Hello all! I bought this interesting looking fella online thinking I'd have a good project for a drop-B bass. It had a fender-shape and string-through, so that was promising. Finally got it in the mail, took it a part, and unfortunately I didn't see any serial numbers, or identifying marks on the body. Pretty sure this weird grey/blue is an amateur job. Underneath it looks like it was black or natural. Didn't see any screw-holes near the bridge area that would fit a bridge that I know of. The only holes I saw were for this weird bridge with huge honkin brass saddles. The neck was aftermarket. Pickups were well-worn and had no identifying marks, pots were all Mouser with a SAM HWA 24473 cap on the tone. The ground tube going from the pots housing to the bridge was super thin and came of of the screw-holes of the bridge, so that's making me think it's not fender. Also the lack of those weird random pointless 3/4" holes they drill into the body. What is this beast? While it was still put together it sounded great, so I don't regret the purchase. Just real curious. Any help would be much appreciated. I've tried looking blindly at images of fender bass bodies, Kramer, Peavey, and such but I can't figure it out. Thanks!
I dunno but I've bought no - name wall hangers in various stores in town, no serial numbers, no identifiers at all. I would perform maybe pick up swaps, clean up fret ends, other minor adjustments, then pass them on. That would be my guess.
The big brass bridge saddles look like an Epiphone Accu-Bass, but the neck pocket isn’t right for that. Maybe somebody modified it to fit a different neck?
Just looked up the Accu-Bass, that's spot on! Thanks! Looks like they routed out the neck pocket for truss-rod adjustment of a new neck. That makes total sense now. My first Epiphone!
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