prowla Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 ...or maybe not. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Maple-set-neck-S-Pickard-British-made-bass-guitar-project/193632415552 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 Interesting neck design Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean-Luc Pickguard Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Jack Posted August 21, 2020 Share Posted August 21, 2020 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?" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 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. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted August 22, 2020 Author Share Posted August 22, 2020 Schaller bridge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted August 22, 2020 Share Posted August 22, 2020 36 minutes ago, prowla said: Schaller bridge? Yep, would be a 3D if it still had saddles! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted August 23, 2020 Author Share Posted August 23, 2020 9 hours ago, Bassassin said: Yep, would be a 3D if it still had saddles! That's to balance out it having no nut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleabag Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 Thats about as attractive as an Albanian toilet. What were they thinking 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yorks5stringer Posted August 23, 2020 Share Posted August 23, 2020 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectoremg Posted August 24, 2020 Share Posted August 24, 2020 Prototype Wal? 😁 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prowla Posted August 31, 2020 Author Share Posted August 31, 2020 It's vaguely like, or (un)inspired by, a Rickenbacker 3000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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