I got on eBay and this popped up as newly listed for $99+shipping, I clicked BIN without really even looking at it as I didn't want to miss it, total investment shipped=$128.97.
I must love punishment because this is HAGGARD. The obvious issues is it is missing 3 of its original tuners, only the E tuner is still there and the A tuner is obviously not original. The J pickup is totally gone and the knobs are missing all 3 F caps and 2 of the 3 rubber grips. Then there is the whole cosmetic issues. The neck frankly doesnt look to bad but the photos arent the greatest. The body looks grungy, especially by the upper horn. Not sure what is dirt, dust and grime and whats wear chips and scratches. Posted a page back is my super clean red Jazz Special, this one looks like it came out of a dumpster compared to it.
Really what will happen I dont know, I bought it without knowing if the truss works, if the frets are still useable, I don't know if extra holes are drilled for more tuners and I dont know if the remaining electronics work. First thing will be string up a E string and test the electronics, I will use them after cleaning them all if there working, also hopefully the P pickup is alive. I will test the truss and see how it responds. If that's all good I will make it into a players bass, if the neck is toast though I will sell the parts off and recoup my $. It was worth a gamble.
Right now the plan is to clean and try to use as much of the original parts . The tuners will be hard finding original ones and hipshots will cost almost what I paid for the whole bass, if no extra tuner holes have been drilled I dont want to add any. Older geddy tuners are drop in replacements so there is a possibility that since the bridge looks shot and that it needs new tuners and knobs that maybe I can go over to chrome hardware and use geddy tuners. I did hear these bridges are brass though, it looks like brass under the paint in these photos, I may take that whole nasty bridge apart and try to polish it to a total brass finish if thats what it is, may turn out looking cool. If the original P pickup works I will likely get a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound J pickup and metal flat top knobs in either black or chrome depending on the hardware color. I want to keep the whole cost to $300 or I might as well have just bought a better condition one, but saving one of my favorite series of basses seems cool. Since its not a super collectors bass I wont cringe if the paint on the body is so bad that I need to repaint it but with lots of cleaning and buffing I maybe able to make that finish look good enough I think it has a lot of sticker residue and dust making it look worse then it is, but so long as the truss works
this baby will live again, hard to imagine based on its current poor state.
If anyone has original parts to this they would sell let me know, I dot want to buy original parts your bass may need but if any spares are around.
