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Mudfuzz wrote:

IEatCats wrote:Update: I did in fact start bastard building a bass VI because of this thread.

You WILL post picts!

Do you want me to post them now, as an unfinished build? It's still missing 3 tuning heads, two of which have to be drilled into the headstock still.

IEatCats wrote:

Mudfuzz wrote:

IEatCats wrote:Update: I did in fact start bastard building a bass VI because of this thread.

You WILL post picts!

Do you want me to post them now, as an unfinished build? It's still missing 3 tuning heads, two of which have to be drilled into the headstock still.

No when you are done is fine... I just LOVE mangled up instruments

Mudfuzz wrote:

IEatCats wrote:

Mudfuzz wrote:

IEatCats wrote:Update: I did in fact start bastard building a bass VI because of this thread.

You WILL post picts!

Do you want me to post them now, as an unfinished build? It's still missing 3 tuning heads, two of which have to be drilled into the headstock still.

No when you are done is fine... I just LOVE mangled up instruments

I DO TOO! It's a bastard build of a bass I was sent (Achtane, I BELIEVE) and my old monster guitar, with tuners from a peavy bass I never used. I had to hack at the bass neck with a screwdriver and hammer because I don't own wood cutting tools (and I love hacking at wood with a screwdriver and hammer ).

It's a really weird build, and it has (for now) a permanently broken intonation

I'm proud of you, but get a Dremel or something man, your life will be much easier!

He's like the maintenance man for my apartment building, he uses a butter knife to try to fix stuff.

He doesn't even bring his own butter knife though, he always asks to borrow one of mine.

"Got a butter knife I can use for a minute?"

Hmm... I've never thought about putting a Longhorn bass neck on a guitar. There is a potential Mudfuzz VI in my future.

I've built one telecaster in my arsenal. Can't hurt to build a baritone tele!

A friend of mine purchased a vintage EBO ($200) no guts with a snapped headstock because the seller thought even w repair the headstock couldn't bear the load. He glued in 4 dowels, placed a bridge where he pleased and put in a bridge Humbucker and a crazy huge (ebo neck sized)guitar pickup in the neck that was (?)a single blade sandwiched next to a full sized.
I didn't play it far up the neck because those low notes evacuated my fudge tunnel.

Achtane wrote::lol: I'm proud of you, but get a Dremel or something man, your life will be much easier!

Clearly you've never hacked at a guitar body or neck with a screwdriver and hammer until it did what you need. It's so damn fulfilling.

Do any of you know if those 30" scale necks will work with one of the blacktop baritone telecaster bodies that are all up on ebay? I like that they have a larger cavity already drilled, so I could potentially experiment with different pickups more easily. I know those come with a 27.5" scale neck.....buuuuut.....thoughts?

Intonation would be the issue, unless you moved the bridge on it

Depends on the bridge location. If the bridge is the same distance from the neck pocket as a standard 25.5" scale tele, and the 30" neck works with standard teles then yes everything should be kosher, but like everything in life, there's no guarantees.

Yeah, I figured I'd have to move the bridge. But does the intonation on those Mudfuzz VIs you guys are talking about work out ok?

Edit: Oh, and off the tops of your heads....is there a body that you could do an equally pain-less switch for a 27-28.5" scale baritone neck?

This would've been a late edit....sooooo

I'm assuming/wondering if the 28.5" scale necks still fit the 25.5" 21 fretters you guys are talking about because they have 24 frets instead of 21? Make sense?

Warmoth makes 28 5/8" conversion necks that fit a pretty good variety of guitars.

Ja. I'm thinking of putting one on this, unless there's some reason I definitely shouldn't get it. I would change out the pickups for some other I have if I didn't like the blacktops.

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