Fenderbird build, reverse or non-reverse?

[gearHed289]

Nice. Looks like a Geddy Lee Fenderbird. "Fly by night away...."

OK, I'll stop....

[sniper]

looks good with the PG.   prolly look good w/o it too. nice work.

[godofthunder]

Looks really cool, bet it will sound great !

[ramone57]

the paint looks great, blazer.  I wouldn't put a guard on it either.

[Chris P.]

No pickguard or an even smaller one tha the artist impression.

But:  A great job!

[drbassman]

I love the look of that paint job!  No pick guard would be a good too!  I'm fond of that look....................

[gearHed289]

Wow! Whose is that? Haven't seen it before. I'm usually not a fan of natural blond finishes (just natural blonds...), but that looks nice. What kind of wood is that?

[drbassman]

Wow! Whose is that? Haven't seen it before. I'm usually not a fan of natural blond finishes (just natural blonds...), but that looks nice. What kind of wood is that?

That's my all maple 60's NR reproduction.  I don't want to hijack this thread though.  I'd you'd like to see more of it, I'll start another thread with more pics.

Just making my case for no pickguard!   

[poomwah]

Greco did some flipped reverse bodies.


I saw this recently that I thought was cool

A Espirt 4 bass

wow, reversed or not, I think what really looks great on those is the angled "ridges"

[shadowcastaz]

It came out awesome! Id vote for guardless.

[drbassman]

Hey, you don't need no stinking pick guard!   

[Blazer]

And that's the way I finished it, without the guard.

When I took it to a Slavantas rehearsal, our bassplayer Adrian remarked that it looked "Really Motley" sleek, like one of Nikki Sixx' custom spector basses.

But when putting the bass together I discovered a little f*** up...


I screwed up the pickup allignment with the position of the bridge and neck. And that means that I have to re-rout the pickup cavity or fit a smaller sized pickup. It means extra work and I made this bass to be sold and I can't put a bass with such a screw up for sale, It'll damage my name as a builder.

The upside is that it plays like a dream and it sounds like a grand piano, it really has that T-bird power happening with that big honking pickup and all the strings have even output besides not alligning properly with the pole pieces.


So Chris P if you're still into buying it from me, I can make you a good price because of my screw up, or you can wait until I rectify that mistake and buy it on the original asking price.

[Chris P.]

Blazer, I like your bass, but at the moment I just don't have the money:(

[Blazer]

Well you guys it took a while but I finally can call the build of my Fenderbird finished.


The pickup sits in the right spot and I actually had to give the pickup a backcover 'cause if you can recall...


...it was open on the back, making it nearly impossible to put foam underneath in order to make it height adjustable.


So now the bass is fully playable and has cool growling sound due to it's mahogany body, P-bass type pickup and Maple neck.

And as you can tell by this picture it's also a fingerprint magnet.


And I'm putting it up for sale as well, anyone who's interested please feel free to contact me.

[Bass VI]

Looks Great!

Don't feel bad about the p/u route, both of these were supposed to be righthanded !!!!!