The boring stuff first...
'61 Alamo Titan neck (34" scale)
'62-'63ish Kay Speed Demon (guitar!) body
Eastwood P90/Mosrite-style single coil.
Early 60's Valco/Kluson (National/Airline/Supro) trapeze bass tailpiece
Alpha pots
Switchcraft insert.
Period Sprague Bumblebee cap.
Custom-made floating rosewood bridge.
The Fun Stuff
Anyone who follows me on here knows that my favorite bass in the world is the Supro Pocket bass... or any of Valco's short-scale basses, for that matter! Which was where this project began... the idea originally was to "repurpose" a Speed Demon body (probably one of the cheapest American-made vintage body you can find nowadays) to be made into a pocket-scale bass.
I got the body first... and then I got swamped and shelved it. Not long after, I got a "weird" vintage neck off ebay for DIRT... one of those "I have no idea what this is, maybe you do" sort of things... It turned out to be an Alamo Titan bass neck. SCORE! I had no idea what I was going to do with it... so it went on the shelf... and I almost completely forgot about them!
So months later I'm moving, and I come across the two pieces... and I have no idea why it didn't hit me earlier to just make a long-scale, small-bodied bass!
What you see is not entirely the finished product. I still have to slot the bridge properly... but man oh man did I just get impatient!
Even without the pickup the bass is incredibly resonant. I almost wish I installed a piezo in there, too!
The tone is DEEP. REAL deep. Eastwood is definitely doing something right with their bass pickups.
I'm pretty proud of this one. Its shortly going to be in the hands of a buddy of mine in a reggae band called The Forthrights. (Well, that is, if he doesn't buy one of my Pockets instead hahaha...) The band is doing big things, so keep an eye out for them... and my bass!!