Let's see your GUITAR!

[ashdown]

that green is sick!

[aussy]

I love Yamaha SBVs, so much...
wish I played bass

[Inertia]

Reminds me of FOTC.


Great looking bass

[Mudfuzz]

My Jaguar Bass is finally done
This was my first time refinishing anything, so it took me forever and I made a lot of small errors which required me to sand it all the way back to bare wood each time. Sanding by hand is hell. Once I saw Thurston Moore's trans-green Jazzmaster I was set on copping that finish, I was awestruck! So here it is (click for biggun's)






It started out candy apple red with a white pickguard. I have to give a big thanks to the dudes at reranch.com for guidance and also for providing the decal! I really learned a lot while doing this project, and now I want to do even more.
I "routed" the middle pickup cavity with a wood chisel -- it's a Rickenbacker HB2 humbucker, which I believe are on the 4004 series basses but good luck finding any information about the actual pickup. I had to buy it direct from them. I hated the pickups that came with this, so they have been replaced with Dimarzio Model Js, which were a terrible creme color but some Rustoleum solved that (it's on the pickguard too). I got rid of the preamp, so now the three switches are NECK/MIDDLE/BRIDGE on/offs, with a master volume and tone. The other switch is SERIES/PARALLEL for the HB2. The roller knobs are currently unused but who knows what the future holds. Maybe volume for the J's and volume for the HB2...
Anyway, it has a nitro finish except for the neck, which is still poly because I wasn't confident in stripping it. The headstock is nitro.
It's tuned BEAD and the pickups sound MASSIVE, just beautiful! This is my dream!
Oh yeah, I firmly believe that adding a number to any name makes it cooler, so that's that.

My three loves:


The SBV-500, which I adore, has a sparkly finish but you can't see it here. The pickups are great, unique sounding Js, and the build quality is excellent -- at least equal to my MIJ Jaguar Bass -- and it's made in Taiwan! Surprising! Finding this, here, with the price I paid ($200 and it was in a $300 gig bag) was a once-in-a-lifetime chance I think. This is a reissue of a 60's bass that was sold in the early 2000s, one of five different models. They stopped making these in 2006/7, but here in the US I think they became rare a few years before that. I love it!

The Wagoneer...I posted this before. There isn't much else to be said about it, other than that the seatbelt was cut out of my first car, as is the door emblem embedded in the body. It has a SD Quarter Pound and a GFS MM-style pickup. I am confident that if you beat someone to death with it, it would stay in tune.

(If anybody cares, the background is the former bathroom door of Volume CDs. I bought it from the owner before he had to close down the shop. Here it is in its natural habitat)

Totally sick! I love it! great job

[Achtane]

Thanks dudes!

[musiqueer]

Achtane, that Jag is awesome!

[colin]

Good work on the refin Achtane, looks awesome. I've been considering refinishing my strat for a bit now, I'm not a big fan of sunbursts but I really like the guitar.

[masked elwood]

My Jaguar Bass is finally done
This was my first time refinishing anything, so it took me forever and I made a lot of small errors which required me to sand it all the way back to bare wood each time. Sanding by hand is hell. Once I saw Thurston Moore's trans-green Jazzmaster I was set on copping that finish, I was awestruck! So here it is (click for biggun's)






It started out candy apple red with a white pickguard. I have to give a big thanks to the dudes at reranch.com for guidance and also for providing the decal! I really learned a lot while doing this project, and now I want to do even more.
I "routed" the middle pickup cavity with a wood chisel -- it's a Rickenbacker HB2 humbucker, which I believe are on the 4004 series basses but good luck finding any information about the actual pickup. I had to buy it direct from them. I hated the pickups that came with this, so they have been replaced with Dimarzio Model Js, which were a terrible creme color but some Rustoleum solved that (it's on the pickguard too). I got rid of the preamp, so now the three switches are NECK/MIDDLE/BRIDGE on/offs, with a master volume and tone. The other switch is SERIES/PARALLEL for the HB2. The roller knobs are currently unused but who knows what the future holds. Maybe volume for the J's and volume for the HB2...
Anyway, it has a nitro finish except for the neck, which is still poly because I wasn't confident in stripping it. The headstock is nitro.
It's tuned BEAD and the pickups sound MASSIVE, just beautiful! This is my dream!
Oh yeah, I firmly believe that adding a number to any name makes it cooler, so that's that.

My three loves:


The SBV-500, which I adore, has a sparkly finish but you can't see it here. The pickups are great, unique sounding Js, and the build quality is excellent -- at least equal to my MIJ Jaguar Bass -- and it's made in Taiwan! Surprising! Finding this, here, with the price I paid ($200 and it was in a $300 gig bag) was a once-in-a-lifetime chance I think. This is a reissue of a 60's bass that was sold in the early 2000s, one of five different models. They stopped making these in 2006/7, but here in the US I think they became rare a few years before that. I love it!

The Wagoneer...I posted this before. There isn't much else to be said about it, other than that the seatbelt was cut out of my first car, as is the door emblem embedded in the body. It has a SD Quarter Pound and a GFS MM-style pickup. I am confident that if you beat someone to death with it, it would stay in tune.

(If anybody cares, the background is the former bathroom door of Volume CDs. I bought it from the owner before he had to close down the shop. Here it is in its natural habitat)

looks great!!!! .....love the green...love the yamaha too.

[BlindtoFaith]

I am in love with your Jag bass!

[theavondon]

That bass is inspiring. Off to the workshop!

[mauerkraut]

My Jaguar Bass is finally done
This was my first time refinishing anything, so it took me forever and I made a lot of small errors which required me to sand it all the way back to bare wood each time. Sanding by hand is hell. Once I saw Thurston Moore's trans-green Jazzmaster I was set on copping that finish, I was awestruck! So here it is (click for biggun's)

Shaguar Bass. Lovely! Please post audio!!!
I'd like to hear that HB2 pickup.

Waiting for my PJ in the mail

[darthbatman]

Here is mine, it's still being built
























That there's Jake Goede, head luthier and woodsculptor @ Birdsong guitars.
Scott's the head honcho, so the basses are all his design. But Jake's the man.




















Birdsong Guitars - Sadhana (sanskrit for 'spiritual practice') #51
31"-scale four-string bass with a maple neck,
24-fret bloodwood fingerboard, will have black hardware.
Body, a mahogany center under a matching bloodwood top,
two maple stringers and walnut wings. Macassar ebony headstock veneer,
there will be a matching control plate on the front with custom knobs
(2 volume knobs and a 6-position Varitone circuit to cut frequencies).
All in all, three grand. Never been so stoked in my entire life.

[kosta]

Whoa. That is gonna be a beaut!

[mathias]

Awesome! I want to build a through-neck laminate guitar

[Mudfuzz]

Here is mine, it's still being built













































Birdsong Guitars - Sadhana (sanskrit for 'spiritual practice')
31"-scale four-string bass with a maple neck,
24-fret bloodwood fingerboard, will have black hardware.
Body, a mahogany center under a matching bloodwood top,
two maple stringers and walnut wings. Macassar ebony headstock veneer,
there will be a matching control plate on the front with custom knobs
(2 volume knobs and a 6-position Varitone circuit to cut frequencies).
All in all, three grand. Never been so stoked in my entire life.

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