Cool basses SGD! Are you going to keep the mudbucker in that one bass? The size of that route looks like it might have been for one of the big-uns from the mid-60s.
I'm thinking I'm going to put the toaster back in. It was a NOS mudbucker that I picked up somewhere. It had the full frame and was adjustable for height, unlike the mudbucker in my EB-2 that was just the pickup sitting in the rout. It removed so much wood that the neck shifted a little and raised the action slightly. The bass also had a larger pickguard on it at one point.
It sounded really cool with the mudbucker, but now I want to restore the bass to stock. I miss having a working Rick, and want that vintage 4001 tone. Since the Rick's not my main bass anymore, I don't need it to do more than what it does. Unfortunately I lost some parts when we moved last time. So I have the split tailpiece for it, but don't have the bridge itself. The bridge for the newer basses does not fit into the older tailpiece. I'll either have to stick the newer bridge/tailpiece on, a Hipshot, or make a new bridge unit.
The Mapleglo bass had more extensive mods done; I filed in the routs to make it into something like a 4004, before there were any 4004s. But I thought it would look cool without a pickguard. So I filled in the routs and started to glue maple veneer on the top. I had also converted it to a lined fretless. It has an interesting fingerboard that looks like tulipwood. I'm not sure how I'm going to fix it. I might remove the body wings from the neck shaft and make new ones from figured maple to match the neck.
The dumb things you do when you are young...