Fenderbird, hand painted cow print with emg ta set - *WITHDRAWN* £300 Mansfield

[Gank Bass]

Kinda testing the water here as I'm not 100% sure if I'm ready to part ways with it

 

The body is from a Westfield brand thunderbird, the neck from a Harley Benton jazz. All hardware is decent quality and the pickups are the emg tom araya set. 

 

Reason for the possible sale is it weighs a fair bit compared to my jazz basses and for 2-3 hour wedding gigs it's not ideal. 

 

Comes with a very well padded Ritter thunderbird gigbag.

 

I'll get some proper photos taken if there's any interest, the image I've used is just cropped from my band's Instagram page 

Edited 17 hours ago by Gank Bass

[Sparky Mark]

It's that old conundrum; what came first, interest or photos?

[Piers_Williamson]

I think you could have at least had a cow-print scratch-plate!

[alyctes]

That's gloriously bonkers

 

I'm going to hijack the thread briefly (sort of) and ask what the fit of body and neck was like (yes, I have a project in mind; yes, it might involve this body with a different neck).  Did it need any adjustment/shims, packing etc.?

Thanks!

Edited March 30 by alyctes

[Gank Bass]

I had to modify the neck pocket to accommodate the different scale length.

 

Can't remember if I put any shim in underneath to be honest! When I do I tend to be very sparing with it and let the truss rod and bridge do the bulk of the work. Plays great 👍

 

 

7 hours ago, alyctes said:

That's gloriously bonkers

 

I'm going to hijack the thread briefly (sort of) and ask what the fit of body and neck was like (yes, I have a project in mind; yes, it might involve this body with a different neck).  Did it need any adjustment/shims, packing etc.?

Thanks!

 

[itu]

This bass reminds me that playing should be fun - mostly it is. I love that painting.

[alyctes]

2 hours ago, Gank Bass said:

I had to modify the neck pocket to accommodate the different scale length.

 

Can't remember if I put any shim in underneath to be honest! When I do I tend to be very sparing with it and let the truss rod and bridge do the bulk of the work. Plays great 👍

 

 

 

Thank you very much.  Any more pics?

Edited Sunday at 10:51 by alyctes

[Gank Bass]

8 hours ago, alyctes said:

Thank you very much.  Any more pics?

My plan to get it out of storage for photos were put on hold by a very angry teething baby but I'll have some time to tomorrow morning before work 👍

[Gank Bass]

Photos as promised!