Pelham Blue (Bird) of Happiness

Bass VI · January 29, 2008, 12:28:55 AM

Well it's done.........
Most significant observation.....the two-point bridge and tailpiece do add to the sustain, not entirely suprizing, but a very cool side effect! One question.........Gold knobs or Black?

Before

During

After/Now

Woo-Hoo!!

TBird1958 · January 29, 2008, 12:36:28 AM

WoW!

That........ is fantastic Scott! Like I said, when you've got the time I'll send you mine. Jeez that's great! Nice work. FWIW I like the gold knobs on it.

OldManC · January 29, 2008, 03:21:33 AM

Outstanding! I need to do that with my white '76 (it's got a Badass now).

uwe · January 29, 2008, 05:14:37 AM

Gold knobs - it's more sixties and goes well with the purdy pelham.

Barklessdog · January 29, 2008, 06:08:26 AM

Stunning job. Birds look so cool in colors. It makes you want one in every color, like Marks.

doombass · January 29, 2008, 05:19:52 PM

Very nice bird! Great job on that one. How did you remove the old finish?

Nocturnal · January 29, 2008, 05:53:45 PM

Great job on that bass!!! Looks fantastic!! I'd go with gold knobs to make it look more vintage.

Dave W · January 29, 2008, 06:12:59 PM

Excellent!

Black knobs.

PWV · January 29, 2008, 06:14:36 PM

Great work - that looks awesome! (I say Gold knobs... )

chromium · January 29, 2008, 08:55:20 PM

What did you use to flatten that area under the bridge in order to make room for that veneer that you grafted on? Router? Did doing the veneer turn out to be easier than dowelling the holes from the old bridge? The whole 2-point mod is awesome. That whole thing came out really good!

P.S. I like the gold knobs.

Bass VI · January 29, 2008, 09:59:54 PM

Quote from: doombass on January 29, 2008, 05:19:52 PM
Very nice bird! Great job on that one. How did you remove the old finish?

I used "Aircraft Remover" ( which also rids the entire area of stray aircraft ) the low odor version is not too horrible to work with, although it will destroy any plastic such as binding or the T-birds' headstock overlay.

Quote from: chromium on January 29, 2008, 08:55:20 PM
What did you use to flatten that area under the bridge in order to make room for that veneer that you grafted on? Router? Did doing the veneer turn out to be easier than dowelling the holes from the old bridge? The whole 2-point mod is awesome. That whole thing came out really good!

P.S. I like the gold knobs.

I used a router and a jig I fashioned to remove the raised center section from the bridge pickup route to the edge. I did dowell the three-point holes and then rebuilt the center section with a piece of mahogany from a very unfortunate '59 Martin ( long story ) in the past I have found that "plugged" holes tend to eventually show through the finish.

Quote from: Dave W on January 29, 2008, 06:12:59 PM
Excellent!

Black knobs.

Gold knobs it is!

Thank you to everyone for all the compliments, I just need to get a bird for the pickguard and I'll call it done. As mentioned earlier, the bridge/tailpiece combo does seem to increase the sustain a bit compared to my other Orv.

Scott

Chris P. · January 30, 2008, 01:41:23 AM

Very, very, very nice! Love the bridge. If I have some spare money I'll think about them for my Bird and SG RI.

And gold controls!

godofthunder · January 30, 2008, 04:34:51 AM

Droooooooooooooooooooool !

drbassman · January 30, 2008, 05:45:15 AM

Wow, that turned out great!

I agree with you onthe plugged holeds. I have found that whenever I do a fill or graft of some kind, the eventual lines that show up from the nitro shrinkage can be minimized if you fill the edges of your patch with thick super glue and sand it back. There just isn't much shrinkage with that. I did it on the 60 NR I grafted a new headstock onti and I can't find the seam at all.

Gold knobs would be cool on this!

Maybe I should do this with the 2003 TB carcass I have sitting in my shop.

Granny Gremlin · January 30, 2008, 12:06:52 PM

Looking good dude!