JB-4

[Bass Guy]

Finished in Surfer Girl with silver highlights.

Upgrades- pearloid pickguard, defretted

[Brendan]

My JB-4M here rather than start a new thread - only difference is maple neck.

Changes
- pickguard changed for a blue mirror pickguard;
- pots, caps and jack upgraded to CTS / orange drops / switchcraft;
- heavy bridge installed and recessed;
- dots replaced with black MOP and
- bone nut installed.

[Brendan]

Headstock and neck (neck prior to any work to show the level of grain visible).

[Tadeo]

heres my JB I loved building it. It's all stock parts and in DT Karijini red. With the neck in mission beach.

[kasei]

Here is a JB-4L (left-hand) completed last week for my daughter - we were pretty frustrated by the lack of options locally for a lefty bass. She was playing bass lines upside -down and back to front on my right handed bass, which was pretty clever but drove me crazy to look at (I'm southpaw too, but learned to play right handed -which is my excuse for being no good!). This was all the excuse I needed to try building a kit, which is something I've wanted to do for some time. I've always liked the jazz-style bass, but have never owned one, so that led to the choice of the JB-4L.

It's all stock, apart from the strings (and one bridge screw, which I managed to lose), and came together pretty well. Finishing was the main challenge - where we are in NZ there was no chance of getting guitar-specific finishes shipped to us, so the main colour coat is a Briwax blue timber dye, with multiple coats of both (home-made) wipe-on and spray-can poly. I found that lightly sanding (400) between finish coats was a big help.

The headstock decal was drawn and scanned onto waterslide paper by my other daughter as her contribution to the build.

[cade711]

Finished in Dingotone Bushfire Sunrise. All PBG kit parts with some visual alterations only.

[Andyxlh]

Here's a JB-A 4 with a 70s block neck. Painted by Macklay Vocational College with artist acrylic and overcoated in Cabots Polyurethane clear, gloss fr front of headstock and body, satin neck. Stock except for clear pickguard to show paint.