anthonyfury
Newbie
- Messages
- 14
Bolted together sometime in 1996, this puppy saw hard "one-and-only" action until approx. 2012, when I decommissioned it for a neckplate which would not stay tight. Stage antics, pratfalls, real falls, general drunken mayhem, college (but I repeat myself), sound guys booting it completely off stage (twice!), and probably 2 cumulative gallons of beer dumped on it did not help the neck joint. However, it always stayed in one piece and never died in a performance.
This is the best "before" pic I could find. There were less pixels in the 90s. I tried making a "Matt Sharp" bass (put a pin here) and didn't really succeed, but anyway, specs were:
•Maple / Rosewood Tele, no finish, 1 11/16" nut, no overhang (which I now regret not getting), 6100 Jumbos, and dad cut the brass nut for me. Remember, abalone dots, steel bars and a fat contour were all that existed back then.
•Alder J-body from the "day old bread" sheet that Warmoth used to snail-mail out - $65 whole bucks + some black paint at the Warmoth factory put me in business for a couple hundred bucks
•Seymour Duncan AJJ-1s with the dipswitches, ha ha
•Leftover mid-70s Fender tuners from my dad's old Precision (found in a paper bag when he switched to Schaller M4Ss)
•WD solid red pickguard, when I finally abandoned a disappointing search for a sweet red tort
•An $18 bridge, neckplate, and those chrome-dome knobs, all from the Warmoth accessory shop
•Dunlop straplocks which, after slight modification, are still working and in the bass today
The re-vamp, which I started in 2021 and has gone "steady by jerks" now includes a stainless neckplate and 6x 1/4-20" brass inserts and grade 8 flathead socket head cap screws. The neck is tight now!!! (notice the wear marks of the old squishy 4 bolt plate).
Improvements include:
•Bill Lawrence staggered pole J pickups - never going back to actives again ever!!
•Stack knobs with 500K tone pots - so awesome!
•Series/kill/parallel switch (Series is not really my thing, but it's there)
•Gotoh 70's Elephant ears + bridge (dad's old P tuners are too valuable for heavy duty)
•A $10 StewMac red pearl-WBW pickguard which is also somehow the best fitting pickguard ever
•Recessed Dunlop straplocks (turned the body-facing flanges down and countersunk the body to cover up the original damage when they loosened)
Neck is still laserbeam straight!! Thanks Warmoth - it's back in business as my “one” (though I can now afford more than one bass, so not “only”) again.
This is the best "before" pic I could find. There were less pixels in the 90s. I tried making a "Matt Sharp" bass (put a pin here) and didn't really succeed, but anyway, specs were:
•Maple / Rosewood Tele, no finish, 1 11/16" nut, no overhang (which I now regret not getting), 6100 Jumbos, and dad cut the brass nut for me. Remember, abalone dots, steel bars and a fat contour were all that existed back then.
•Alder J-body from the "day old bread" sheet that Warmoth used to snail-mail out - $65 whole bucks + some black paint at the Warmoth factory put me in business for a couple hundred bucks
•Seymour Duncan AJJ-1s with the dipswitches, ha ha
•Leftover mid-70s Fender tuners from my dad's old Precision (found in a paper bag when he switched to Schaller M4Ss)
•WD solid red pickguard, when I finally abandoned a disappointing search for a sweet red tort
•An $18 bridge, neckplate, and those chrome-dome knobs, all from the Warmoth accessory shop
•Dunlop straplocks which, after slight modification, are still working and in the bass today
The re-vamp, which I started in 2021 and has gone "steady by jerks" now includes a stainless neckplate and 6x 1/4-20" brass inserts and grade 8 flathead socket head cap screws. The neck is tight now!!! (notice the wear marks of the old squishy 4 bolt plate).
Improvements include:
•Bill Lawrence staggered pole J pickups - never going back to actives again ever!!
•Stack knobs with 500K tone pots - so awesome!
•Series/kill/parallel switch (Series is not really my thing, but it's there)
•Gotoh 70's Elephant ears + bridge (dad's old P tuners are too valuable for heavy duty)
•A $10 StewMac red pearl-WBW pickguard which is also somehow the best fitting pickguard ever
•Recessed Dunlop straplocks (turned the body-facing flanges down and countersunk the body to cover up the original damage when they loosened)
Neck is still laserbeam straight!! Thanks Warmoth - it's back in business as my “one” (though I can now afford more than one bass, so not “only”) again.
Last edited:
