It had been installed to a couple different bodies in its life and had 2 sets of screw holes. The neck was honestly a bit of a mess, though i forgot to snap some before pics to show just how bad it was. The customer loved the blacked out look of the old black musicmaster basses, but we took it a step further with this faux anodized look, removing the pinstripe around the edges and murdering it out more. With a vintage neck and usable body setting the customer back only $500 or so, we had plenty of budget room to do some cool stuff.ĭecided to fill the pickguard holes and order a WD 70s musicmaster guard. Finding an affordable mustang bass body proved challenging, until i stumbled upon someone selling a rattle-canned squier bronco loaded body for something like $100. We found this 1975 Musicmaster bass neck and ideas started flowing. However this led to me springing a random wild idea on him ready-made shortscale bass necks and bodies are shockingly rare, but i had seen some vintage MM/mustang bass necks for sale online for great deals that needed some tlc and suggested possibly building a partscaster around one of them. We originally planned to refinish/upgrade a squier Vista series musicmaster bass that we found online for a steal, but someone bought it within an hour of us seeing it :/ A previous customer's bandmate reached out to me on instagram wanting to commission a musicmaster/mustang type short scale bass. Recently completed a cool "vintage" build i thought you guys would enjoy seeing.
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