I have gotta see if my old friend still has the bass I frankensteined back in the late 1980's. He gave me a fretless Rickenbacker 3001 that was the Worst. Bass. Ever. so I took the neck & bridge from that, bought a Bill Lawrence dual-blade humbucker and a Bartolini 6S (the single coil pickup that replaces the foam mute in a Rick bridge) and then built my own body from Eastern Rock Maple with a 1/4" split cap of paduak.
I'm not much of a woodworker, so the execution was kinda ghetto. The body shape looked like a cross between an original Modulus Quantum 6 (the thru-body 3-pickup version from the early 80's) and a Teisco Del Ray. I gave it back to my friend after I played it for a couple years, and I think he lost it in a divorce settlement decades later, so I don't have pics and may never get any. Sigh...
I'm not much of a woodworker, so the execution was kinda ghetto. The body shape looked like a cross between an original Modulus Quantum 6 (the thru-body 3-pickup version from the early 80's) and a Teisco Del Ray. I gave it back to my friend after I played it for a couple years, and I think he lost it in a divorce settlement decades later, so I don't have pics and may never get any. Sigh...
