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Show your White Basses!

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#21
Some seriously nice basses here!

I used to have this NS-2A, but sold it a while back. Totally regretting it:

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Spector NS-2JA-R

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I used to have this Fender JB-62 as well:

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Currently have this Fender JB-66:

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devinp17 said:
So is that the body of an Epiphone T-Bird IV Classic? Looks amazing with the maple fingerboard!
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This is the Epiphone T-bird IV. I picked it up used for $160. I installed a Lefty Warmouth Jazz neck with a right handed nut. Hipshot lic. Ultralight tuners.

I finished it in Shellac and has a nice satiny vibe. I made a jig for and routed the neck pocket. I also had to route the pocket 5/8" further towards the bridge to achieve proper intonation. Because the truss-rod adjusts at the heel, I routed a trough to accommodate the hex wrench without needing to remove the neck.
I also inlaid side markers because I'm playing it right-handed.

The finish isn't what I had planned on. My original thought was to strip the poly and do a white pickle finish. Poly can be removed with a heatgun but I didn't count on the mahogany being a 1/32" veneer. This was a total NOOB mistake. Not only did the poly start to pop off but I started getting blister like bumps which was the glue softening and the veneer starting to lift. I ended up cutting out the defects with a utility knife and filling the divots with bondo. Like I mentioned I had planned to do a white pickle finish. I built my wife a nightstand once and primed it with pigmented shellac when I asked my wife to decide on a color, she said that she liked it the way its was, a white pickled look . On the bass I ended up roughing up the poly and priming it with pigmented shellac and using crystal clear shellac for a top-coat. Clear shellac has a slight tint to it and as I built up the clear coats, the bass started to pickup a mellow yellow glow, like a vintage Olympic White.

More pics,

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#35
My Cort Steinberger copy.

Ugly as sin, sounds awesome!
Was sitting in a corner for 20+ years, with a bad pot and jack (someone installed active EMG p'ups and messed up the pot and jack). I forgot I had this until a few months ago. Had a tech friend replace the bad bits.
Now it sounds great! I use it as my practice and travel bass.

 

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