Wayne’s 40 year old bass build continues.

Back in the mid seventies,when I was just a teenager,we went to see Kiss in concert at the Sydney Showgrounds, and I just wanted a Gean Simmons axe bass. Anyway, I had on old bass laying around and I was working in a timber yard at the time and I just got strait into building it as a mock up for a fancy dress at the local Rollerena skate rink.
As bad as I looked I got first place.
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So,forty years later, after building a couple of Pitbulls, I decided to get it back out and have a go at doing it right for a bit of fun.
Originally it was painted with some rattle cans and having no experience at the time painting,it was pretty bad. All I had left was the body as the neck was badly split and all the hardware was really rusty. I bought a second hand “Musicman” bass from the junk shop for 40 bucks, as it had a cracked neck at the joint I glued and clamped ,good as new. I am reusing all the hardware as well ,so out comes the router for the larger pick-up. The doner guitar was green and with that crappy headstock shape it had to change, it looked like “Gumbie’s” head. It’s got a real nice grainpattern on the fret board.
Some problems repainting the body, as I am using Dulux “Duramax” ,which seems to turn the gum on the back of the masking tape into super glue, but I’m getting there.

Here’s a couple more pictures of my progress.
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I need to respray where the paint was pulled off with the masking tape. I actually used low tac masking tape to stop it from sticking but once I sprayed over the tape it altered the gum on the tape somehow,where the tape didn’t pull off some paint, I still had to get glue remover “Yuck Off” to get the gum of the paintwork. Any ideas would be helpful, I don’t know how to beat this problem.

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A couple of pics of me trying the hardware to see if it looks ok before the respray.

mate you deserved 1st place for that effort!

wicked looking bass too.

Looks awesome.

Playable or not, I'll give a 100% score for image factor.

Brywithay ( Bryan ) a member on here we haven't seen for a long time was doing one of these as well.

The big question is though, can you still fit in the costume? ;)

Unfortunately Simon, that’s a no go with the middle age spread, but no matter the roller skates still fit.
It should be playable once its wired up,all depends on my soldering skills and my ability to read the wiring diagram as the donor guitar had two tone, and two volume pots which I’m only using one of each.
The journey continues.

Never mind. I'm pretty sure Gene's put on a bit of weight since then as well. :)