Brooks Fenderbird

[Basvarken]

I have been busy this weekend. Today two more Brooks bass guitars were born.

About a year ago I was approached by a former fellow student of my brother. His passion is woodworking and in particular collecting tools, such as very exclusive planes, chisels, rasps, etc.
Now he had bought a very nice CNC mill a while ago. And he was looking for a nice project to play around with.
Anyway, we decided to make a complete bass guitar together with that CNC-machine. I would give him all the dimensions and specifications and he would make the 3D files.

Together we went to my local wood supplier to select rough planks of mahogany and maple.
I bought the hardware and electronic components.
And two months ago - after countless samples of scrap wood- two bodies and two necks were ready to be processed into a bass guitar.
I glued the fingerboard to the neck, tapped in frets, lacquered, sanded and polished it.
Filled the pores of the body. Lacquered, sanded and polished that one.
Then mounted everything.

Today they were finally finished.
The funny thing is that it is absolutely no less work than making it yourself by hand. Only if there is a series production, then all the efforts will be able to bear fruit.


The Brooks Fenderbird (Jufferschans Edition)

- Mahogany body
- Brooks all maple P-bass neck
- Fiesta Red finish
- EY Guitar Thunderbird humbuckers
?- 34" scale
- Bone nut
?- Wide travel Thunderbird bridge plus tailstop. Nickel
- Black three ply pickguard
- Gotoh Res-o-lite  GB528 tuners
- Gotoh extra large strapbuttons. Nickel
?- CTS potentiometers
- Silver reflector cap knobs
- Switchcraft output jack
- Rotosound RS66LDN strings
- Weight: 4.3 kg











Twins!

[BTL]

Those are awesome...great work!

[Pilgrim]

They're a Tour de'Fenderbird!

[wellREDman]

lovely

[gearHed289]

Turned out great. 

[morrow]

Beauties!

[TBird1958]

Rob, they look fantastic!

[Basvarken]

Here's a short video demo of the Brooks Fenderbird

[Grog]

Looks & sounds awesome! Congrats!!

[godofthunder]

   Beautiful work as always Rob!

[Basvarken]

About last night:
The other day I was approached by Jimi Crutchley (Quireboys) regarding the Brooks Fenderbird I had built.
He is on a world tour as tour manager with Glenn Hughes. And yesterday the caravan visited De Boerderij in Zoetermeer for Glenn's Deep Purple show. Which is only an hours drive from where I live.
Jimi invited me to the soundcheck to put the Brooks Fenderbird through its paces, over Glenn's bass system.

Jimi turns out to be a huge John Entwistle fanatic. And for years he had been looking for a good Fenderbird like the one Peter Cook built for John Entwistle. He had previously bought one from another builder, but that one was very disappointing.
Jimi is very happy that he has finally found a good Fenderbird!

[gearHed289]

That's great. Matches the amps! 

[BTL]

What a great story, congratulations!