Show Your Pandemic Mods

[Deleted member 365158]

soo many mods!! some of these started pre Pandemic but got worked on during.
I took a dean 5 string and added another pickup but I didn't like the locations so I modded it again.

I bought an Ammoon jazz bass and have been through several mods through the year, full re shape and finish with 2 hum buckers and a 5 way switch, then de fret, then better pickups and toggle switches.

I found a 32" scale Ibanez roadster body ( I thought it was full scale when I bought it). got a new neck and shaped the headstock, added EMG Geezers and made a new pick guard and custom neck plate. (Graphic help by our own @JRA)

Glarry got a make over as well, and another Ibanez roadster got some new pickups and an SR PJ got a Humbucker

 

[PaulCISSA]

No COVID mods for me. When my state locked down and the work dried up,, I sold a couple of basses, an amp and a bunch of accessories, refinished my studio, bought an expensive competition shotgun and drove around the east coast shooting competitive trap. Why not.

The phone began to ring again last week and I've got three offers for audition with one that's very promising. Back at it again soon, which could require mods. Here's to hoping.

 

[Bass Viking]

I swapped the pickups on my Warmoth parts bass from Seymour Duncan Basslines to Aguilar. I also changed the hardware from gold to black using lighter parts. I changed the wiring harness to a volume/blend/tone setup as I find this easier to use. I've included the old parts in the photo.

 

[Bass Viking]

I also bought a Warmoth roasted maple neck/rosewood fretboard for a Squier body I had lying around. It sounds great!

 

[TK4261]

Gutted a Squier 28.6" mini P bass and replaced everything. Only used the Body and Neck...Great little couch Bass

 

[Jerry Catanescu]

Does it have to be a bass mod? Asking because I modded my girlfriend using FaceApp. Funny that the more I look at it, the more I'm starting to convince myself that it really happened:

 

[DoctorZee]

Not much to show in a photo, but I had a series/parallel switch installed on my Jazz Bass, and I’m loving it! Taking it to rehearsal this weekend to see if it can overtake my PJ as my #1 for this band.

 

[PDXbassdad]

I had my Colin Warling bass mod’d to replace the existing p-bass and sidewinder pickups with two SD quarter pounders and a wengewood pickup surround. It sounds amazing now. The pickup ring gives some nice spots to anchor my thumb too.

 

[Williethump]

At a flea market for $22 usd I bought this well used (up) mid-90s Korean Peavey Milestone II P-base clone. It had suffered either a corrosive liquid spill or a localized heating incident. Covered up by several spray can loads of thick, runny silver rustolium. After I relic-ed off a few layers of goo I found hidden folk art. I made a PG out of an old uke and sprayed it and the neck plate and rusty bridge with dark seafoam high temp engine block paint. Even after such a hard life the Milestone II sounds good. Except the frets are worn down. So it is wall art until I learn to defretify it.

 

[wraub]

No mods on the basses, but I did get a guitar (which I did swap pickups on), a xylophone, an amp for the guitar, a pedalboard, and a full drumset.
Mainly been modding rooms to make space.

 

[Deleted member 365158]

No mods on the basses, but I did get a guitar (which I did swap pickups on), a xylophone, an amp for the guitar, a pedalboard, and a full drumset.
Mainly been modding rooms to make space.

At least show a pic of the xylophone!!

 

[lermgalieu]

My mods are invisible, so I won't post pics. I put a ToneStyler in my MIA P and I put the original bridge back on my MIM P.

 

[Bobbadfinger]

Not a hell of a mod, but I never bonded with the cheap acrylic pickguard. Besides everybody knows tort sounds better.
Planning on changing concentric knobs for just 1vol/1tone, both pickups series.

 

[mouthmw]

@mouthmw Japanese G&L? I've never seen such a thing!

Yeah it's a Japanese L-2000 Tribute. Made sometime in the 90s (late-ish 90s or so). I think they moved to Korea after that, and after that Indonesia.

 

[funkinbottom]

I mod this 4 string 34" scale generic P bass a friend of mines girlfriend found in a garbage can (literally) while on a walk in San Francisco, and mod it to a 5 string 32" scale P/J.



Also built the white bass from scratch. (I built blue one mid 2019)

 

[DingwallDingus]

Dingwall Combustion modified to NG2 spec plus all black hardware and Nordstrand FD3 pickups. This finish is pretty crazy and I swear the bass sounds overall better but it could be placebo. The original matte black finish started flaking pretty bad after 5 years.

 

[iiipopes]

Changed the bridge to a 4-saddle, changed the pickup to a humbucker, and added a mute to my Squier Tele VM bass:

 

[Methaneman]

Not only was it a big time for buying guitars and basses during the pandemic, but it was also a pretty big time for modding, or so industry reports lead me to believe. I am no different. I made a handful of mods right before the pandemic so they don't count, but I'll show you what all I did during the pandemic.

First up is my highly modded 76 Precision body with an 83 neck. Has been many colors but was stripped with one coat of tung oil since the 90's. Developed a thing for black over the years, resented it wasn't black but didn't want to cover up the awesome ash woodgrain, so I ebonized it myself with wood dye, wood stain, and gunstock oil. Also replaced the Schaller bridge I had on it since 83 with a bent plate and added a Hipshot Xtender but that was before the pandemic.

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Next up, I tried my hand at cerusing. My 1991 Guitar Factory bass was also stripped of its finish, so it had to become black. And since the body wood was mahogany, there was a whole lot of grain I could fill, so I filled it and left the maple all black:

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Changed the tolex on my V4B to match the cabs. Wasn't hard to do.
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Then I didn't do anything for a long time till I bought a Yamaha BB235 on a whim a couple months ago. Swore I'd never get another 5 string but just decided one night to pick up a cheap PJ 5 just to have. Black and white...looked pretty cool, plays and sounds pretty amazing for a budget bass:

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I just decided the tuxedo look isn't for me. I priced new pickguards...no thanks. So I went digging for a couple cans of Rust Oleum, found a gold and a copper. Tried the copper first and stuck with it:

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Still has a mod or two to go, though it'll be a while. Got a Duncan CS SPB-1 for a 5 coming in a few weeks. Might keep the J pickup but I do like humbuckers, so I might replace it with a Duncan Apollo. But it's going to be on backorder for a while so I have a lot of time to decide.

OK, whaddaya got?

 

[WG Plum]

Put some Aggies in my Vintera P.

 

[Wood and Wire]

The world's least comfortable bike saddle.