Well I converted an Ibanez GAXB into an eight string bass

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A few weeks ago I made myself the owner of the Carcass of an Ibanez GAXB medium scale bass which came without pickups and any kind of hardware and it has a chip of finish missing at the lower bout of the body. In short I had bought myself THE perfect mod platform. And it only set me back 50 Bucks.

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A GAXB as the model should look when in perfect shape which mine OBVIOUSLY wasn't.

To get this Ibby playable again I routed the pickup cavity so it would accept a P-Bass pickup but not just any P-Bass pickup: a Magnetics P-Bass pickup. Which I wired to EMG electronics. I then installed the Bridge of a Guild Starfire which I had lying around and put on a mis-match of tuners to make it a playable bass.
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And with the bass in this state I actually used it in the studio. This clip is one of the songs I used it on.


But because I'm the kind of guy who wants his instruments to be dependable, I couldn't live with the none adjustable bridge so it just had to go. And while I was at it I also substituted the mish-mash of tuners for a matched set of Gotoh's which improved the bass greatly.
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And just the other day I stumbled across a Schaller Bridge for an Eight string bass and being a big fan of Doug Pinnick I figure that I would convert my Ibby into an Eight string bass. So I drilled the headstock for four guitar tuners and fitted the bridge and this is the result.

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As you can tell there's a little "Whoops" at the tuner of the octave G-string.

And here's a soundfile on which I played it. I played a little Kings-X style rock based on "It's love" the guitar is my SG/Telecaster Hybrid which is my main guitar for recording since it's so versitile. The Drums are MIDI.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/pbsm3a