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HazBeen

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  1. Just parking this one here…… if you followed my tandem build thread you will remember I took the Thunderbird pickups out of my Bogart. Tonight I routed the Bogart body to fit a PJ config and made a new pickguard.

     

    Just waiting on a new battery box to be delivered and will then add a Noll TCM4XM pre to the Geezer setup. I need this done so I can focus on the Streamer.

     

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  2. 1 hour ago, LeftyJ said:

    I hate it, but I love it xD

    Sad to see it beyond repair, but really cool plan and I look forward to the finished result! 

    Get it. I would very much have preferred it to not be the case, but the brake was pretty bad to start with so reglueing would have been far from ideal. This way I can keep the soul of the original, but fix it so that it is actually ready for the next 37 years…

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  3. 6 hours ago, PlungerModerno said:

    It is a naturally gorgeous wood, and that looks like a good piece of it.

     

    May I be the first to suggest, after you work out the hardware, especially the bridge tuners / tuner block, that you add some chambers to the body to tune the balance? Without the headstock it may be bridge heavy. I'd say see how it is, but I'd expect to see some benefit from weight reduction at both ends if it was nicely balanced before the break.

     

    Just a suggestion! Best of luck with this promising project!

    Appreciate the suggestion. The old Streamer body is too slim to chamber anything realistically, but I do not think it will be any issue.
     

    The Nova bridge is very light, lighter than the Schaller roller bridge it originally had. Add to the the recess I will need to make (probably) in the body to create proper access to the tuning knobs and I am 99% sure balance will not be an issue.

  4. Slow beginnings……

     

    Frets are almost dead, so will do a refret (assuming I can do the fix).

     

    Frets came out without too much fuss.

     

    Also made a small start in getting the neck ready for the new “head” to be glued on. Mainly to check there are not further hidden cracks. I will make the angle even shallower to ensure I have as much surface areas as I can for the glue up, but need to know how the hardware sits to get it spot on. 1ABDD4AE-5420-4760-8198-5C1F35D9105E.thumb.jpeg.cd3989998264d73e1dea04fb859a7161.jpeg

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  5. 1 hour ago, Hellzero said:

    I also had an old beheaded Streamer from the 80's. It had been fixed, broke again when falling from its stand, then binned... I know. 🤦‍♂️

    Not ready to give up on this one yet….. the plan should work :) 

  6. So I came home today to this……. (See pics)

     

    My 1984, serial 067 Streamer headstock (it was a glued repair) has miraculously let go….

     

    The body has a minor dent at the bottom from my guitar rack, and obviously the bass is beheaded. Like Gibsons, the early Streamers were prone to breakage due to not having a volute.

     

    The break was pretty ugly and repaired by a monkey, but the bass sounds wonderful and glue is stronger than wood. So I used it quite often, never an issue.

     

    But since it has let go and I will probable never be able to sell anyway, I have hatched a cunning plan…..

     

    I could replace a large part of the top of neck and headstock with new wood, add some splines ….. basic traditional Gibson-esque surgery. But I am going to do something else….. I am going to use the wood of the headstock, graft that in place (keeping serial number intact) and turn the bass into a (semi) headless!

     

    Will post the plan/design here soon. But the plan is to go from beheaded to headless, using mostly original wood.

     

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  7. 5 hours ago, MoonBassAlpha said:

    Looks nice! The body has a touch of Alpher (Mako?) about it.

    Did it come out particularly weighty?

    I have to admit I had to look a Mako up, yeah I see what you are saying. Although this is more traditional/conventional (in my view) due to not having an offset body. The design was in part inspired by a G&L SB2, with a P bass meets modern Single Cut.

     

    3.7kg, so pretty decent.

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  8. So the question is……. What to do with the body.

     

    Initially I thought about staining it black. Maybe doing a black burst and then finishing with lacquer. But the more I look at the alder - it is quite figured for Alder - I am thinking oil finish/ no extra colour. With the dark neck, a light body is quite nice. And for sure no pickguard methinks.

     

    I have never done an oil only finish on alder before.


    Pls note sanding is still only up to 80/120 grit at the moment.

     

    Open to audience opinions and ideas 😂

     

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