NBD, Now what do I do!

Well curiosity got the best of me.

I saw a thread about these $56 Precision style bass guitars and I figured, what the heck! My intention was to attempt a Larry Hartke Torched Finish on it. Like this, only in white.

As is, the bass plays & sounds pretty good. Especially for $56. No fret sprout, chunky P neck. Lots of neck dive because the bass only weighs 6.7 pounds.

So, has anyone out there attempted a torch finish? I figured after, I may put some ultralight tuners to help with the neck dive. Definitely going to paint the headstock white.

Thoughts?

 

The bottom split pickup fell inside the bass during shipping. There was no foam under the pickups. Pickup is glued to the cover. The glue let go. So I just put foam under it and screwed it back in. Now it's fine.

 

That's what I was wondering. Larry Hartke doesn't look like he clear-coats over the burning. I was thinking of doing that.

 

No.

Exquisite Burning Fire Style Electric Bass Guitar | Wish

 

Before left, after right.
Haven't torched anything yet. Painted the headstock to match along with my last name on the headstock. Took out the crappy pickups and put in a set of classic vibe Squire pickups I had laying around. Much better than the stocks. Threw a set of EB Super Slinkys on too.

Very playable bass right now. Action is a touch high, but I'll work on that another day.

 

Now

 

It's more like this.
Oh Yeah!

 

It's gotta be 2 pieces of plywood laminated to a styrofoam core. It weighs 6.7 pounds!

 

I gotta say, it's imminently gigable.

I'm done bringing expensive bass guitars out to bars. In between sets last week some drunk was dancing around on stage with my microphone when I came back from the bathroom. They almost fell onto my bass on the stand next to my amp.

If that happens again, I will gladly smash this bass over their head.