Bitsa Burnt Body P Bass with Roasted Flame Maple Neck £200 ONO £200 Fleet, Hampshire

[Silky999]

I am listing my first forays into bass building/modding in this listing and my others. Aesthetically, they may reflect my initial attempts, however, they all play really well.

My burnt effect bass guitar with roasted flame maple neck. This bass was built by me using a recycled body and new neck. The body was blowtorched annd then handed sanded with an oil finish. The neck, the pickups, electronics and hardware are new. The body is not perfect but is full of character and asks to be touched. 

The specs are:

21 Frets
Bass Weight 6.7lbs
Hand finished oiled body with gloss polyurethane coating.
New flame roasted maple gloss neck. I have rolled the edges, dressed the frets and added a Graphtech Tusq nut
New Warman P pickups 
Bloodstone Guitarworks electronics and pots - volume/tone
New pickguard with plastic still on
New bridge with adjustable string spacing
New tuners
Schaller style strap buttons
New D’addario EXL165 .45 - .105 strings

Overall the vibe here is heavy relic (please don’t hate as I know it’s not everyone’s cup of tea!). There is a scratch in the poly on the headstock where I slipped installing a tuner. I have tried to buff out/re-poly but poly is not as forgiving as nitro. It is definitely not a headstock crack!!!(see photo)

Again, this bass plays like an absolute dream and I would be happy to keep it in my collection and to gig with it. I put basses together that I hope appeal to the gigging player and these first ones reflect my steep learning curve and are not visually perfect. I hope they represent good value for money though. The bass comes with a new 10mm padded Donner gig bag.

 

Any questions or queries, please message me so I can bore you with more details. I can send more photos as well if you wish. 

Collection from Fleet, Hampshire and you are welcome to give it a trial play on collection to ensure that it all works and you are happy. I am absolutely open to sensible offers.

Edited Sunday at 20:16 by Silky999

[Steve Browning]

That's one hell of a neck.

[Silky999]

46 minutes ago, Steve Browning said:

That's one hell of a neck.

It is a lovely thing and a “cheap” Chinese one off eBay. The seller even sent me photos of a choice of three so I could choose. Took about 2-3 weeks to arrive. I’m so annoyed I put the scratch on it when doing the tuners but the headstock/decal had about 10 coats of wipe on poly on it by that stage but the thought of a complete sand back and starting again filled me with horror on what was always only going to be a relatively low priced bass to sell.
 

I have learnt so much from each build I have done with the biggest ones being……patience and you can never mask too much up lol!

 

This is the current project….my first attempt at spraying a body and matching headstock. It will have a white pearl pickguard and should hopefully be for sale on here in a couple of weeks.

 

 

The jazz bass below just sold. I’m particularly pleased with the wooden pickguard on this one but it took about 20 coats of wipe-on poly to get it to a point where I was happy to sand and buff and know that it would be durable enough to last with someone playing with a plectrum.

 

 

 

Edited Sunday at 09:20 by Silky999

[JoeEvans]

I really like the burnt one!

[Silky999]

2 hours ago, JoeEvans said:

I really like the burnt one!

Thank you..it did turn out even better than I expected. 

[Gilson]

I came to this topic from my Google news feed.  

 

Great work, IMO.  Following your work. 

[Silky999]

 

1 minute ago, Gilson said:

I came to this topic from my Google news feed.  

 

Great work, IMO.  Following your work. 

Gilson, that’s really kind of you to say….