would you rather...

[jamestown94west]

lets say you have a real nice player grade jazz bass, with lots of nice parts on it. its your go to workhorse.

you also have a custom p bass, a custom fretless p bass, and a squier cv 50s p.

youd like to start collecting parts for a new build, and youve actually decided on two basses.

which one would you pick to start with?

one would be a p bass, strategically covered in stickers, decals, random stuff, etc, in honor of a guitar i had in high school. itll have a p/j pickup set up, passive, completely covered in stickers in the body and pick guard. id like to use a squier cv neck.

the other bass would be a jazzmaster body, pink paint job, black pickguard, all black hard ware, maple/maple neck, with two MM humbuckers, and probably a MM 3 band eq, mounted on a jazz style control plate.

im having a hard time deciding which way to go. the sticker bass will be considerably cheaper to build, which is appealing at the moment, but its also pretty similar to the other 4 basses i alread have.

heres a rendering Ric5 did for me

 

[Sharko]

do the Jazzmaster/jaguar style bass, pretty different from what you've got.

If it was me though, I'd do chrome hardware because a ton of chrome is one of the trademarks of Jaguar guitars and basses

 

[PWRL]

The rendered one in the picture looks like it would be a lot more unique in both form and tone. I say that's the one. It looks like it would be worth it.

 

[funkingroovin]

I'd definitely go for the one nobody else has..like a Pink Jag w/double 'buckers

 

[jamestown94west]

I'm somewhat intimidated by the cost of a decent aftermarket neck. The jag body is a little expensive too. I believe they're about $170 for a bare bones warmoth. I'm trying to start saving now, hopefully by this time next year ill be assembling a new bass.

I agree that the jag would be cool and different. I tend to get overwhelmed sometimes with my builds.

 

[josiah goldfish]

Wait, where does the fretless come in?

 

[jamestown94west]

Wait, where does the fretless come in?

The fretless was one of my holy grail basses, just by chance one was offered to me in trade a few months ago. Its a '78 fender with an original maple fretless neck. The finish was stripped, none of the electronics were original, nor the pick guard. I had it refinished, and I put a few of my own touches on it. Unfortunately there's not much room for a fretless in the band I'm in, so it sits a lot. I'm actually getting ready to use it as a wall decoration in my baby boys room. I play it as much as I can, ill never sell it, I wish I had more use for it right now.