1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:04 pm
+1 That's a great restoration from the water-damaged situation it once was.woodyng wrote:Major Awesomeness!!
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Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 3:20 pm
That's absolutely wonderful Sepp - another wounded soul of a bass is restored and returned to life (and hopefully active duty?)
Ash
Ash
Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 4:54 pm
Just got these from Larry. She is finished and will be making the trk home next week. Ash, yes this bass will be gigged! If she playes half as well as my Walnut 4002, she will be my "go to bass"!
Sepp
Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:31 pm
Dayum!
Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:40 am
Congratulations Sepp for having the guts to have her brought back from the dead!
Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 8:43 am
Sepp that bass is Gorgeous!
Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:03 pm
Tony,
Guts?? Nah, I nearly fainted when I saw the neck split into three parts!
I purchased this on a whim. I was hoping it could be salvaged and for quite a while, it was "touch and go". I really did not know if it was a box of parts or a potential instrument.
Like I've said before, there are a handful of craftsmen capable of "pulling this off" but Larry was really the only man for the job. He tanks me for allowing him to resurrect this instrument but he has that backward. All the thanks goes to him!
"Fawkes" as Larry's wife named her, is on her way home to me as I type this. For the record "Fawkes is the Phoenix that Proff. Dumbledore (Harry Potter) housed in his study. This instrument, like the Phoenix, rose from the ashes with style!!
Sepp
Guts?? Nah, I nearly fainted when I saw the neck split into three parts!
I purchased this on a whim. I was hoping it could be salvaged and for quite a while, it was "touch and go". I really did not know if it was a box of parts or a potential instrument.Like I've said before, there are a handful of craftsmen capable of "pulling this off" but Larry was really the only man for the job. He tanks me for allowing him to resurrect this instrument but he has that backward. All the thanks goes to him!
"Fawkes" as Larry's wife named her, is on her way home to me as I type this. For the record "Fawkes is the Phoenix that Proff. Dumbledore (Harry Potter) housed in his study. This instrument, like the Phoenix, rose from the ashes with style!!
Sepp
Re: 1977 4002 restoration project
Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:39 am
This instrument is now for sale in the market place section!