Guys!
I just bought a unique bass from ebay. It's banged up a bit but it was a prototype and fairly rare. It is the Rudy Sarzo Washburn Slammer!!!
One sad thing I noticed when I got it...the neck pocket was damaged at the bottom.
There were a bunch of little shims included (it was shipped with the neck off) which are used to get the neck pitch right. They are needed because the bridge is down as low as it'll go, the neck bow is perfect but the action is still a little high. If the shims weren't there, the action would be extremely high.
One of the shims ended up in the wrong place obviously and the previous owner damaged the bottom of the neck pocket and broke the wood next to the neck pickup and cracked the heavy finish. Then, a piece of plastic was glued (type of glue, unknown) over the damage.
As you can see, the finish is HEAVY and unique. I'd like to have the neck seated properly without using the shims and repair the wood and finish at the bottom of the pocket.
Is this very difficult to fix for one of you luthier-types?
It looks like a neck-pitch issue and a broken wood / repair poly finish issue.
(If it's astronomically expensive to fix, I'll just play it until the frets are gone then restore it completely years from now when I retire!!!
Any info or advice would be welcome. Thanks.
FYI: This is what a typical production model looks like. You can see the pickup locations are different and the edges are rounded off the body a little. I seem to have gotten one of the first ones made so I want to keep it regardless.
I just bought a unique bass from ebay. It's banged up a bit but it was a prototype and fairly rare. It is the Rudy Sarzo Washburn Slammer!!!
One sad thing I noticed when I got it...the neck pocket was damaged at the bottom.
There were a bunch of little shims included (it was shipped with the neck off) which are used to get the neck pitch right. They are needed because the bridge is down as low as it'll go, the neck bow is perfect but the action is still a little high. If the shims weren't there, the action would be extremely high.One of the shims ended up in the wrong place obviously and the previous owner damaged the bottom of the neck pocket and broke the wood next to the neck pickup and cracked the heavy finish. Then, a piece of plastic was glued (type of glue, unknown) over the damage.
As you can see, the finish is HEAVY and unique. I'd like to have the neck seated properly without using the shims and repair the wood and finish at the bottom of the pocket.
Is this very difficult to fix for one of you luthier-types?
It looks like a neck-pitch issue and a broken wood / repair poly finish issue.(If it's astronomically expensive to fix, I'll just play it until the frets are gone then restore it completely years from now when I retire!!!
Any info or advice would be welcome. Thanks.
FYI: This is what a typical production model looks like. You can see the pickup locations are different and the edges are rounded off the body a little. I seem to have gotten one of the first ones made so I want to keep it regardless.
