TheGreek Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 Cos it's definitely been butchered.. https://www.gumtree.com/p/guitar-instrument/custom-short-scale-bass-guitar/1302022615 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alyctes Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 How are you supposed to tune it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted June 29, 2018 Share Posted June 29, 2018 I have a horrible feeling that it involves using a screwdriver on the screws shown in photo #6. So this is what - a sawn-off, fully-loaded Strat guitar body with a Jap headless neck screwed to it? Even if the neck came from a short-scale bass (30.5") it's hard to imagine that the frets will be in the right place for a guitar (25.5") hybrid monstrosity like this. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted June 29, 2018 Author Share Posted June 29, 2018 Not content with ruining one musical instrument - needed to do two... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 It's a chopped-up Strat copy with home-made string retainers/"tuners" & strung with bass strings. Odd thing is, if they'd used budget headless hardware (the Chinese Hohner copy stuff that's about £30) they'd have saved themselves a lot of metalwork & could have spent that time routing for P/J pups & making a scratchplate. And they'd have had something that worked, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Dare Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 "Real bargain for the festival season". Great for banging in tent pegs... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul_5 Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 Erm, through body stringing should involve a shallower angle that that shouldn't it? Those just nose-dive through the body! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted June 30, 2018 Share Posted June 30, 2018 The neck looks like a standard cheapo strat copy with the headstock sawn off rather than an originally headless neck. It looks like the string retainer thingy might make it difficult or impossible to get an allen key in to adjust the truss rod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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