Fenderbird, hand painted cow print with emg ta set - *WITHDRAWN* £300 Mansfield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 April 4 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 March 30 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!