I'm in the process of cleaning up my garage, selling some gear, giving some away and organizing in general. While doing this I came across a stack of bodies I had stockpiled. One of those being a late 80's or early 90's American Fender bass body. It was white at some point and has aged to a creamy yellow color.
I ordered up an AllParts neck, maple with a rosewood board, Fender decal and a lightly relic'd nitro finish. I want this bass to be a cousin to my main P bass, that one has a Gibson Recording Bass pup in it. Since I'm keeping this simple, I ordered a Lace Alumitone P bass pup, it'll drop right in so I won't have to do any routing. I decided to go with a real Fender guard, brown tort as I think the colors will look great together. As for the bridge, I have a Babcicz Full Contact that I scored on a sweet deal. I normally like to use the Badass II bridge, and may switch to that, but I've used a Babcicz on another bass and thought it sounded like the Badass. So why spend $ when I already have a great bridge to put on it? I did have to get a set of Wilkinson tuners, and will try my hand at aging metal parts. Can't decide whether to use an "F" engraved neck plate, or a laser etched one I got off eBay that has a portrait of Frankenstein on it. I'm leaning towards the "F" plate and saving the other for the walnut bass I'm building
That's about it, I don't think I left anything out. The neck will be here Thursday, the rest of the parts will arrive Friday. I'm hoping to get her all together Sunday afternoon when I get up. I work nights and weekends, Wednesday and Thursday are my days off, and I don't think I'll have time before work to do much. I don't like to start a project before working, because I inevitably run out of time. I don't move as fast as I used to, so better to take my time and do it correctly, and not backtrack to fix mistakes I made while in a rush.
I'll get some pics up when I get to working on it. I'm really hoping that this turns out decent! My blue P bass is an absolute monster, but I have it tuned BEAD, and have REALLY wanted another bass that's similar tonewise that I can tune standard or drop D.