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darn I thought I had a lead. my plan is to give it a few months and then just move the parts on to someone who can make use of them. Sitting in my cupboard isn't a great life for the parts.

he doesn't still have the old pickup does he 😛

I've thought about the own pickguard, the issue with the neck and body for me is where the bridge needs to be because it's a 24 fretted neck, it's kinda weird as is at the moment. need to rout out a considerable amount of the body to get it where I'd like it.

I've been hunting parts and it's not going well ha. I do like the put the basses back to the studio and grabber original states but it's looking like an expensive and hens toothing mission atm sadly.

It was as in the photos when I got received it, gent that just wanted rid (he had hundreds of other projects all guitar) it had been out of commission for several years the neck isn't grafted on it's been screwed in place, they added a shim to the neck and the under the bridge and when I added strings the action was pretty nice. the grapper body is pretty weighty as well, I should seperate them and get the weight but reckoning 5/6lbs grabber/studio got to be "the stabber"

That's a nice looking instrument, I always wanted a grabber (huge greenday fan as a lad) but never got near before this body. I do like the idea of fixing it up but it could take many a year

Absolutely no Idea, the bridge was mounted well up the body and the two pickups actually fit in the groove tightly. "out of their wallets" I knew they were great basses that's why I went over, the original images were a bit dark so didn't realise it was the frankenbass until I arrived. I wonder if parting it out may be the best option, looking at two projects is costly and melody/grabber parts are like hens teeth it seems.

I thought the body was potentially a Melody but I actually have no idea what it may have been from originally and not sure how to find out. Best suggestion I had so far was to seperate the two basses and rebuild a grabber and an Ibanez Studio, great idea but not sure my wallet or skills would achieve it

Hi peoples, I have just picked up a £25 Project bass and it's quite the thing, from what I can work out the neck, bridge and pickups electronics are from an Ibanez Studio Bass from the 70s however the body is not. I've thrown a few pictures on here and it appears from the routing it appears to from a Gibson Grabber style bassyou can see the faint outline of that style of pickguard as well. I have no idea what I've got myself into with this project atm and a little extra info or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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