Anyone Know Where I could find an original Bass V?

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 7:53 pm

The Original 5 string bass with 15 frets how much are they worth and where could i find one?

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:13 pm

HOG has a few.
they are pretty fucking pricey.
im thinking like the cheapest i have ever heard of was right around 16,000 or so
i think robroe said that house of guitars in new york had a white one and a blue one or something like that.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:15 pm

wow. i didnt anticipate that price have you ever tried one?

Jagermeister · Post by **Jagermeister** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:19 pm

...Just wait on ebay. Every few months an emaciated body/neck shows up and goes for stupid cheap...

Well maybe not stupid cheap, as you'd still have to find a way to replicate the hardware/pickups etc... But this is Shortscale, and we improvise.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 8:20 pm

cool......... thanks for the help ive been reading up on these but have never seen one for sale

all need is body neck and neck plate and i could make the rest

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 9:37 pm

if you do this, we need mucho pix.
DOEET

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:06 pm

ok if i can get a hold of a body neck and neckplate i could doeet

i could use mustang bass pickups and vol tone and get teh bridge from a 5 string jazz bass.....

and if i cold get a hold of the rest robert(original) could make me a pickguard? please?

and i'll buy slot head tuners for it

if i could get a hold of the body and neck it will be done................. and ill take a cache of pics

Jagermeister · Post by **Jagermeister** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:11 pm

TheDude2112 wrote:ok if i can get a hold of a body neck and neckplate i could doeet

i could use mustang bass pickups and vol tone and get teh bridge from a 5 string jazz bass.....

and if i cold get a hold of the rest robert(original) could make me a pickguard? please?

and i'll buy slot head tuners for it

if i could get a hold of the body and neck it will be done................. and ill take a cache of pics

A Mustang bass pickup would only cover four of your strings... Not that it wouldn't probably still work despite that (hell, Fender just used 6 pole single coils in Musicmaster basses), but you'd probably wind up compromising...

I'd either use half of a Mustang pickup, then cut up and rewind a single coil, or just go with one of the other myriad five string pickups on the market. The same can be said of the bridge; choose at your leisure.

Also, if you're patient and have a hacksaw and files (or better yet, a router), making a pickguard yourself isn't really too much of a task at all. Any good project is a learning experience.

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 28, 2008 10:22 pm

Jagermeister wrote:A Mustang bass pickup would only cover four of your strings... Not that it wouldn't probably still work despite that (hell, Fender just used 6 pole single coils in Musicmaster basses), but you'd probably wind up compromising...

I'd either use half of a Mustang pickup, then cut up and rewind a single coil, or just go with one of the other myriad five string pickups on the market. The same can be said of the bridge; choose at your leisure.

Also, if you're patient and have a hacksaw and files (or better yet, a router), making a pickguard yourself isn't really too much of a task at all. Any good project is a learning experience.

i forgot all about that withhh the pickup so ill have to look for pickups too.
i might try to make my own..... how hard can it be right? it will be my first major project so i should do most of it myself....
cool then i should have it done by july earliest for the parts to turn up and next december at the latest because they might take a while to turn up..
you know what if i cant find pickups then i'll use a 5 string p bass pickup