Modded Basses

[tabdog]

My black Peavey Fury. Even the fretboard is
black.

I installed a B&G Company Passive F split pole
pup, black tuners, high mass black bridge and
black knobs, as well as new pots and wiring,

I know what you are gonna say.

But, I like the white pickguard,

Tabdog

 

[tabdog]

Now, this is one very nice P bass.

It is a VM soft maple P bass body with a licensed by
Fender Mighty Mite model MM2908 jazz bass neck.

Tabdog

 

[Definitely]

My black Peavey Fury. Even the fretboard is
black.

I installed a B&G Company Passive F split pole
pup, black tuners, high mass black bridge and
black knobs, as well as new pots and wiring,

I know what you are gonna say.

But, I like the white pickguard,

Tabdog

paint the pg lime green

 

[tabdog]

paint the pg lime green

Now that sounds rad. Good idea,

Tabdog

 

[Definitely]

I was thinking of refinishing mine to lime green with matching headstock and painting the pg black and black fretboard

 

[screaminglucy]

here's my gretsch:
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Filtertron pickups, 3 way switch, musicmaster bridge

 

[screaminglucy]

Now, this is one very nice P bass.

It is a VM soft maple P bass body with a licensed by
Fender Mighty Mite model MM2908 jazz bass neck.

Tabdog

i love this

 

[Phalex]

I get thirsty at practice on occasion, so I added a bottle opener to my Hoppus P. (It has a SB-4000 neck as well.)

 

[BarkerBass]

this started as a MIM deluxe with a rosewood neck,

The neck was swapped for squier VM neck and the electronics were modded heavily to be V/V/T and an active 3 band eq with push/pull active/passive and series/parallel switches on the volume and tone pots.

The neck pickup was swapped for a Pbass pickup with a handmade pickguard and ramp fitted.

It's now looks like this:

Jazz pickups back in, original pickguard replaced and larger ramp fitted.

My Yamaha 5 string:

Original preamp replaced with John East Pro 5 knob deluxe U retro preamp, a switch for selecting the neck/both/bridge jazz pickups and another for series/parallel MM pickups switching and these fed to either side of the blend pot.

Bartolini MMC Musicman pickup fitted between the two stock jazz pickups and a ramp cap fitted over the top.

These are my 2 main modded basses

 

[Achtane]

Franken-Hondo-P:

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The P is a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound.
Twin mudbuckers. Why? WHY NOT
Rickenbacker 4001 bridge (copy)
Two volumes to the jack.
The stupid "Wagoneer" logo and seatbelt are both from my first vehicle, which was more of a beater than my bass. Truly terrifying to take it up to highway speeds.
The only reason that the bridge...bucker is not falling out is because I literally strapped it to the body -- two screws/washers on either side of the pickup hold black wires taut across it
And the "pickup ring" was crudely fashioned from the lid of a CD storage box. Speaking of crude, I obviously chiseled out the pickup cavities and the little recession required for the bridge.
Tuned to C standard because the only spare strings I have are a HARDCORE DROP TOONAN ROTOSOUND set. The B sucks, so it became a C.

The Ric bridge is nice because the tighter string spacing keeps it just inside the mudbuckers' field. I should be getting another pickup cover one of these days too, so that'll solve the..."issues"?

Fender Jaguar Bass, formerly Hot Rod Red:
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Additional pickup is a Rickenbacker HB2. The others are Dimarzio Model Js. Took me forever to refinish but I'm so glad I kept going! The active/passive switch is now series/parallel on the HB2 -- the other 3 are on/offs.
BEAD tuned with Circle K Balanced .150 .112 .082 .061

 

[Wannaflea]

Those Model J's are damn good arent they? Any sound clips of that jag? I'd love to hear them with that Rick pup. I've always loved green on black and I love how you can see the grain too

Tabdog: that Peavey is teh sex!

 

[Barkless Dog]

This - only used the neck

To this

Features rear mounted dummy noise cancelling single coil pickup, varitone & Kahler.

 

[Barkless Dog]

This - bought a 69 slot head corpse with new neck grafted on.

To this-

Added a Rio Grande Pitbull pickup, Big D varitone, Push Pull coil splitter for the Pitbull. Sperzel light wieght locking tuners

 

[Barkless Dog]

78 Gibson RD Artist-
Kahler & Gizmotron (no longer functional)

 

[Wannaflea]

What is that Gizmotron man?!


EDIT: The magical 'google' helped me.

 

[Plake]

This - bought a 69 slot head corpse with new neck grafted on.

To this-

Added a Rio Grande Pitbull pickup, Big D varitone, Push Pull coil splitter for the Pitbull. Sperzel light wieght locking tuners

Awesome.

 

[bassbrad]

This - only used the neck

To this

Features rear mounted dummy noise cancelling single coil pickup, varitone & Kahler.

LOve the use of G-3 pickups

 

[bassbrad]

Franken-Hondo-P:

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The P is a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound.
Twin mudbuckers. Why? WHY NOT
Rickenbacker 4001 bridge (copy)
Two volumes to the jack.
The stupid "Wagoneer" logo and seatbelt are both from my first vehicle, which was more of a beater than my bass. Truly terrifying to take it up to highway speeds.
The only reason that the bridge...bucker is not falling out is because I literally strapped it to the body -- two screws/washers on either side of the pickup hold black wires taut across it
And the "pickup ring" was crudely fashioned from the lid of a CD storage box. Speaking of crude, I obviously chiseled out the pickup cavities and the little recession required for the bridge.
Tuned to C standard because the only spare strings I have are a HARDCORE DROP TOONAN ROTOSOUND set. The B sucks, so it became a C.

The Ric bridge is nice because the tighter string spacing keeps it just inside the mudbuckers' field. I should be getting another pickup cover one of these days too, so that'll solve the..."issues"?

Truly a Franken Beast of a Bass

 

[deepdown]

To this:
Bartolinis, Aguilar OBP1, leather pick-guard, 8.5 lbs. Not in photo: pick-up rail/ thumb-rest, Ringo knobs to match tiger eye finish.

 

[Dadagoboi]

I had 2 of these Ibanez GIO type basses. Turned one into this one on the right

which became this

which eventually became this