12 years ago, I wanted a bass VI, and there were no options other than Fender’s custom shop or vintage at the time. I could afford neither. This was before the Squier and the Pawn Shop models were released. I decided to build one. I started collecting parts, had all the parts by around 2012 but then I bought a house, had kids, went back to school and basically the project went on the back burner. This year I decided to do a quickie paint job with Krylon satin Sea Glass on the unfinished body and yesterday I assembled and wired it up.
The body (and pickguard) was made by Cooterfinger, it’s one piece alder. It deserves a better paint job than the one I gave it because it’s a really nice body. I’ll do a proper finish on it one day (retirement project?). Neck is from a Pawn Shop VI that I bought from eBay. Plates were made by Stereordinary. Trem is AVRI, and the bridge is a Staytrem VI. Pickups are Fender (AVRI in the neck and middle, Classic Player Jaguar in the bridge).
I wired it up like stock, except that I initially put the strangle switch capacitor on the tone knob and vice versa (I need glasses
). I corrected that today and now everything is perfect. This thing is really fun to play, and sounds fantastic! I’m glad to have finally finished it!