so I am new here and only 16 and i got a 2001 Mark Hoppus bass off ebay last year for $275 it wasnt in the best condition and some of he paint (not much) had come off and the neck wasnt intonated well, and there is the fact I like j bass necks more than p bass necks. so i decided i might as well refinish it in the color that I actually wanted. Ever since I had seen Blink-182 playing aol sessions with a grafitti yellow bass i had wanted one( his plaid bass is also really cool).
here is what it looked like before anything
then i took the neck off and sold it and stripped the body with a heat gun. I wanted this bass to be pretty unique so i routed the body out for reverse pick ups so that i could play either reversed p bass pickups or normally oriented. i then got a lefty rosewood allparts neck becasue i saw that the bassist from jimmy eat world had a reversed neck and i thought it was cool.
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then I cleaned it, filled the grain( from guitar reranch), and put sanding sealer( deft lacquer sanding sealer off amazon on and primed( w/nitro aerosol from reranch) it.then for the back of the nec i used neck amber from ohio valley nitro and tv yellow from them for the color coat. i made a paintbooth out of pvc in my back yard and painted it. I put one coat of yellow on and then clear coated, then i did 2 coats of neck amber and after taking out some dust and respraying some i put 6 clear coats on. Then i got fingerboard dye from stew mac and dyed the figerboard black to make it look like ebony. and that is where it is now.
so my luthier who has sort of guided me on this project as well as helped set up my guitars and such says that i should sand down the clear now and then do another frew layers then wait a week or so then sand that down and do it again then buff it.
here is what it looked like before anything
then i took the neck off and sold it and stripped the body with a heat gun. I wanted this bass to be pretty unique so i routed the body out for reverse pick ups so that i could play either reversed p bass pickups or normally oriented. i then got a lefty rosewood allparts neck becasue i saw that the bassist from jimmy eat world had a reversed neck and i thought it was cool.
picture unfinished
then I cleaned it, filled the grain( from guitar reranch), and put sanding sealer( deft lacquer sanding sealer off amazon on and primed( w/nitro aerosol from reranch) it.then for the back of the nec i used neck amber from ohio valley nitro and tv yellow from them for the color coat. i made a paintbooth out of pvc in my back yard and painted it. I put one coat of yellow on and then clear coated, then i did 2 coats of neck amber and after taking out some dust and respraying some i put 6 clear coats on. Then i got fingerboard dye from stew mac and dyed the figerboard black to make it look like ebony. and that is where it is now.
so my luthier who has sort of guided me on this project as well as helped set up my guitars and such says that i should sand down the clear now and then do another frew layers then wait a week or so then sand that down and do it again then buff it.
