Anybody know what this used to be?

[lemmywinks]

Thought Hohner B Bass at first but it's PJ and the shape is different, I think whoever is responsible for this really wanted one of those!:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BASS-Guitar-in-green-this-is-the-AND-in-rock-N-roll/253952871655?hash=item3b20c54ce7:g:wqMAAOSwtmZb1KaU

 

Quite an entertaining and honest description from the seller anyway which makes a change.

Edited October 31, 2018 by lemmywinks

[2x18]

Headstock looks very much like a Yamaha Motion bass I used to own

[TheGreek]

Love the "headless" tuners and bridge..

Edited October 31, 2018 by TheGreek

[Happy Jack]

Not sure I've seen a BBOT bridge in such agony before.

 

[oldslapper]

I think it used to be a functioning bass guitar. 

[mentalextra]

Beautiful solution to covering the truss rod adjustment hole?

[lemmywinks]

To be honest you can buy the headless bass bridge and nut kits for £25-£30 on AliExpress so this might make a nice Hohner The Jack copy project for someone up for a bit of Steinbuggery, especially as it should go for a very low price. With a bit of elbow grease you might end up with a presentable through neck underneath all that green marker pen.

Edited October 31, 2018 by lemmywinks

[yorks5stringer]

I see it's missing a knob.....

[dyerseve]

15 minutes ago, yorks5stringer said:

I see it's missing a knob.....

That'sthe least of its problems, look at the frets! They look like metal noodles placed by Stevie Wonder!!!

[lemmywinks]

31 minutes ago, dyerseve said:

That'sthe least of its problems, look at the frets! They look like metal noodles placed by Stevie Wonder!!!

Hahaha I didn't see that, some of them don't even reach the edge of the fretboard! 

[lemmywinks]

Also just noticed the neck is cracked near the truss rod, on the plus side it has a set of Schallers:

 

[AndyTravis]

Body looks a bit like a Palm Bay...but not done well...

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

The body wings appear to be made from B&Q knotty pine. It looks like a first attempt at putting together an eight string before realising that it didn't work & giving up on it.

[lemmywinks]

Well someone's stuck a bid on it. Own up, which one of you was it?

[Bridgehouse]

Is the fretboard made of cork??!!

[BassTool]

....are the machine heads the wrong way round? 🤔

[lemmywinks]

Just now, BassTool said:

....are the machine heads the wrong way round? 🤔

Did you expect them to be the right way round? Look at it FFS!

Looks like the holes for the machine heads are too wide and have been plugged with some sort of rubber ferrule. 

[alyctes]

On 31/10/2018 at 19:11, yorks5stringer said:

I see it's missing a knob.....

Taking the picture, I expect.

[fleabag]

On 31/10/2018 at 14:51, 2x18 said:

Headstock looks very much like a Yamaha Motion bass I used to own

Sort of.   The headstock on this hideous green alien is flat, whereas the Motion B's were raised in the middle on the outside and concave underneath, as you might remember

 

 

[BreadBin]

I don't think it used to be anything apart from cheap timber. 

Built by someone who thinks they know how, but clearly doesn't. The tuners and pickups are the only parts worth anything. 

[lemmywinks]

The woodworking required to build a through neck bass from scratch doesn't quite tally with the hack job that is the rest of it though, if it is hand built I would be surprised if the same person did the botched 8 string conversion.

[BreadBin]

It's the wierd fingerboard amongst other things, who makes it wider at the dusty end like that?

[Baxlin]

Might be worth twenty quid just to see it in the flesh?

Then chop the top off to below the break, lose one fret, sort the truss rod (is there one?), and make it look like a headless.

I’m tempted.

Then maybe not.

Edited November 2, 2018 by Baxlin

[lemmywinks]

57 minutes ago, Baxlin said:

Then chop the top off to below the break, lose one fret, sort the truss rod (is there one?), and make it look like a headless.

 

The neck is cracked below the nut though, still fixable but turns it into a more complicated job. Also on closer inspection the Schallers are missing the ferrule/nut assembly too - looks like generic machine nuts on the front of the headstock and metal washers on the back - so what little value was there just got even less!

 

It's a dog but at least the seller is honest in the description. This is the type of project I find most interesting though, lets face it if you're nearby and could collect it would be worth sticking a tenner on just for fun.

Possibly.

Edited November 2, 2018 by lemmywinks

[Hellzero]

It's written in the description : handcrafted for firewood.