Shaggy

Lush - the best Gibson paint colours IMHO, should have done ages ago......

Orgasm addict - Buzzcocks

Dancing with myself - Billy Idol

Na Na is the saddest word - Stylistics

Very collectible, especially with name artist recordings. I’d say worth putting up on eBay (where most collectors would search), or on Gumtree / Facebook. If you just want rid for pennies; any local vintage / antique shop would probably take them, or they’d go like hotcakes at a car boot sale. That’s what happened to most of my vinyl LP’s when we moved house and “She Who Must Be Obeyed” made me get rid of them - they sold instantly, and later on I saw MY LP’s being sold at the other end of the car boot sale with a 1000% markup........grrrrrr

LA Woman - Doors

Sailing on the seven seas - OMD

I think it was a Hondo, and Bruce Foxton started with an Ibanez Ric-alike.

Diamonds on the soles of her shoes - Paul Simon

Atom heart mother - Pink Floyd

The Banana Splits were the original furry prog rockers of course - I think they were Vox endorsees back in the ‘60’s; confusingly the hippy lion bassist’s bass looked suspiciously like a guitar, but seen sporting some sort of Jazz bass in the recent movie spin off......

(It wasn’t, I tell ya.....) Before you accuse me - Bo Diddly / Eric Clapton

Love in a void - Siouxsie & the Banshees

The shadow of love - The Damned

Eye in the sky - Alan Parsons Project

Lol don’t worry Chris, when you’re ready I have a Mesa Diesel 1516 cab with your name on it...... Yup, I don’t think you could find a pleasanter spot for a meet up than the Harbourmaster on a sunny day. All well cheers, likewise hope alls well with you, Mrs Beedster and the Beedster gals

Diolch yn fawr! 🙂 Did I buy it from you John? I recall a meet many years ago in Carmarthen.......

It's a Warmoth, specifically with a neck pocket routed to take a Fender neck (the Epi one is slightly slimmer), and original p/up routes were for P/J. (you could order any format / facing you liked). Unfortunately, I think Gibson have now stopped Warmoth making them.

Good score and great project Maude; I once saw the guitar version of this which had the body totally covered in textured faux snakeskin! It seems to be a feature of German basses and guitars of this era that the strings run almost parallel from nut to bridge, such that there is very little taper on the neck. I had a Framus Grand Star jazz guitar just the same. Or maybe it was a European thing?

Lol, thanks for saying so bassaussie, but if you look at the build diary sub-forum you’ll see projects far more ambitious than mine, there are BC-ers who are proper luthiers........

New Amsterdam - Elvis Costello

I’ve sourced everything for my builds on here and eBay; if you’re not in a hurry and keep a project on the back burner, then eventually something you want will turn up cheap. That said, often the specific parts I need are only available in (eg) the US, and not cheap. As I’ve said, I don’t think I’ve lost money on mine over the years, but best to build just for yourself and avoid thinking about resale value. One I forgot about (and still own) just to show bitsas don’t have to be Fenderesque - this was acquired as a nice bitsa P/J Fenderbird from a local BC-er, and gradually morphed into a “Mike Lull-type” custom Thunderbird with every component except body replaced: Warmoth one-piece mahogany body with book-matched cocobolo top. MIK Epiphone T’bird neck 1980’s Gibson logo Schaller M4S tuners (as on Victory bass) Dual Thunderbucker ‘66 pickups imported from US (cost probably over twice everything else put together, but fabulous pickups.....) Solid brass ‘60’s type bridge & tailpiece (also from US)

Spitfire - The Prodigy

A couple of my previous builds: custom fretless "Stingray" build around a 1980 MM Sabre neck that I'd put an African blackwood fretless board on (the original fretted rosewood board had split); body cut and routed from a solid plank of Bubinga, with quarter inch Thuja burr facing. Neck plate and cavity covers cut from solid brass sheet; battery cover is hinged. Seymour Duncan MM p/up and circuit. Nice, but I made the body too thick, so it weighed a ton........ Also pic of a P bass bitsa build around a 1979 MIA Fender ash body; originally built with a '79 Fender fretless maple neck on, but pictured with a MIJ RI fretted rosewood one.

Hot pants - B52’s (also with a shake........)