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Part swapping (mod, mod, mod) - A picture story.

darwin-bass

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Mar 29, 2013
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Salem OR
I had two perfectly good basses; One fretted, one fretless. Both are wonderful Warmoth 32" scale lightweight tone-monsters.

The P started with pearl but I changed it to tort.

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p-bass-2.jpg


I picked up a 2x2 wenge neck with blocks for the P. I just love blocks.
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The fretless went from lined to unlined wenge with different pickups.

jb32-maple.jpg
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But I didn't like the looks of the P (too busy) and I prefer the P tone to the J. And I'd like something in burgundy mist. So ... more changes.

Fretless neck goes on the P.
p-3.jpg


Neck with blocks gets married to a new BMM body with pearl to highlight the blocks and to have something without tort!
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Summary: Start with two perfectly good basses, spend money and time and end up with ... two perfectly good basses.

... at least the couch stayed the same :)
 
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