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Grey · Post by **Grey** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:17 pm

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/1978-Broken-Nec ... 0715591885

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:26 pm

Ouch!

wim · Post by **wim** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:29 pm

It has a slight backbow

OMG this was someone's project bass, clearly that person needs work too.
Now this is a neck through AND a set neck

cassius987 · Post by **cassius987** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 4:45 pm

wim wrote:Now this is a neck through AND a set neck

Sad but true.

ilan · Post by **ilan** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:03 pm

She's a goner.

Kopfjaeger · Post by **Kopfjaeger** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:04 pm

Yeah, I saw this one on eBay and cringed. How on earth was this type of "fix" employed on this poor instrument?? My favorite foto is the one that sights down the fretboard. That "kink" in the middle is the deal breaker? The "repair" looks like a gnarly battlefield wound inflicted by a close range blast of 00 buckshot or perhaps a Claymore.

What a shame! This one just may be un-saveable after the moron botched the fix.

Sepp

Grey · Post by **Grey** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:08 pm

Kopfjaeger wrote:What a shame! This one just may be un-saveable after the moron botched the fix.

The entire neck looks ruined, fretboard would probably have to be scrapped. There's not much you could really "save" short of separating the body wings and making a completely new neck for it, which might have been worth doing if the guy haden't parted out all the hardware.

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:10 pm

This poor Bass looks like it was used for fighting trench warfare in the First World War ..... are those bullet holes in the neck ?
Very sad !

cjj · Post by **cjj** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 5:20 pm

Grey wrote:
Kopfjaeger wrote:What a shame! This one just may be un-saveable after the moron botched the fix.
The entire neck looks ruined, fretboard would probably have to be scrapped. There's not much you could really "save" short of separating the body wings and making a completely new neck for it, which might have been worth doing if the guy haden't parted out all the hardware.

Yeah, I thought about going for it when I saw it earlier today, then I saw he didn't have any parts or the jack plate...

doctorwho · Post by **doctorwho** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:17 pm

Oh, the humanity ...

geofio · Post by **geofio** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 6:45 pm

oh dear !!!

cassius987 · Post by **cassius987** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:05 pm

This will probably go for a good bit over $100 for some crazed project. If only it would go for less than $100, maybe it could become my crazed project--oh well.

Ontario_RIC_fan · Post by **Ontario_RIC_fan** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:22 pm

It is... or was.. an RC..

8mileshigher · Post by **8mileshigher** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 7:54 pm

Thinking about crazy projects, I wonder if there is enough wood, partial neck and fret-board material there, for someone with a band saw (and a lot of patience) to shape a 3/4 scale size Ric guitar out of the remnants, if they had the hardware, electronics and plastic parts available to them ?

Would the name for such a project be a down-sized 4001-320 model ?

collin · Post by **collin** » Wed Jul 31, 2013 8:02 pm

8mileshigher wrote:Thinking about crazy projects, I wonder if there is enough wood, partial neck and fret-board material there, for someone with a band saw (and a lot of patience) to shape a 3/4 scale size Ric guitar out of the remnants, if they had the hardware, electronics and plastic parts available to them ?

Would the name for such a project be a down-sized 4001-320 model ?

That's not what any reasonable person would do.

Best case scenario would be to remove the body wings from the center block, scrap the entire center block and neck and replace with new wood (shaping a new neck).

Then again, it's not a rare or collectible bass... not sure why anybody would sink that amount of time and money into a project of this magnitude when they can buy a nice one for well under $2K.

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