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P/J Jazz bass body.

Black nitrocellulose.

Bare body nothing attached.

Copper sheilding.

The finish is not perfect.

Routed for P/J pickups, x4 pots, rear cavity  and side jack.

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Gotoh Vintage Reverse GB8 Gear Bass Tuners Open Nickel

Code: GB8N

Brand new, never fitted. Complete.

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Parting out now

36 minutes ago, Oldman said:

No head dive then 😎

Def not. 

5 minutes ago, Oldman said:

It looks the Biz, what does it play like?

It’s awesome and feels really light. I think it must be the machine heads. I’m def using them again in future builds. 

11 hours ago, Al Krow said:

Seems a real shame to have to do that! I wonder if you made some sound samples of how the bass sounds in its various settings or a YT clip, if that might generate some more interest?

GLWTS

 

Thanks that is a good idea. I’ll try and do something but I don’t have a great recording set up here. If it helps the sale it will be worth it. 

Looks like I may have to part this bass out. Does anyone want to make an offer for the whole bass before I do?

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Here we have a very nice Might Mite Jazz Bass neck. Bugger all wear on the frets. What you see is what you get.

£80 collected or can post at cost.

Will consider offers on this. 😁

18 hours ago, Bassdude BE said:

If you decide to split it and sell the parts seperately I will gladly take the Hipshot tuners, string tree and Gotoh bridge of your hands!

I did think about parting it out but it’s a lovely bass as it is. I think it would be better to keep it together. 
 

On 04/08/2020 at 18:58, TheGreek said:

Love the flame neck...I'm sure some discerning BCer will be along shortly to take it off your hands.

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Thanks. The neck came alive after stripping and sanding. It really pops.

1 hour ago, Drax said:

Great job making that - looks a beauty GLWTS 

Thanks. 👍😁

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Thanks for all the nice comments. The paint was purchased from Northwest guitars. 
 

I think it looks great but I’m no expert on exact hues. 👍😁

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Just now, TheGreek said:

This would look amazing with an off white scratchplate...

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I have an off white scratchplate and tried it with both. It also looked awesome but I preferred this tort one just a tiny bit more.

4 minutes ago, Bassman666 said:

I'm not a huge p bass guy but that colour combo is perfect 😍

It does look great I agree.

I am selling two bitsa basses that I put together over the last few years. This one is a P bass.

I have over £550 in materials invested in this bass so I am selling it at a loss. I just want to move it on so that I can start on the next builds I have planned.

The the body and the neck are painted in nitrocellulose from a rattle can. The finish on the body is not 100% perfect and there are a few tiny rub throughs of the shoreline gold. Perfect for a relic finish if you are into that kind of thing.

The body I assume is alder but I'm not an expert. I stripped it and refinished it.

The neck is from Allparts and was brand new. I sanded it and painted it with the satin Nitro.

38mm nut. The neck is quite chunky.

Machine heads - Schaller

Pick up - Unknown

Bridge - Gotoh OEM style

Weight on my not very accurate bathroom scales = 4kg

Gig Bag included

Any questions please ask.

Location is Exeter. I would rather not post as I don't have a hard case for it. Happy to meet up (safely) within reasonable distance.

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6 minutes ago, 3below said:

Shoreline gold does it for me   makes my recent ash 'oil' finished look cheap (but I still like it's beaten look).

I have played the gold one more than the black one so far! I really like it 😂

I haven't seen your ash oil finish but i'm sure it doesn't look cheap. Beaten look rocks. 🤘😎

9 hours ago, Slappindabass said:

Really like them all, the neck on the black one has a really nice patern to it.

That neck wasn't like that at all when I bought it. It looked quite plain. 

I stripped it and sanded it and as it got smoother the flame in it just started to appear. I was well chuffed.

In February 2015 I attended one of John Shukers bass building courses and came away with this, my main bass.

Since then I have had a few basses I wanted to try to build so I attempted this. However with no workshop, tools or much free time its been an uphill struggle. Anyway, I was furloughed from my work and made a concerted effort to finish what I'd started all that time ago.

These next two are basically bitsa basses. For the first one I bought an Alder body from Ebay in the USA.

The neck I picked up on Ebay UK I think. It is of unknown origin and was second hand and had a polyester laquer on it. After prepping I attempted to do a walnut stain to the body and neck. This went very wrong. The stain I used was more like paint and I couldn't get a nice finish at all. It showed up every stroke of the application. I was gutted. Anyway, to cut a long story short I sanded the body and neck back and started again. I decided to do the body in Black nitrocellulose and the neck in clear gloss nitrocellulose. That was a whole new challenge as its not at all straight forward. Still I got it to where it is today. See pics.

Hardware is:

Tuners - lightweight hipshot

Pick ups - Kent Armstrong J and P pickups

Electrics - One volume per pickup. EMG BTS Control, 2-Band EQ for bass guitar, features broader single-pole filters. High and Bass +/- 12 db, 4 selectable frequencies for the treble control (2100, 3500, 4500, 7000 Hz

Bridge  - Gotoh

The next one is a bitsa Precision bass I just wanted to do because I wanted a P bass. I thought a shoreline gold bass with tortoiseshell pick gaurd would look very nice. This body I think I picked up on Bass Chat a few years ago. It was fully loaded but the wrong colour. So I sanded it and refinished in shoreline gold nitrocellulose again. Once again this was quite tricky to do. The neck was bought off Ebay UK and is an Allparts brand new unfinished Jazz neck. I prefer Jazz necks as I have short stumpy fingers. This is painted with satin nitrocellulose.

Machine heads - Schaller

Pick up - Unknown

Bridge - Gotoh OEM style

So there you have it. I have at last managed to finish these basses. They are not perfect but they are mine, done by me to the best of my ability. Thanks for reading this far.

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