Geo - I just love all the hidden gems to put in your builds!
It takes a very unique artistic talent to create something that looks so attractive from a distance and then gets even more exciting as you start to see the details up close. From 20 feet out that Saundersbird looks stunning, familiar and unique at the same time. The pickguard material and the mirror control plate, such original touches. Then as you look closer, the finger ramp between the pickups, brilliant player focused add. And the chrome bridge saddles in the black bridge that break up what would otherwise be a sea of black running down the center block. The use of black knob rings and strap locks to tie into the bridge body while using chrome tuners to tie into the mirror control plate. And all signed off with a custom and very 1960’s cool signature neck plate. Looks like you even found a creative way to stuff that preamp in a shallow Tbird control cavity utilizing alternating black/white materials to raise the control cavity cover.
Nicely done!
Thanks! Sharp eye G - this bass was a ongoing process before ending up like it is. Originally I wanted a graphite neck, but the NOS Saunders P neck came up and I pounced on it. $65 - made in the newly initiated FCS in the late '80s, commissioned by Saunders - an independent who launched a company making basses but failed to pull it off. I tried to buy another later but was outbid.
