Post your modded/parts basses!

[Turtle71]

Started out with some presumably no-name P-bass body..

And, after a TON of Fender parts, including a MIA Special Neck, I ended up with this

 

[iiipopes]

http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/different-custom-p-style-bass-755914/

 

[rstellar13]

I just kinda painted my bass
http://s1325.photobucket.com/user/ricky_stellar/library/Fender 94 p-bass

 

[DanBass81]

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[T-34]

My parts basses!


Noname body, MIM fender Precision neck, parts of different makes and vintages, Squier Telebass pickup...

Aftermarket ash body I've painted black, "Hohner" fretless neck, Stewmac bridge and tuners.

 

[BillyB_from_LZ]

My parts basses!


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That is sweet!

 

[Rip Topaz]

I hate the neck on this one so it doesn't get played a lot. May spring for a MIM Fender neck for it at some point.

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[T-34]

Nice.

 

[madjazzbass]

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MAN! That Thunderbird and that P-Bass below it are Friggin AMAZING!! ... I've never in my life ever played a Gibson Thunderbird Bass; That one is Awesome!!

 

[madjazzbass]

It's an old thread, but I'll gladly start it up again with my modded 'JAZZCISION BASS'

 

[madjazzbass]

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Is that P-Bass curly maple?

 

[Ric5]

Is that P-Bass curly maple?

The T-bird body is a flame maple veneer over alder

This one is quilted maple over alder

 

[madjazzbass]

The T-bird body is a flame maple veneer over alder

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This one is quilted maple over alder

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Ahh Quilted! Thanks; THAT will be my next build ... with matching headstock

 

[JIO]

Before : mid 60's Teisco Del Rey (short scale) mahogany body that someone stripped with a garden tool and did a (sad) DIY stained finish on.

after: 34" scale Teiscobird Teiscobird project

 

[jaybones]

Here's a modded bass.

Squier Affinity what I changed the pup to a Seymour Duncan Quarter Pound, installed an MIA red tortoise PG, rosewood thumb rest and La Bella tapewound strings.

This is my partsbass.

GFS royal pawlonia sunburst body (I'd call it a clown or red burst), MM maple neck, Fender and misc. HW, Fender 3 ply white PG, now have 18V Bartolini system with concentric knob pots so I didn't have to figure out how/where to mount the fourth.

 

[madjazzbass]

Before : mid 60's Teisco Del Rey (short scale) mahogany body that someone stripped with a garden tool and did a (sad) DIY stained finish on.
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after: 34" scale Teiscobird Teiscobird project
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Wow! Great Job

 

[jonnybass1]

I modded a Squier Bronco Bass. I really don’t like the hum so I changed the pickup and colour a bit. I used a Fender Noiseless Telecaster pickup. I am thinking I might change it to a standard noiseless Jazz bass pickup of some type.

 

[eastcoasteddie]

Basic Squier Affinity JV

Then came the Carvin HB bridge pickup and VMJV neck

The Affinity neck has been defretted:

Together with my VMJV (which has upgrades pickups and preamp)

Both also have high-mass bridges and SD Blackout preamps.

Then there’s the Dean Sledgehammer 5, swapped the original no-name pickup with a Carvin HB Wide, then added a 2nd one for good measure. Both pickups are switchable independently from Series/Neck Coil/Bridge Coil. Preamp is miraculously stock...it fit this bass best.

Finally, my ‘97 L2500. I had a Pensa Preamp installed 6 months after I got the bass, but painstakingly rebuilt and reinstalled the original preamp just this year. At this time, it is all original save for the extra switching I added to the pickups. Added a Push/Pull volume pot to enable Series (bass came wired Parallel/Coil Tap only), and a 4th Minh switch to go from inner to outer coils in Coil Tap.

...and that’s actually all my basses...I guess I just can’t leave good-enough alone...

 

[2saddleslab]

Standard issue Cabronita, modded from this.............

....to this.

 

[FunkBear]

Reworked a Squier Affinity PJ bass. Swapped the pickups for Classic Barts, better pots, shielded control cavity, painted the headstock flat blat, black hipshot tuners, black knobs, and black screws for the pickguard. Good upgrade to both sound and looks.