How does one end up with this?

[exiledarchangel]

I would call that "sweet drivin'".

[drbassman]

No need for mahogany, here's the latest material for making car parts: coconut husks 

Sounds promising.  Porsche used a fiber based interior liners on there cars in the 60's. The only problem was moisture.  It tended to trap it and cause the floorboards to rot out.  Very nasty when they dropped out on the highway at 70 mph and left your feet dragging on the pavement!!!  I had to cut out and replace the entire floor and back seats on my 68 project.  What a mess.  I'll be using high density foam this time around.

[Barklessdog]

One of my old college professors had a big mahogany inboard motor boat from the 1930's or 40's??, that he restored, it was an amazing. He spent years and lots of $$$ restoring it.

[Dave W]

Mahogany boats are high maintanance. Old ones were cheap ten years ago. Not now.

[nofi]

wow, some old memories there. i spent my youth watching many of those type boats zip by my house on the hudson river.

[Stjofön Big]

This might - as Dr Bassman pointed out earlier on in this thread, though without me fully understanding it - be the head to the good doctor built earlier on! How did I find that out? Well, boys and girls, I realized that I've been part of this forum for exactly one year today, January 11th! That is about the time the forum started out, right? So I went back, as any good schoolar should do, to the beginning..... (almanack pages flying in the wind)... and what did I find? This!!!: http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=15.0
Enjoy! The divide into small groups for discussion the phenomenon, and so on...






http://bassoutpost.com/index.php?topic=15.0

[drbassman]

It would be funny if it were the original headstock form my NR.  Maybe if I had just waited a year or so for it, I could have grabbed it off eBay.  Anyway, I'm happy with the bass as it is.  In fact, the one thing I forgot to do on mine was stamp a serial number into the back of the headstock.  Someday, when I don't have anything to do, I might just put a number on it for fun and refinished the back of the headstock.  Either way, it is one fine bass and one of my favorites to play.

[Dave W]

Yes, it is our first anniversary today.   

[the mojo hobo]

You might have to contact the seller to verify the headstock connection. I won a previous auction for the pickups from this bass. This headstock was pictured with the pickups, saying that was the reason for the sale. I also got the control cavity shiels and thumbrest.

Of course he might have had parts from multiple basses.

[godofthunder]

 Hey Bill I am bidding on it, I thought you were joking about it belonging to your bass. If it goes to your bass and you want it i'll back off the auction.

[drbassman]

Yes, it is our first anniversary today.   

Happy Anniversary!  Let's have cake and champagne!

[Dave W]

Happy Anniversary!  Let's have cake and champagne!

None of that handy. I'm settling for bacon and coffee.

[drbassman]

You might have to contact the seller to verify the headstock connection. I won a previous auction for the pickups from this bass. This headstock was pictured with the pickups, saying that was the reason for the sale. I also got the control cavity shiels and thumbrest.

Of course he might have had parts from multiple basses.

Actually, I know it isn't from my bass.  I was just kidding!   If you look at my avatar, that's how my NR looked when I got it.  It had been repainted 4-5 times in various colors, one of which was pink.  The headstock, I'm sure, was repainted each time the body was as the paint went all the way up the neck right to the break point.  So, this unmolested headstock really couldn't be from mine.  Sure made for interesting conversation though!

Good luck Scott, I'm not bidding on it!  

[Barklessdog]

I'm settling for bacon and coffee.

Yummmm bacon & coffee, nature,s candy.


Happy anniversary and I will celebrate in a similar fashion, as part of my new years diet pledge.

[uwe]

If Scott plants it in his garden once springtime arrives and gives it lots of water, sun, love and care, maybe it'll grow into a full TBird again?

Alternatively, do we still have some of that serum the Lizard used in the Spiderman comics to regrow its arm? It would then be one nasty and angry-sounding TBird, all in green!

Uwe