my new bass!

I mention it before, I was working on a P bass project. It's now finished! I got it back yesterday. It started as a '57 reedition P bass made in '82. I made a 5 string a few years ago.
It sounded great but the B string was really poor. So i decided to put it back to 4 strings.
Here's a "before" picture:



Since I drilled the neck for a new tuning key and I couldn't get use to the 1.75" neck, I bought a jazz bass neck from warmoth. P bass sound with a J bass neck, best combination ever!

I had gold harware here doing nothing and also a J bass pick up from a previous bass.

I put them all together and i had the bass painted red. I wanted a wine red but he probably didn't remember and made dakota red. I love it anyway. I think it turn out great. What do you all think?

 

by the way, the finish and assembling was done by Sake Stevenson at stevenson guitars

 

It pay as good as any good bass out there. The sound is was you expect from a good P bass, round and fat (I play with the tone all the way off). If I want a more modern sound i can open the tone and the J pick up or use the Ken Lawrence.
With that bass i wanted a warmer sound, and i get it.

 

Yes, It is sold, I will miss it a lot.
On the good side, Len (the buyer) is a great guy and he is a real fan of Nicholas Tung work.

 

Thank you Mark.

and yes it took a while!!But it worth it.