Well so my dad's 70'th birthday is nearing and I decided to make a bass in his honor, a bass which he unknowingly designed.
See back when I was a boy he once made me toy guitar by sawing out what is roughly the shape of an electric guitar on a piece of plywood with a piece of construction lumber as a neck.
The neck has long since gone but the body was always kept, the paintjob I did back then has since flaked and faded.
But I kept looking at that old body and going How cool would it be to turn this old thing into a real playing instrument for dad's birthday?
So I took it to the workshop, traced it onto a new piece of plywood, cleaned up a lot of the wonky lines and made it into a template for a four string bass.
Initially my idea was to honor the original toy by using scrap material so I routed out a body from pine, to be finished in black with a Fender style pickguard (you can make out the place where I drew the pickguard on the original toy) but when orders came in for basses made from very pretty pieces of maple I decided to make it into deluxe bass.
It has a Hippie Sandwich body of striped maple, Cedrella (Spanish ceder) and tiger maple. The pickups are custom wound Harry Hauessel units and the Bridge is a Leo Quann badass II.
Go here to see the whole process.
http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/well-my-dad-will-70-year-so-im-going-make-commemorative-bass-1016389/ I hope you guys dig my handywork here, it certainly was a labor of love.
