one since I made the first one.

Oh and to correct myself, it was a Musicmaster bridge. I had to mod it for top loading, but that wasn't bad at all.

I have an SX 30" p bass that has a maple neck. It is just sitting around and I want to get rid of it. Never used. I would sell it very cheap, so you could use just the neck. PM me if you are interested in it.