No bikebuilding due to bad weather; Results!

Narratis

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So,
the weather is shite, which means working outside is most unpleasant :(
And, since I need to procastrinate with my exams coming up, I picked up an old project for which I have been picking up some bits over the last week.

I bought this old East-German bass for just €10 a few years back, all hacked up, and re-did the electrics.
Since the previous owner made it frettless, quite poorly, I swapped the neck for a different one I had lying around. However, I wrecked some rusty old bridge saddle in the process.

So, last week I picked up a complete second hand bridge at my local bass-expert, who graciously threw in a fairly new capacitor for free to replace the utter crap one I had installed. I stripped the body of all components and simply dyed it black. Then I re-did the awful soldering I did a few years back and installed the new capacitor. Now it looks all neat and such :) Finally, I made a volume and tone knob out of a pair of old dice.

Then, Rebuild! View results below!
You may notice a slight absence of neck, which I regret to say is a direct result of poor East-German screw quality... I broke one in 3 (!) pieces upon disassembly, and another on reassembly. That's gonna be quite a pickle to sort out.

Cheers!
 

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love the finish on that, very nice

I got a dean caddy of 1980's vintage which I am doing very very slowly!
 
haha,
Credits for the finish go to my mum, she is a much better painter than I am, haha
Just good old paint & brush skills :)

But that is one edgy piece of equipment you have there.
Any good at playing it? I used to have a guitar but recently sold it because I'm no good with 6 strings.
 
haha,
Credits for the finish go to my mum, she is a much better painter than I am, haha
Just good old paint & brush skills :)

But that is one edgy piece of equipment you have there.
Any good at playing it? I used to have a guitar but recently sold it because I'm no good with 6 strings.

been playing for 40 years now, son is better than me as he has more time for practising.

we have about 8 guitars in the house atm :D
 
That's quite a few years then, haha.
I started 4 years ago and have collected 4 basses, but I have too many hobbies and such now to spend enough time practicing. :(

In my defence, I did start very young. yes I have lots of hobbies too but wouldn't have it anyother way.

I was told today a scout thought I was 18 ;) good lad
 
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