show off your frankenbasses

1st project
I cut the body out, had a local guy do the rest- spent about $1500 in vintage parts & labor





Next was an EBO project bass I added a pickup & varitone and refinnined it. Spent about $400 total.



Blueshawk bass. I used a donated Ripper neck and built the body & finished it myself. Payed to have it wired & refretted though. Cost about $600 + in the end
Photochop I did first

bought plans for the guitar, modified them for a bass

Made the body and set the ripper neck I removed

had lots of crazy contours not in the plans, plus a Dummy pickup mounted in the rear

dyed it

Finished

 

BArkless dog, those are badass!

 

Awesome!

 

Definately up a notch from parts-bass assembly, especially the "Blueshawk".
Awesome body, finish and binding.

 

A recent one:

Squender Mustonco: Squier Bronco body, covered Bronco pickguard, EMG Stat pickup, Mustang neck, Hipshot Ultralight tuners, Squier Musicmaster 4 saddle bridge...

 

Squier Fretless Jazz Neck on a Johnson Jazz Body

May not seem like much of a stretch but it took quite a bit to make it work and look "normal".

 

I wanted a Modulus-necked P bass but couldn't find one. So I picked up VJ and cannibalized the neck. Sold the VJ body on Ebay and bought a MIJ Fender body, Fralins, and miscellaneous other parts and slapped together this Modulus VP (Vintage Precision)

 

This has been done before, but what the hell - The Strangeberger™:



Only original parts left are the body and the bridge.

 

Funny but my favorite is the Van Halen basses!
Love your non reverse bird as well

 

That is amazing!

 

Thanks, the back contours are really complex because the body tapers to the neck heel, then there is a tummy contour that the lowest point is not in the center of the contour. I have a friend who owns the guitar and had him send me shots of it. i had to be careful not to go too low into the chambered body, plus not interfere with the rear Dummy cavity. I used my neighbor's big hand held belt sander, I clamped the body to a bench on our deck and went at it. Worked great



His guitar


The hardest part was figuring out the really complicated switch. The switch has two wafers with three positions of nine contacts in each position that overlap with other positions





From an interview with the designer of the switching system-

I made pickup rings from ABS to the same size as Soapbar pickups.
Bought the new/ old stock Bill Lawrence Gibson G-3 pickups from GreatDealz / Ebay, had Lindy Fralin Demagnetize one for the dummy.

A wonderful friend gave me the Ripper Husk when I went on a family vacation to London. I hand carried it back.

The Bass is great, it works wonderfully with effects and the Kahler due to the Single coils and the Big D Varitone. Produces a very clean horn like sound with effects.

 

Heyyyyyyyyy. nice job on that bass !! congrats....you brought it to life once again...."ITS ALIVE.....ITS ALIVE" !!!




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Another one of mine:

Paulownia body, 1 Bartolini pickup, Fender RI Jazz neck, pickguard, bridge, and control plate, Hipshot Ultralight tuners, '70s Fender neckplate.