Hi there, I'm new on the board and I wanted to show you what I made with my own hands.
Here's the story, I scarrow across the musicstores in my country looking for damaged guitars that I botch up and then sell on again, when I found this Damaged-beyond-repair Japanese made copy of a Rickenbacker 4001 bass. I layed down the requiered 50 bucks and the Plywood wonder was mine, I love enourmous Louisville slugger profile necks and this baby had the mother of them all. So I went out, made routing templates for a new body and went to work with the neck as basis for what I was planning.
I used five pieces of very tighly flamed maple and nice dark platanus contrasting stripes, but when the glue was hardening, I found out (too late) that the lower half of the body was not wide enough and so I had no other choice but to rout it out slightly off centre, the only mistake in this otherwise very well turned out bass. I used ABM and Grover hardware, switchcraft electronics and Kent Armstrong pickups and it has since become my main bass, everywhere I take it out People go Whoa, dude, where'd you get that awesome looking bass? and I can proudly state that I made it myself.
And so I wanted to know what you think of my handywork.
