when i got the bass, it had been refinished in red nitro, had a nice crack on the top, and the outline of the pg was traced into the nitro (WTF?). excuse shitty cell phone pics.
the neck had those dinky little triangle tuners on it, and rather than buy the ones astro bought, i bought some AXL bullshit jackoff p-bass slotheads from ebay. i just figured "all bass tuners are similar size, right?" WRONG.
the tuners i got were easily 1/4" more in radius. so, return? nah. drill the holes out? sure.
turned out really good, except they're a tad out of line. but will work fine for a $100 guitar.
i couldn't get any stripper to take the paint off, so i just sanded it down, and filled all the holes with a bamboo skewer. i went over the blems with plasticwood, and primed the shit out of it. looked really great, but didn't take pics for some silly reason.
tonight i finished priming and 320'd the last bit of turds, and shot that bitch with rustoleum gloss in some sort of daphne blue. will be auto-cleared once i get the base finish right.
those pics are in bad lighting, but really looks more like this:
will basically look like this when i'm done, except maple neck, white hot rail, and one vol pot, (hidden tone pot for safety lulz) and maybe a thumb rest:
may try to find a mm neck at some point (missed a 76 in june for $100). i'll use this thread to post more progress.
let me know if i've done some misdeeds here...
