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1 hour ago, Kickass said:

I would like to buy the neck. I'm new here, how would you like payment?

Thank you.

Dane

I've PM'd you.

11 minutes ago, Kickass said:

Very interested in your neck. How did it play before being removed? Does the truss rod work?

Thank you.

Dane

No idea as I bought the bass and immediately took it apart to make a headless short scale, 5 string version. Truss rod does turn.

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12 minutes ago, NancyJohnson said:

 

 

I don't want to pour scorn onto this project unnecessarily - and not wanting to disappoint - but you've done your measurements, right?  Sometimes simply screwing everything together doesn't work.

 

The bolt-on Thunderbird neck pocket is fairly deeply recessed into the body and granted I'm only doing measurements off the photo above and concluded what I've posted below.  Assuming the short scale length is 31/32" (if it was a four string), won't the bridge be hanging off the back of the body?  You've effectively lost 2-3 inches off the neck length, you're using the existing neck pocket rout and to compound things, if you're going with a five string the low B will require an even longer throw than the assumed E-string scale.

 

The reason the Thunderbird/Fender neck hybrid worked was because the two instruments shared (pretty much) the same scale length and the Fender neck is fairly easily accommodated by the Epiphone rout. 

 

I've done my measurements. I've rerouted the neck pocket, and the neck was from a 6 string squier v1. The bridge saddle will be just behind the volume control. It'll all fit

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Bodged the finish - it ain't a pro job in any way, shape or form, but I like it.

The wallpaper was embossed, so unless I put 200 coats of lacquer on it was never going to be smooth, so we have a smooth, textured finish. My burst is iffy at best, so you are never going to see this for sale on here as a perfect finish.

I've still got the bridge and headstock attachment to fit but it's close to the end (I hope).

I bought this last year from a lovely guy in Essex but haven't touched it (my Ibanez ehb1005sms has been getting all the love) so it's up for sale. 

Black nylon strings fitted. It's got a hard case (the previous owner cut down a normal width case to fit this).

I would say this is 9.9/10 conditionwise.

Pick up / meet up somewhere or post.

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Bartolini® BH2 neck pickup

Bartolini® BH2 bridge pickup

Removed from an Ibanez EHB1005SMS 5 string bass.

I've never had anything but great, friendly service from BD. That's all I can say.

I know this is an ancient post but I've just converted a Stagg EUB to 5 strings and thought I'd just add it here rather than start a new post.

Luckily it is one of the newer versions, so I didn't need to add anything to the head end. I just plugged the holes on the treble side. Re-drilled three 18mm holes and also routed a little extra space so that I could fit the original two tuners plus one new one. I cut a new nut from a piece of ebony and also plugged the middle two bridge holes and re-drilled 3 holes. It's not perfect but It looks and plays like it was designed to be a 5 string all along.

New wallpaper now stuck to the body. It's a perfect match for the gunmetal colour that is going to be the 'burst'. I'm leaving it to dry for several days before feathering the edges and then doing the 'burst' (I've learnt not to rush things, which is why I screwed up the previous wallpaper effort). Just waiting for the bridge to arrive from China (hoping I've measured properly this time and don't end up with two lots of 'the wrong size' headless bass bridges).

Sorted out the paintwork, but as it's about to be covered with a paper poster I'm not too worried except for the edges. Talking of the paper poster, it arrived this morning. I've already cut it to shape but I'm not doing anything else until I've the time do do it properly. The 5 string headless bass bridge has also arrived. Unfortunately I hadn't measured properly and the string spacing is too wide for the neck (so it will be for sale on here very soon, probably at a great loss to me financially  Instead I've ordered individual headless bass tuners that (according the the advert) are 10mm wide each (rather than the 15mm wide ones on my Ibanez 1005SMS). This should work (says he crossing everything he has).

Anyway, here's the bass with it's metallic gunmetal finish, and then a mockup of the swirl finish wallpaper that is going to be stuck to both the front and back.

OK. Update. Screwed up the poster. I think because it wasn't proper wallpaper and I put too much paste on it the pattern came off when I just touched it, so new 'proper wallpaper' has been ordered.

2 hours ago, LouieM said:

This is looking great, glad to see someone using that bass for something

Thanks for selling it to me

New plan. I wanted to do either a 70's paisley wallpaper finish or an aqua swirl finish. I've just found a poster of aqua swirl, so I've ordered it and will do a wallpaper style finish with that (not only is it roughly what I was thinking of anyway, but once I've sanded out the majority of the imperfections the poster will cover anything left. I was spraying with metallic silver grey gun metal paint, so I'll still have that as the edge burst.

Oh, I forgot. Headstock has been hacked off and the first tuner hole that was left, plugged. I've sort of made it the shape of the lower bout of a thunderbird to attempt to keep the design process similar (dahrling).

All primed up and first coat of paint. All the imperfections have now shown up (thought I’d got them all sanded away

Got to resand the front of the body and start again (bugger)

Photos of what I said I’d done (above).

Don’t look too closely at my routing. It’s the first time I’ve ever done it and I’m sure some veneer can fill any gaps that might show when I’ve fitted the neck.

On 03/08/2022 at 16:22, BreadBin said:

Thats why I'm going short scale headless

I've filled in the bridge pickup cavity, bridge stud holes and one pot hole with some old mahogany window sill I had lying around. Cut the lip from the end of the neck cavity and am about to route a 2 cm deeper neck cavity for the short scale conversion. Had a new nut made for the neck and slightly enlarged the neck pickup cavity for the Thunderbucker that arrived the other day, along with a wiring harness from our own KiOgan. The headless bridge and head end attachments are on their way on the slow boat from China. Pictures coming soon.

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sorry about no photos. Been without Wi-Fi for a week so can only upload words not pictures due to crap 4G

I understand that the bridge pickup may be slightly microphonic (I've stripped the bass as a project so never played it).

Came off an Indonesian made Squier Bass V1 but the same as on a Strat/Tele etc.

Ferrules are 8mm.

With Epi Truss rod cover