with the new bridge saddles sitting roughly where the bridge p'up was on the Jazz, are you *sure* you're going to get the 30" scale length?

just curious.

"Very courageous, Minister..."

"I think you're being a little pessimistic" perhaps, or it might be that line from Harry Callahan in Magnum Force: "A man's got to know his limitations" and balancing what parts I can do and what would have to be farmed out to experts to "do properly". For me, the heads...

please forgive I wasn't clear, sorry. I meant a Mustang Bass neck - from a Mustang bass that already has a scale length of 30". The only reason to throw away the Mustang Bass body is that the guitar body would already be routed for (and have) pickups for six strings, although you've already pro...

"As for the Mustang Bass headstock, same angle problem I reckon - you'd need to put a tuning peg or two around the end of the curve, since guitar tuners need to be much closer to the edge" there's not a lot of options for necks that already work with a scale length of 30". You're righ...

the bridge

I wonder if the Fender Bass VI had a custom bridge, or whether it came off one of the guitar models?

I wonder how close a Fender Mustang Bass headstock would be?
http://images.google.com.au/images?q=fe ... 0headstock

more of a curiosity than anything else there are 3 Fender Bass VI's over on the US ebay site. one takeaway from the photo's (esp the headstock) is that, while there's a lot of strings at the nut, it looks OK - it makes sense. but with US$2400 price tags, MatthewK's idea of building a frankenstein ba...

neck heavy, eh?

I wonder if it was the heaviness of the neck or lightness of the body?

I ask because I might have sourced a second-hand mustang bass neck. I'll find out more on the weekend.

still, the short-scale Jazz SX could scrub up OK.

@MatthewK

where did you find that second SX bass - the red Fender Jaguar bass look-a-like?

I've been all over the Rondo site like a rash ... can't find it.

"Wrong colour" beauty is obviously in the eye of the beholder. Candy apple/fire engine red could work out well - it wouldn't put me off. In fact, partly because of hiding the downing and redrilling of the headstock for 6 machine heads, I'd be inclined to paint the headstock the same colour...

@Ankhanu I started looking at the Schecter Hellcat VI, but they don't seem to be available in my (and MatthewK's) country. Living on the far side of the world reduces what's available, as MatthewK is finding with Rondo product. @MatthewK thanks for the good explain over on the Fender forums regardin...

@MatthewK PS: I love your photoshopped mock-up. I reckon it looks cute. If it turns out looking like that, I'd have no problem with it. getting back to the neck width at the nut: MatthewK is indeed correct that the spec's say the Fender BassVI's nut is 1.5" (or 38mm), which is what a Rondo SX 6...

I think one trick with the EB-0 to EB-6 conversion, as well as adapting a Squier Bronco or Rondo SX to a BassVI would be pickups. what sort of 6-pole pickups would work that would still allow it to sound like a bass? any guitar pickups? Would they be gutless in the bottom end - all midrange 'n stuff...