I've been wanting to do a replica of the
ORIGINAL JAE Fenderbird for a while. This is one of the few pictures I've come up with, it's from 'Bass Culture'. By the time the book was published he no longer owned any of them
There's this one
and this one from a Who gear site
Here's my recent '2010 Fenderbird
So I got the flock together to mull the options...
If I'm going to do one I might as well set up to do a run of 10. I have this inverted pin router which allows easy repeatability with carefully made templates
I made a tracing of Denis '76 body and bandsawed and smoothed a template from it...with that I made another one.
Used a L.H. Fender Japan p bass neck for neck screw template and a Mighty Mite neck for the pocket template. I was pleasantly surprised by the Mighty Mite quality.
Here's the first effort, basically just a rough idea. What I found is that the JAEbird body is a little different than just a Tbird body with a neck pocket. So it's back to the drawing board.
But I did clean up the shop.