My thought would be to get a torch do some burn art on it. If it starts out looking like its been through the apocalypse, you might as well make it look like its been through the apocalypse. (though this one was pretty close to start with)
The Beige Rabbit Ok the gap in the neck, that's really bad, I've got a terrible Satellite for the 70s that even worse than that. For the pickup however, who fucking cares? A pick up is a pickup, why the fuck does it matter that it's for a guitar, it will do that same job, the pole pieces will obviously be out of alignment with the strings but it still works and does it job so who give a shit?
I give a shit . I would never play this bass. a pickup is not just a pickup, they have different types. Put some bike tires on your car.@@wastewoodrockers5526
+craigdamage Yes dude you watch the video then you forget it ever happened. Erase all opinions you had about it from your mind and share them with no one.
I liked it better the way he found it...Should have just clear coated it and buffed it to a mirror shine. Would have been awesome. He should have put a cheap hot rails pickup in it. Would have been more appropriate than a pup designed for 6 strings.
protip: don't string a bass like that. clip the string about 4 inches past the tuner it's going into, then put the string into the hole inside the tuner and tune up to pitch. You'll find it won't slip out of tune
Thats a good idea. What I find gets me a perfect length is to wind around the peg twice the wrong way, then clip it just past the tuning key. Hasn’t failed me yet.
I pull the string taut through the peg, then grab at the nut and pull back about two frets, sometimes 2.5 if the gauge is thick. Then clip at the peg and insert into the hole. That gives me the most consistent amount needed.
Looking back, it probably had a jazz pickup in there, but as a cigar box guitar builder and amateur repair guy, I love the idea of putting just a single coil on it
That is the body and headstock shape that was used when the p bass was created in 1951 up until late 1954/55 when the shape changed to what the p bass has been ever since. The early 50's ones also used a single coil. Sting plays one.
Honestly don’t comment too much on RU-vid, but great job on making your instrument man. 5$ cheap as hell, and you got yourself a bass guitar or of it. Don’t understand why people are getting so butthurt over it. Cool video, keep rocking 🤙🏼
This looks to me like a seventies Ibanez type copy of a fifties Fender p- bass. They call these "tele " bases because they match the 50's telecaster look all fenders had back then. eventually they changed the shape and look to match the Stratocaster when it came out. I can tell it is a cheap copy because 50's Fenders had the truss rod adjustment screw at the other end of the neck against the body. You had to remove the neck to adjust it. This one has a wide cavity and truss rod cover which is what the cheaper Ibanez copies had. The Fender logo is a decal someone put on, you can get those everywhere. Fender didn't do a truss cavity at the headstock until the late '80's maybe? Anyways I would have modded it differently made it look more stock and used a bass pickup. But as long as you like it, it's a cool knock around bass for jamming on.
drumsNstuff79 Spot on. Ibanez Tele bass from the 70's. Not a bad find at all. Interesting enough the standard equipment on this bass was indeed a single coil guitar pickup - a Tele style blade pup with chrome cover.
And this kids, is a precise example as to the difference between a luthier and a dude who knows his tools really well, but is clueless as to the art of guitar building.
Lookout Piano I didn't mean to throw shade. I was just stating a very biased observation 😂 If the goal was to make it "plug-in-able" then sure he saved it. But if that was really anywhere between a 60s to even 80s real Fender telebass he did cripplingly irreversible damage. I think he knows that too though.
I think the damage was done prior to his owning it. It plays now as opposed to it sits in a garage garbage pile. It's a better quality of life for the bass itself. Personally with all that real estate available on it without the pickguard, I'm thinking he could go with a graphic decal and enhance the look 1000 fold.
You're both wrong, it's a Fender Telecaster Bass. They were first released in 1968 but were changed to a humbucker from the single coil in 1972, so this one is 1971 or older. Edit: apparently it's a fake one.
bpwoods97 this is going to sound like a stupid question because I've only owned one acoustic bass in my life, I'm a drummer. But I always thought bases and I understand this is a really old Bass so they might have been made differently, but I always understood of bases being there like plastic and Metal. Am I wrong?
Are you asking me if Bass guitars are made of metal and plastic? The body of the guitar is always wood. The neck is almost always wood, but I believe there are some with aluminum necks. The bridge is always metal (afaik), the pickups are just magnets with casings really.
He's talking about the bridge ground wire, it's used to ground not only the bridge but the strings and tuners also because they can act like a radio antennae and introduce noise into your signal with out being grounded.
Again, he is not talking about the pickup ground, the pickup wouldn't work unless it's ground wire is connected to the jack but there should also be a wire connected to both the jack and the bridge for the reasons I mentioned above.
Man good job making all these people angry! For real I dig the project, this was a fun video to watch, real good vibes, I think people are forgetting the fact that it cost 5 bucks! Good shit dude. Sick beard too.
NeverTheExpert - lol, thanks man! I don’t know why some of them get so mad about my guitar. I love it, and it’s not going anywhere... thanks bro! Take care.
Y’all getting too bent out of shape. He simply set out to prove you can take a mostly gone bass and still make something of it. I thought it was a great video. Anything I didn’t like I can do differently
Yes but if he had done the restoration correctly AKA used the right parts it could’ve been worth so much more than what it’s worth now we are more upset about the fact that he’s lost out on money not that he’s done the restoration wrong
I agree. Its HIS bass, not theirs. Bunch of damned snobby pricks trying to sound authoritative. "But, you didn't use the right pickup!" Its HIS property. "But, you didn't use the right amp" Its HIS property. What part of it being his property to do with as he pleases do they not understand?
+Andy Prokopyk No it wasn't. It had a single coil pickup with 4 magnetic poles made specifically for bass guitars. It wasn't a single coil guitar pickup. Research Fender Precision bass 1951.
Sly yes it was. It's smaller than a 51 p bass pickup. The whole bass was considerably smaller. You can watch this dissection video and see for yourself. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k422DK1w3s4.html If you do a little additional digging elsewhere you'll see the same thing too. Musicmaster basses were low end student guitars, it was considerably cheaper to use a guitar pickup considering how many more they made and how much less wire they used. Adding on to that, Rickenbacker did the same thing back in the day. Toaster pickups had six pole pieces too, one of the most loved bass pickups of all time.
Sly here's a StewMac article that shows it too. www.stewmac.com/How-To/Online_Resources/Learn_About_Guitar_Pickups_and_Electronics_and_Wiring/A_curious_fact_why_the_1970s_Musicmaster_Bass_had_such_a_thin_sound.html
+Andy Prokopyk Well, you're right about the Fender Musicmaster's pickup. It was a 6 pole single coil pickup. But it wasn't the case on the 50's Precision basses which had the 4 pole single coil pickup, the '51 P-Bass or the Split '51P-Bass (2 coils humbucker single spacing fit). That's why I'm saying that indeed it does matter. The Stew Mac article is also mentioning a mod that can be done to the 6 pole pickup to make it half decent for the Musicmaster. But the best way to improve that bass was to switch for the 4 pole bass pickup, whether it was for the split or the standard single coil model. Many people did go with this simple inexpensive mod with their Musicmasters and never looked back. If I can get my hands on a short scale beater like this for cheap I'll go for it. photos.imageevent.com/firstflight/fendermusicmasterbass/websize/MusicmasterBass.JPG I'm a Fender Precision fan. I like the full warm sound of the P-Bass pickups. I never really liked that much the sound of these vintage Rickenbackers which seems to be coming out of a vibrating pipe. Very specific sounding and a bit too narrow and dry for me. It's always subjective when it comes to personal taste though. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rUytW-qFNcw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-b-bUIYML1ZI.html
Firstly, The guitar pickup. Secondly, the way he strung it. Thirdly, MONEY. Not that what he made is a piece of crap or anything, it's interesting, but also I don't think he could've made it any more obvious that he's never touched a bass in his life.
Oh shit! This Brian dude is doing everything wrong - and got a frigging cool result, lol! Goes to show how no junk is beyond a wild imagination! The most crucial part, the neck, is alone worth the bucks used for the lot.
i mean i don't care what you do to it but i am confused why you put a guitar pickup in it you can get a bass pickup for just as cheap. Also in most basses you can put the string inside the tuning pole so it doesn't stick out
Actually, you are thinking of the Musicmaster Bass variant was introduced in the mid-1960s and was originally marketed as a student model. Rather than the split-coil design of the Mustang Bass, it featured a single-coil pickup, which was actually a six-pole Stratocaster guitar pickup under a solid plastic cover. Production ceased around the same time as the Mustang Bass. The Squier Musicmaster Bass was reissued briefly in 1997, however it was discontinued after only one year of production and was ultimately replaced by the Bronco Bass.
I do believe that's a real Fender bass! The stories it could tell! Edit: You're not a musician are you? I'd love to see someone who knows what they're doing restore this.
When I first saw this and I saw the pickup route I was all, “cool! It’s one of those 50’s style telecaster basses!”.....and then then the bondo came out....HaHaHaHa!!!! Seriously tho, the bass looks waaay better than it did before AND it’s playable now so it’s gonna get some use that’s the important part
In theory, the bridge in this hollow body could have been grounded via one of the five mounting screws, but he apparently opted not to ground the bridge.
Why didn´t you put the end of the string inside the whole of the tuning peg? I saw that you you made a knot like the one you would make on a guitar string but I don´t think it will stay in tune that much like that.
Carlos Anaya - These tuning pegs are some weird kind I've never seen before, they don't have a hole... just split open down the middle. I've never had a guitar with that kinda pegs... not sure if I did it right or not. Lol 🤔 thanks man, have a good day!
Hey guys, this is just a normal bass tuning peg. you'd normally cut the string to length and then put it down the middle hole of the peg and wind it around. there are plenty of vids on youtube on how to string a bass.
Which part of ‘I want to fix it in the cheap so I can plug it in when a friend comes round’, who cares if there’s a guitar pick up in it and a cheap bridge. It works and is fit for purpose.
Good enough, since you're not planning to gig with it. I paid $75 for an Ibanez bass that sounds and plays like crap; looks like you gor the better deal. I am surpised how well the guitar pickup works.
William Day to be fair, he said in the video he does not own a bass, so it only follows logically that he does not own a bass amp. And since he said the object was to keep this project cheap, it makes sense that he would not go out and purchase a bass amp
Well you can use a guitar amp with caution, like most things. Some big name rock/metal bands record with guitar amps to give their bass distortion vice layering the bass tracks with simulated distortion
They do. They don't look like this though. Especially at at the nut where the truss cover is missing with 3 screw holes. A Jap Fender does not have a truss rod cover. Do some research and educate yourself. Otherwise, shut the hell up.
You didn’t even put both strap buttons on or intonate it dude the project had potential but you really screwed it up with most of it, I’ve done it too on projects so I’m not trynna be an ass just stating my opinion
To be fair, that's where they originally were located. They were there for your fingers so it'd be easier to play bass "properly" with the side of your thumb.
From what I can tell, he's a hobbyist guitarist. This bass isn't going to get much use, and he did a good job with everything for the purposes he intends to use it for. The only thing I took issue with was the way he strung it up, because it looks like the tuners are the ones you put the string ends in (as most bass tuners are) to avoid the clipping and knotting bs.
I like how you showed tou can make a usable guiyar for cheap! It looks cool! My first electric was an $8 yard sale find. Ugly as a bedbug! A little paint and some hard work and I was jammin! You don't have to spend thousands to have fun!👍😎🎸🎶
Looks like a Tele Bass made a re-issue back in the 2000's but the single coil variation is way older that the humbucker model. They are pretty good basses,Mike Dirnt had one built for him(Fender ) Keith Ferguson ,Dusty Hill and a few others laid down some tone with the Tele Bass,bad ass with a single coil....
That is a sweet find man! Whether it's a genuine Fender or not, who cares? So long as it plays, a bass is a bass is a bass! A bit of Alice In Chains & Floyd too, why not :)
I heard this in the car and he said "The right annotation" and I figured he put something on the screen, then watched it later and he meant INTONATION. 😂😂😁🤘
I bought a bass guitar at a garage sale for $5 too. I had to fix it up of course but when i bought it, it had this terrible skull design on it that someone tried customising. I ended up taking that design off, sanded it down and put fresh wood paint/gloss on it. I believe its a Washburn xb-102, a rare bass guitar that no one makes or sales anymore. I'm more of a guitarist but i always wanted to learn bass.
Dude buys cheap-ass bass guitar at yard sale. Dude builds knock-around bass the way he wants. Tonebois come out of the woodwork to tell him how awful he is and how good they are. ...just wondering why, if they are so good, they've got time to play purity politics on RU-vid. Like seriously, do they even play, bro? Bang up job on that bass, Brian. Much love.
I started on bass so I think I just always maintained more of a bass player attitude,but I enjoy guitar and I now that I am older get to be the rare guitar player who isn't a total jerk.
Scott Pam - that powder coat gun system is a craftsman. You can get it at sears for about $250 - you'll also need an oven you DONT plan to eat out of. (Toaster oven)... best place to buy the powder is eBay by the pound. You'll love it man - get the same finish as your washer or refrigerator at home for cheap. Best of luck, Take care man!
I should send pics of this SG...it's painted by a gentleman who was a furniture maker and it's the worst coat of brown I have ever seen. The edges show that it was once a red....
