where do you start!

[adledman]

some poor devil has bid!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Hand-Made-4-String-Electric-Bass-Guitar-Maple-Body-Bubinga-Top-/301929669403?hash=item464c69231b:g:Nt0AAOSwLmVXD~OG

[PaulWarning]

would anybody buy this without playing it first?

[Roger2611]

It looks like a better build than many "hand made" horrors I have seen advertised, it looks better built than many factory jobs on the market, sadly it's actual value will be a long way from its sentimental value to the builder

[Luulox]

Apart from the headstock, I think it looks alright.

[spectoremg]

I think he ran out of money when it came to the 5/6 string bridge - the necks clearly wide enough!

[Hobbayne]

Shill bidder to start the ball rolling??

[PlungerModerno]

Not Terrible - but is very much "Person who likes basses & woodworking, but never learned guitar setup or guitar building - or how to play bass before building one".

It's got a number of issues, assuming the truss rod & other hardware is on right, and the wood grain is good (looks like quarter sawn or almost quarter sawn maple in the neck for example) - it could be put right.

+1 to you Luulox - the headstock is just messy - needs to be stripped back, holes filled, and done right from scratch.

I'm not sure spectoremg, I think given the choice of pickups, the flat or near flat fretboard radius, and extremely awkward tuner arrangement (like the Sandberg 5er's G tuners, see below) I think it was a 4 from the start - but without the knowledge to execute it properly. I agree The neck is too wide or the strings are too close together.



P.S. I hate tuners that angle away from the player! I can cope with it on fender 4 in-line style headstocks because I'm used to it now.

[Happy Jack]

The only thing about this bass that really struck me was the sheer thickness of that body - God alone knows how much that thing weighs.

As to the headstock, it looks to me to have been inspired by Shergold and Hayman.

[scojack]

Not good, the closer you look ..the worse it gets.

[adledman]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]"Person who likes basses & woodworking, but never learned guitar setup or guitar building"[/font][/color]

[color=#282828][font=helvetica, arial, sans-serif]or woodworking!! looks like the pickups and rear cavities where chewed out!! still at least there is a lot of room for string bending ha![/font][/color]

[KingBollock]

It looks like there might be so much extra wood on it that it could be whittled down and refined into a proper shape. There's a bass in there somewhere, maybe.