The body had also been routed or chiseled out for some kind of pickup modification - which was going to have to be filled with a mahogany block and re-routed.ĭavid wanted the bass set up as a Thunderbird 2 - with a single pickup, which I could conveniently copy from one of my Thunderbird 2's. It was obvious that the headstock had been badly broken - and split - sometime in the past, and then doweled and glued together - but apparently the bass had suffered another fall that this time smashed the neck joint, though the headstock stayed together. There is no glue holding the pieces together in the lower picture. However, very little of the original wood was actually missing - and the pieces could be put together - kind of like a jigsaw puzzle. Plus he knows that I'm a big fan of the non-reverse Thunderbirds and Firebirds and I've rebuilt a few of each over the years.ĭavid acquired this poor poor 'bird from our fellow bass freak Joe out in the Chicago area - Joe had acquired it from parts unknown some time ago, but gave up on having it rebuilt and passed the project onto David - who actually simply had Joe send it to me.Īs you can see - the neck of the bass was in several pieces - and the fretboard had been somewhat roughly removed - which dislodged an additional piece of wood lower on the neck. I guess he wanted to challenge me with this project !! This is a project for a client - my friend David from New York, who owns the Guild Starfire Bass I refinished in natural mahogany last year. This is one of the most ambitious rebuild projects I have undertaken yet - perhaps THE most ambitious - and it remains to be seen how it works out in the end.
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