What a lovely custom bass...

[prowla]

...or maybe not.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maple-set-neck-S-Pickard-British-made-bass-guitar-project/193632415552

[TheGreek]

Interesting neck design

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Some 'interesting' design decisions have been made. The close up of where the fingerboard meets the body looks rather scrappy.

I wonder whether it has a truss rod

[Happy Jack]

That's the most bitsa'd Bitsa I can recall seeing recently.

"Look, I seem to have all these leftover bits following my mucking about during Lockdown ... I wonder if I could combine them all in one bass?"

[Bassassin]

Looks like that could only ever have an unadjustably high action - the neck's set flat, like a bolt-on but without the ability to shim it to tweak the angle, and the fretboard's only about 5mm above the height of the body. You'd never get the saddles low enough for a particularly playable action - and if you look at the bridge, the roller saddles have been removed to try & make it a fraction lower, for that reason. I also suspect that's why it's not wearing strings for its photoshoot.

Does look like whoever made it has some moderate woodworking ability, even if they haven't thought the design through. And I do wonder if that vast, ugly scratchplate is original, and if not, what routing disasters it's concealing.

Bonus bitsa points for the 70s round-end MIJ Jazz pickup.

[prowla]

Schaller bridge?

[Bassassin]

36 minutes ago, prowla said:

Schaller bridge?

Yep, would be a 3D if it still had saddles!

[prowla]

9 hours ago, Bassassin said:

Yep, would be a 3D if it still had saddles!

That's to balance out it having no nut.

[fleabag]

Thats about as attractive as an Albanian toilet.

What were they thinking

[yorks5stringer]

One of the problems setting the neck so deep into the body is that you run out of space for the bridge...looks like it is overhanging the body?

[spectoremg]

Prototype Wal? 😁

[prowla]

It's vaguely like, or (un)inspired by, a Rickenbacker 3000.