Your 'Frankenbass' creations - it's alive!!!!

[Chiliwailer]

So what cool mods, merges or creations have you made???

Due to back issues and a love of Precision basses I got a '96 Sterling and replaced the pickup with a vintage Jason Lollar Precision pick up. Originally it was passive, but later I reconected the preamp which surprisingly still sounds very natural and rootsy, especially with the flatwounds.

[Old Horse Murphy]

Here's my number one gigging bass.

It's a US Fender P bass body that was bought by me in 1989. I think it came from an mid-80's US P bass.

The neck was lost along the way (it was banana shaped!) so was replaced with a 2008 US Fender neck.

The bridge was taken from the same 2008 bass. The pickup is a 62 reissue along with the pickguard which were both fitted years ago.

It also has Sims LEDs mounted in the side dot positions and at one stage it had a preamp fitted hence the additional hole in the pickguard.

It also has a set of TI flats on it that are at least 2 years old!

I know every ding, dent and scuff on it and love it with all my heart. It's the one bass I can hand on heart say will never leave me

Edited June 14, 2013 by Old Horse Murphy

[Ou7shined]

My main player...
'78 Fender P body, grain texture finish in antique white / clear lacquer with subtle darker lacquer burst
G&L pups/bridge/control plate, homemade pickguard, Dunlop locks
Homemade maple one piece neck, Schaller tuners + Hipshot Xtender
Passively wired for... neck pup > series/single coil/passive bass boost <pup selector> bridge pup > series/parallel

[gary mac]

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My main player...
'78 Fender P body, grain texture finish in antique white / clear lacquer with subtle darker lacquer burst
G&L pups/bridge/control plate, homemade pickguard, Dunlop locks
Homemade maple one piece neck, Schaller tuners + Hipshot Xtender
Passively wired for... neck pup > series/single coil/passive bass boost <pup selector> bridge pup > series/parallel


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Love this bass Rich.

Hope you are well, haven't seen you around these parts of late.

[Chiliwailer]

What a great couple of basses to get us started, thanks guys - I'm loving the vibes and awesome basses.

[Minty]

Here's my frankenjazz...

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]80's Japanese Fender E-series body, routed for P-bass pickup in the neck.[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Fender MIM Jazz neck refinished in nitro.[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Wizard Big P/J pickups.[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Tuning pegs and control plate from a '62 American Reissue.[/font][/color]
[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]Gotoh 201b bridge plate and Gotoh 203b saddles.[/font][/color]

[DarkHeart]

all my basses have been put together by me (except for the the 5 string Rockbass) so they all class as Frankenbasses

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the cherry Jazz now has a black scratchplate and a mm humbucker fitted courtesy of Bassdoc, im thinking of the same combo for the precision as well

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this was a body bought off here to match a neck bought from China, it plays and sounds very very nice.

Edited May 18, 2013 by DarkHeart

[Chiliwailer]

Here's two of my old ones, both with new owners but not forgotten...

Stingray pickups with two coil split options, Fender 57 Reissue pickup and active passive mode.

The other is a 71 Musicmaster with Dimarzio PJ pickups, all new hardware and paint job. Awesome short scale.

Edited May 18, 2013 by Chiliwailer

[paul h]

Jim Deacon P in CAR. Artec pickup, mint scratchplate, unbranded jazz neck, proper thumbrest, piece of hard foam thumbrest because I miss a j pickup, straplocks. Crappy photo.

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Edited May 21, 2013 by paul h

[ped]

My Vigier is all custom as it had nothing in it originally

Marleaux 3 band pre, Basstec pickups, custom pickup surround, Roland GK system

[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiscocks/8176210536/][/url]
[url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/chiscocks/8176210536/]Vigier Passion GK[/url] by [url=http://www.flickr.com/people/chiscocks/]chiscocks[/url], on Flickr

It's been my #1 for years now!

ped

[ped]

There must be more than these, surely!

[Dave Vader]

I just realised I have no decent photos of my main frankenstein, and main bass. Here's one from Beautiful Days last year,
It's an 83 Ibanez Roadstar body, with an SD Ricky replacement pup in the bridge, an old Kay pickup in the neck, and a lovely warmoth ebony fretless jazz neck. bridge was a cheap thing I bought cos it had the right string spacing for the pickups.

I started refinishing it when I first put it together 3 or 4 years ago, but had a gig and needed to put it back together quickly as my only other bass at the time had gone awol in another bands van (not permanently, I just left it there til the next gig with that band). I still haven't finished the refin, and it seems to get me more work looking like this, as people remember it (or me, not sure which).

Anyhow, picture yeah...



All my others are technically frankensteins, but since they look like 2 P-basses and a r********er I won't bother posting them.

[ezbass]

I no longer have this, but here's my old double P: additional p/up, drop D, scratch plate, stripped neck.

[IMG]http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk344/ezbass/RWCustom.jpg[/IMG]

[Bloodaxe]

Not really a Frankenstein, but I modded an SB-1000 into a sort of fretless SB-900:

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v40/Bloodaxe/Bass/SB-1000F/SB-1000F-001-1.jpg[/IMG]

Stripped out the actives, kept the varitone.

[paul_5]

alright, I'll play. First up - my fretted 'home bass' P bass body hacked at to take a MM pickup and a J neck PUP, 'Yamato' neck and Artec 2 band EQ

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then my main squeeze - J body altered to take the MM bridge PUP, Mighty Mite fretless J neck and an Artec 3 band EQ

[URL=http://s1221.photobucket.com/user/paul_510/media/fretless_zpsd996afeb.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1221.photobucket.com/albums/dd471/paul_510/fretless_zpsd996afeb.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[Jimryan]

My turn...

Started off as a Squier VM precision.

P'up changed for a basslines QP,
Basslines MM 'bucker fitted, ashtray covers,
Farida Jazz Neck (due to change),
Hipshot X-Tender,
Schaller Strap-loks,
The sticker gets changed every time it fades, was a hyrule crest previously.

[URL=http://s1258.photobucket.com/user/jimryan88/media/image-10_zps1fe77f18.jpg.html][IMG]http://i1258.photobucket.com/albums/ii527/jimryan88/image-10_zps1fe77f18.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

[paul_5]

Nice that.

[krysh]

my frankenjazz:
-around 1985 finished and unused esp swamp ash body I got as a present
-2008 shuker neck with hipshot ultralites bought from here
-nordstrand nj4se bought from here
-audere preamp bought from a german board.
-pickguard from the bay
-unknown bridge my luthier had lying around

killer tone and playability.



and no, it's not for sale.

[Jimryan]

[quote name='krysh' timestamp='1371232131' post='2111579']
my frankenjazz:
-around 1985 finished and unused esp swamp ash body I got as a present
-2008 shuker neck with hipshot ultralites bought from here
-nordstrand nj4se bought from here
-audere preamp bought from a german board.
-pickguard from the bay
-unknown bridge my luthier had lying around

killer tone and playability.



and no, it's not for sale.
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Have you picked that scratch plate to match your carpet?

[krysh]

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1371233386' post='2111611']
Have you picked that scratch plate to match your carpet?
[/quote]
yep, and the straps and one of my amps.

Edited June 14, 2013 by krysh

[Jimryan]

[quote name='krysh' timestamp='1371233631' post='2111617']

yep, and the straps and one of my amps.
[/quote]

...don't believe you...prove it

[krysh]

[quote name='Jimryan' timestamp='1371234059' post='2111625']
...don't believe you...prove it
[/quote]
check the pics on my website.

edit, anyway here it is:

Edited June 14, 2013 by krysh

[umcoo]

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Geddy Body
Warmoth Neck
Schecter Monstertone Pickups
Schaller Hardware

[simon1964]

[quote name='ezbass' timestamp='1371147394' post='2110567']
I no longer have this, but here's my old double P: additional p/up, drop D, scratch plate, stripped neck.


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That is stunning!

[ezbass]

[quote name='simon1964' timestamp='1371235772' post='2111659']


That is stunning!
[/quote]Thank you sir! A great sounding bass that had to move on due to head dive making my shoulder very sore indeed