+craigdamage Yes dude you watch the video then you forget it ever happened. Erase all opinions you had about it from your mind and share them with no one.
The Beige Rabbit Ok the gap in the neck, that's really bad, I've got a terrible Satellite for the 70s that even worse than that. For the pickup however, who fucking cares? A pick up is a pickup, why the fuck does it matter that it's for a guitar, it will do that same job, the pole pieces will obviously be out of alignment with the strings but it still works and does it job so who give a shit?
I give a shit . I would never play this bass. a pickup is not just a pickup, they have different types. Put some bike tires on your car.@@wastewoodrockers5526
The best intro ever! As a guitar hunter myself I hear you. The joy of getting a crappy guitar knowing the glory you are going to give back to it when restored... Priceless! Well, I'll get back to continue watching the video.
My thought would be to get a torch do some burn art on it. If it starts out looking like its been through the apocalypse, you might as well make it look like its been through the apocalypse. (though this one was pretty close to start with)
I like it!! It reminds me of being 15/16 and not being able to afford anything and skiing it yourself!! Punk rock!! Looks great IMO. Good video. Also the soundtrack in the background when you were putting it back together was a right mix!! 👍
I agree. Its HIS bass, not theirs. Bunch of damned snobby pricks trying to sound authoritative. "But, you didn't use the right pickup!" Its HIS property. "But, you didn't use the right amp" Its HIS property. What part of it being his property to do with as he pleases do they not understand?
protip: don't string a bass like that. clip the string about 4 inches past the tuner it's going into, then put the string into the hole inside the tuner and tune up to pitch. You'll find it won't slip out of tune
Thats a good idea. What I find gets me a perfect length is to wind around the peg twice the wrong way, then clip it just past the tuning key. Hasn’t failed me yet.
I pull the string taut through the peg, then grab at the nut and pull back about two frets, sometimes 2.5 if the gauge is thick. Then clip at the peg and insert into the hole. That gives me the most consistent amount needed.
I liked it better the way he found it...Should have just clear coated it and buffed it to a mirror shine. Would have been awesome. He should have put a cheap hot rails pickup in it. Would have been more appropriate than a pup designed for 6 strings.
I love it when someone sees treasure in trash and is willing to put in some effort to bring it back to life. I'll bet you spent about $50-60 for parts and paint and a couple hours of your time but you got something very special for it.
Honestly don’t comment too much on TH-cam, but great job on making your instrument man. 5$ cheap as hell, and you got yourself a bass guitar or of it. Don’t understand why people are getting so butthurt over it. Cool video, keep rocking 🤙🏼
Looking back, it probably had a jazz pickup in there, but as a cigar box guitar builder and amateur repair guy, I love the idea of putting just a single coil on it
I like how you showed tou can make a usable guiyar for cheap! It looks cool! My first electric was an $8 yard sale find. Ugly as a bedbug! A little paint and some hard work and I was jammin! You don't have to spend thousands to have fun!👍😎🎸🎶
This looks to me like a seventies Ibanez type copy of a fifties Fender p- bass. They call these "tele " bases because they match the 50's telecaster look all fenders had back then. eventually they changed the shape and look to match the Stratocaster when it came out. I can tell it is a cheap copy because 50's Fenders had the truss rod adjustment screw at the other end of the neck against the body. You had to remove the neck to adjust it. This one has a wide cavity and truss rod cover which is what the cheaper Ibanez copies had. The Fender logo is a decal someone put on, you can get those everywhere. Fender didn't do a truss cavity at the headstock until the late '80's maybe? Anyways I would have modded it differently made it look more stock and used a bass pickup. But as long as you like it, it's a cool knock around bass for jamming on.
drumsNstuff79 Spot on. Ibanez Tele bass from the 70's. Not a bad find at all. Interesting enough the standard equipment on this bass was indeed a single coil guitar pickup - a Tele style blade pup with chrome cover.
That is the body and headstock shape that was used when the p bass was created in 1951 up until late 1954/55 when the shape changed to what the p bass has been ever since. The early 50's ones also used a single coil. Sting plays one.
i mean i don't care what you do to it but i am confused why you put a guitar pickup in it you can get a bass pickup for just as cheap. Also in most basses you can put the string inside the tuning pole so it doesn't stick out
Actually, you are thinking of the Musicmaster Bass variant was introduced in the mid-1960s and was originally marketed as a student model. Rather than the split-coil design of the Mustang Bass, it featured a single-coil pickup, which was actually a six-pole Stratocaster guitar pickup under a solid plastic cover. Production ceased around the same time as the Mustang Bass. The Squier Musicmaster Bass was reissued briefly in 1997, however it was discontinued after only one year of production and was ultimately replaced by the Bronco Bass.
He's talking about the bridge ground wire, it's used to ground not only the bridge but the strings and tuners also because they can act like a radio antennae and introduce noise into your signal with out being grounded.
Again, he is not talking about the pickup ground, the pickup wouldn't work unless it's ground wire is connected to the jack but there should also be a wire connected to both the jack and the bridge for the reasons I mentioned above.
Hey man I just want to say thank you for the inspiration I bought a old beat up ibanez gio gax 70 for 10 bucks fixing it up myself and im almost done again want to say thanks for the inspiration
When I first saw this and I saw the pickup route I was all, “cool! It’s one of those 50’s style telecaster basses!”.....and then then the bondo came out....HaHaHaHa!!!! Seriously tho, the bass looks waaay better than it did before AND it’s playable now so it’s gonna get some use that’s the important part
Man good job making all these people angry! For real I dig the project, this was a fun video to watch, real good vibes, I think people are forgetting the fact that it cost 5 bucks! Good shit dude. Sick beard too.
NeverTheExpert - lol, thanks man! I don’t know why some of them get so mad about my guitar. I love it, and it’s not going anywhere... thanks bro! Take care.
Y’all getting too bent out of shape. He simply set out to prove you can take a mostly gone bass and still make something of it. I thought it was a great video. Anything I didn’t like I can do differently
Yes but if he had done the restoration correctly AKA used the right parts it could’ve been worth so much more than what it’s worth now we are more upset about the fact that he’s lost out on money not that he’s done the restoration wrong
You're both wrong, it's a Fender Telecaster Bass. They were first released in 1968 but were changed to a humbucker from the single coil in 1972, so this one is 1971 or older. Edit: apparently it's a fake one.
bpwoods97 this is going to sound like a stupid question because I've only owned one acoustic bass in my life, I'm a drummer. But I always thought bases and I understand this is a really old Bass so they might have been made differently, but I always understood of bases being there like plastic and Metal. Am I wrong?
Are you asking me if Bass guitars are made of metal and plastic? The body of the guitar is always wood. The neck is almost always wood, but I believe there are some with aluminum necks. The bridge is always metal (afaik), the pickups are just magnets with casings really.
And this kids, is a precise example as to the difference between a luthier and a dude who knows his tools really well, but is clueless as to the art of guitar building.
Lookout Piano I didn't mean to throw shade. I was just stating a very biased observation 😂 If the goal was to make it "plug-in-able" then sure he saved it. But if that was really anywhere between a 60s to even 80s real Fender telebass he did cripplingly irreversible damage. I think he knows that too though.
I think the damage was done prior to his owning it. It plays now as opposed to it sits in a garage garbage pile. It's a better quality of life for the bass itself. Personally with all that real estate available on it without the pickguard, I'm thinking he could go with a graphic decal and enhance the look 1000 fold.
Hunter Craig - Thanks man!... Yaas! Love my Pennywise... can’t believe that only about 4 viewers have named the intro song including you... after two hundred thousand views. I keep getting asked over and over who it is... might be a simple bass line, but one of the best songs ever in my opinion. Take care brotha. 🍺
+Andy Prokopyk No it wasn't. It had a single coil pickup with 4 magnetic poles made specifically for bass guitars. It wasn't a single coil guitar pickup. Research Fender Precision bass 1951.
Sly yes it was. It's smaller than a 51 p bass pickup. The whole bass was considerably smaller. You can watch this dissection video and see for yourself. th-cam.com/video/k422DK1w3s4/w-d-xo.html If you do a little additional digging elsewhere you'll see the same thing too. Musicmaster basses were low end student guitars, it was considerably cheaper to use a guitar pickup considering how many more they made and how much less wire they used. Adding on to that, Rickenbacker did the same thing back in the day. Toaster pickups had six pole pieces too, one of the most loved bass pickups of all time.
Sly here's a StewMac article that shows it too. www.stewmac.com/How-To/Online_Resources/Learn_About_Guitar_Pickups_and_Electronics_and_Wiring/A_curious_fact_why_the_1970s_Musicmaster_Bass_had_such_a_thin_sound.html
+Andy Prokopyk Well, you're right about the Fender Musicmaster's pickup. It was a 6 pole single coil pickup. But it wasn't the case on the 50's Precision basses which had the 4 pole single coil pickup, the '51 P-Bass or the Split '51P-Bass (2 coils humbucker single spacing fit). That's why I'm saying that indeed it does matter. The Stew Mac article is also mentioning a mod that can be done to the 6 pole pickup to make it half decent for the Musicmaster. But the best way to improve that bass was to switch for the 4 pole bass pickup, whether it was for the split or the standard single coil model. Many people did go with this simple inexpensive mod with their Musicmasters and never looked back. If I can get my hands on a short scale beater like this for cheap I'll go for it. photos.imageevent.com/firstflight/fendermusicmasterbass/websize/MusicmasterBass.JPG I'm a Fender Precision fan. I like the full warm sound of the P-Bass pickups. I never really liked that much the sound of these vintage Rickenbackers which seems to be coming out of a vibrating pipe. Very specific sounding and a bit too narrow and dry for me. It's always subjective when it comes to personal taste though. th-cam.com/video/rUytW-qFNcw/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/b-bUIYML1ZI/w-d-xo.html
Firstly, The guitar pickup. Secondly, the way he strung it. Thirdly, MONEY. Not that what he made is a piece of crap or anything, it's interesting, but also I don't think he could've made it any more obvious that he's never touched a bass in his life.
I heard this in the car and he said "The right annotation" and I figured he put something on the screen, then watched it later and he meant INTONATION. 😂😂😁🤘
Which part of ‘I want to fix it in the cheap so I can plug it in when a friend comes round’, who cares if there’s a guitar pick up in it and a cheap bridge. It works and is fit for purpose.
Good enough, since you're not planning to gig with it. I paid $75 for an Ibanez bass that sounds and plays like crap; looks like you gor the better deal. I am surpised how well the guitar pickup works.
Thank you for this video. I purchased a bass a few years ago from craigslist and it looked horrible. I didn't really know how to fix it. I saw your video and I am inspired. Thanks again.
Why didn´t you put the end of the string inside the whole of the tuning peg? I saw that you you made a knot like the one you would make on a guitar string but I don´t think it will stay in tune that much like that.
Carlos Anaya - These tuning pegs are some weird kind I've never seen before, they don't have a hole... just split open down the middle. I've never had a guitar with that kinda pegs... not sure if I did it right or not. Lol 🤔 thanks man, have a good day!
Hey guys, this is just a normal bass tuning peg. you'd normally cut the string to length and then put it down the middle hole of the peg and wind it around. there are plenty of vids on youtube on how to string a bass.
My OCD abandoned me after watching this. Said it wouldn't take any more abuse. Thanks? Good names for it include "Gray Poop On" or "ButterSnatch". I'd hang it in the bathroom, as looking at it aids bowel movement. Great "Try Not To Cringe / Rage" video. I lost. Hard.
qdaveq he can add good pickups to it and it'd sound exactly the same as a high quality real fender. a bass is a bass. doesn't matter if it doesn't have a precious logo on it or whatever , swap out the pickups and he can record with it! Won't be any difference sound wise from a real fender ;) I agree with you that before he can do that, he'd need to change the pickups
I'm not saying its the only thing, but the main thing that really makes any real difference between a cheap and expensive guitar is the pickups. I'd rather buy a cheap guitar and great pickups. get the same sound as a $2000 but save a fuck load of money instead of wasting it like an idiot.
cheap guitar - whatever cheap as fuck price , great pickups - $200 , fretwork and stuff if you do it yourself - free. $2000 bass or guitar sound right there for less than $400 maybe even less depending on how much you spend on the guitar.
Idk if you were trying to tell him he needs to change his pickups or where just trying to make yourself feel better about wasting money but its true. Buy any guitar or bass for any price. Even $5 , do fretwork yourself for free, change pickups for around $200 , won't sound any different from the thing you wasted so much on 😂 pickups are what make a good guitar or bass sound mainly. Not the wood or logo haha.
Little tip if you didn’t know it. As it’s a bolt on neck, back off all the screws a quarter turn while under string tension and tighten them back up, will get much better tone. Liked the vid bro
They do. They don't look like this though. Especially at at the nut where the truss cover is missing with 3 screw holes. A Jap Fender does not have a truss rod cover. Do some research and educate yourself. Otherwise, shut the hell up.
Looks like a Tele Bass made a re-issue back in the 2000's but the single coil variation is way older that the humbucker model. They are pretty good basses,Mike Dirnt had one built for him(Fender ) Keith Ferguson ,Dusty Hill and a few others laid down some tone with the Tele Bass,bad ass with a single coil....
I do believe that's a real Fender bass! The stories it could tell! Edit: You're not a musician are you? I'd love to see someone who knows what they're doing restore this.
In theory, the bridge in this hollow body could have been grounded via one of the five mounting screws, but he apparently opted not to ground the bridge.
You didn’t even put both strap buttons on or intonate it dude the project had potential but you really screwed it up with most of it, I’ve done it too on projects so I’m not trynna be an ass just stating my opinion
To be fair, that's where they originally were located. They were there for your fingers so it'd be easier to play bass "properly" with the side of your thumb.
From what I can tell, he's a hobbyist guitarist. This bass isn't going to get much use, and he did a good job with everything for the purposes he intends to use it for. The only thing I took issue with was the way he strung it up, because it looks like the tuners are the ones you put the string ends in (as most bass tuners are) to avoid the clipping and knotting bs.
As a bass player, I cringed the entire way through this video. Looks like an original Fender P-Bass you just turned into a baritone guitar
When he broke out that pickup I was done 😆
I agree
I couldn't but agree with you. No need to any real mods if he did some research on parts. No need to cut that pickup cavity for cheap guitar pickup.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
for real what is that awful pickup poor precision bass
Surprised you didn’t try to put guitar strings on it too
Why hack it up to put a guitar pickup in?
Nuts.
I didn't even notice that lmao
I was thinking the same!
He probably just had it laying around and decided to put it to good use. Didn't sound too bad either.
Aarlog he buyed for 7 bucks
Btw sounds cool
The old paint was cool! You should have just sand it and polish it.
We’re do you got it
Ok this pickup isn't for a bass
David Jessee Well the Tele Bass had a guitar pickup
@@ilpatongi ummm... no?
Yes
@@violacola yup. it's true.
@@ilpatongi No lmao it didnt, it had a single coil bass pickup that looked like a guitar pickup
Little advice: don't wear a green hat when you're in front of a green screen.
gazcan1 - yeah... learned that lesson.. 😕... just got it back then.... I was stupid af. 🙂🔫
The miller lite shirt tho... Hahaha. Great video btw!
gazcan1 a
gazcan1 haha you are too funny but good idea
Looks good. As a dedicated bassist I cringed at the guitar pickup and crappy cheap bridge.
craigdamage fucking critics....
No. I'm a bassist, not a critic. He did a very good job....except putting a guitar pickup on bass.
I'm a guitarist and I cringed at it, but like you said beside that it's fantastic.
"Who cares?" Who knows? Why are there comments threads? Why do people post videos in the first place? Any more questions, fuckface?
+craigdamage Yes dude you watch the video then you forget it ever happened. Erase all opinions you had about it from your mind and share them with no one.
The pickup, stringing and lack of ground wire gave me cancer
The Beige Rabbit Ok the gap in the neck, that's really bad, I've got a terrible Satellite for the 70s that even worse than that. For the pickup however, who fucking cares? A pick up is a pickup, why the fuck does it matter that it's for a guitar, it will do that same job, the pole pieces will obviously be out of alignment with the strings but it still works and does it job so who give a shit?
Tech Time M.A. well he sure does have a unique bass now
@The Beige Rabbit also putting a polyurethane on rosewood
I already have Cancer from my own guitars but, I went Chronic here dude. Just kidding as the Dude did a fine job on there.
I give a shit . I would never play this bass. a pickup is not just a pickup, they have different types. Put some bike tires on your car.@@wastewoodrockers5526
The best intro ever! As a guitar hunter myself I hear you. The joy of getting a crappy guitar knowing the glory you are going to give back to it when restored... Priceless! Well, I'll get back to continue watching the video.
I kind of wanted to see the same trashy color stay, would have added character in my opinion
MST720 I wanted the same, the mustard yellow looks terrible
My thought would be to get a torch do some burn art on it. If it starts out looking like its been through the apocalypse, you might as well make it look like its been through the apocalypse. (though this one was pretty close to start with)
thats gone from a psychodelic bass to a ... sting bass
Agreed
MST720 I wanted it too
You bought a $5 bass and made it a $6 bass. This tele bass had so much potential.
Justin Alvarado it made me sad when he trashed the scratch plate
Yeah, a big wast right there
why what do you mena? he could have upgraded it better or something?
grungical he basically downgraded it
Milonso why?
This is the musical equivalent of stripping an antique cast iron pan with steel wool.
Good video! Thanks for taking the time to bring it back to life.
Charlie Durham - thanks man! Much appreciated!
Despite the guitar pick-up, I liked this. Very creative
Did you notice he strung it for right-handed playing but left the thumb rest on it for left-handed?
That's not a thumb rest, that's a tug bar. It's for resting your fingers while plucking with your thumb.
i stand corrected. its my teachers in school that call it a thumb rest so i apologise for my incompetance. :D
I think they sounded pretty allright. Wouldn't use guitar pickups myself, but it worked
Zee it's either for resting your fingers on to play with your thumb, or vice versa. It's either below or above the strings depending on which.
why didnt you use a bass pickup? you could have gotten a cheap p bass pickup and electronics for the same as the guitar pickup you used
agreed, if you're doing a bass repair then repair it as a bass
fUP420babe personally, I think it sounds really really good, it's not a super thick thick sound, and kinda would sit in a mix pretty well imo
Jazz basses have single coils
Had a Fender Musicmaster bass once, that had a strat single coil, 6 pole from factory....sounded good!
if i was going to use a guitar pickup, i would have went for a humbucking singlecoil sized blade pickup, then at least the poles wont matter.
The only thing that I don't like about this video is how it makes wanna start yard hunting. Great video m8.
I like it!! It reminds me of being 15/16 and not being able to afford anything and skiing it yourself!! Punk rock!! Looks great IMO. Good video. Also the soundtrack in the background when you were putting it back together was a right mix!! 👍
The finish it had before actually looked really cool and unique, I'm not really into beat up guitars, but that finish was truly a "one in a million"
It's his bass, who cares about what parts he put in it? It's a cool video, thanks for sharing.
Samuel Mathis - thanks man, really appreciate it... that’s what I’m saying. Take care.
Brian Ealy i see all this hate and I'm like, but why? I honestly really enjoyed it. Great job \w/ \w/
I agree. Its HIS bass, not theirs. Bunch of damned snobby pricks trying to sound authoritative.
"But, you didn't use the right pickup!"
Its HIS property.
"But, you didn't use the right amp"
Its HIS property.
What part of it being his property to do with as he pleases do they not understand?
bad ass!..i love buying cheap guitars and doing the same thing. very cool video
I tremendously enjoyed watching this.
TubeDupe - thank you, I appreciate it!
protip: don't string a bass like that.
clip the string about 4 inches past the tuner it's going into, then put the string into the hole inside the tuner and tune up to pitch. You'll find it won't slip out of tune
Thats a good idea. What I find gets me a perfect length is to wind around the peg twice the wrong way, then clip it just past the tuning key. Hasn’t failed me yet.
I pull the string taut through the peg, then grab at the nut and pull back about two frets, sometimes 2.5 if the gauge is thick. Then clip at the peg and insert into the hole. That gives me the most consistent amount needed.
Plus a string buzz
i kinda spit my water out when i saw that.... now my shits all wet haha
Am I the only one who liked it better before he painted it
MajesticMarica Chicken nah, I thought he would preserve the paint. It gave it some punky aesthetic.
I liked it so so so much more
MajesticMarica Chicken yes u are
I liked it better the way he found it...Should have just clear coated it and buffed it to a mirror shine. Would have been awesome. He should have put a cheap hot rails pickup in it. Would have been more appropriate than a pup designed for 6 strings.
It's punk rock
I love it when someone sees treasure in trash and is willing to put in some effort to bring it back to life. I'll bet you spent about $50-60 for parts and paint and a couple hours of your time but you got something very special for it.
I have a fender bass from 1971, has a guitar pickup in it too, sounds fine!
Honestly don’t comment too much on TH-cam, but great job on making your instrument man. 5$ cheap as hell, and you got yourself a bass guitar or of it. Don’t understand why people are getting so butthurt over it. Cool video, keep rocking 🤙🏼
Joseph Rains - Thanks man, I appreciate it! 🍺 Take care!
Joseph Rains And you obviously don't understand basses either.
for starters he used a 6 string guitar pickup for a 4 string bass...
One of the great things about the internet. Everyone knows better and can do better...but they never do.
I agree with you, bro!
Some do.
But you just admitted you wouldn't.
It's called projecting.
After watching the video, I got the craziest urge for a butterscotch lollipop! 🤣🤣 I love it when it when you can turn trash to treasure . Thanks!
Looking back, it probably had a jazz pickup in there, but as a cigar box guitar builder and amateur repair guy, I love the idea of putting just a single coil on it
If you don't know that's not a "real" fender then that's your first of many many problems! But it's cool you brought a old bass back to life. Good job
The fun involved in doing this = Priceless.
Dude, yardsales, thriftshops, swapmeets, ive been finding gear all over. Its always awesome to find gear, awesome find
Excellent.
Love that color, too.
I like how you showed tou can make a usable guiyar for cheap! It looks cool! My first electric was an $8 yard sale find. Ugly as a bedbug! A little paint and some hard work and I was jammin! You don't have to spend thousands to have fun!👍😎🎸🎶
This looks to me like a seventies Ibanez type copy of a fifties Fender p- bass. They call these "tele " bases because they match the 50's telecaster look all fenders had back then. eventually they changed the shape and look to match the Stratocaster when it came out. I can tell it is a cheap copy because 50's Fenders had the truss rod adjustment screw at the other end of the neck against the body. You had to remove the neck to adjust it. This one has a wide cavity and truss rod cover which is what the cheaper Ibanez copies had. The Fender logo is a decal someone put on, you can get those everywhere. Fender didn't do a truss cavity at the headstock until the late '80's maybe? Anyways I would have modded it differently made it look more stock and used a bass pickup. But as long as you like it, it's a cool knock around bass for jamming on.
drumsNstuff79 - dang man, thanks for the info! I really appreciate it. You know your basses! Thanks again, take care.
Has the same Gibson type nut that Ibanez used on their early 70s Fender copies
wouldn't a guitar pickup be authentic to the time anyway?
drumsNstuff79 Spot on. Ibanez Tele bass from the 70's. Not a bad find at all. Interesting enough the standard equipment on this bass was indeed a single coil guitar pickup - a Tele style blade pup with chrome cover.
Ben No. It's a copy of a 1951 fender precision bass which had a bass pickup. Basses have never had guitar pickups with 6 poles.
What a fantastic Job! Perfect!
Brilliant! Great music at the end.
i died a little inside when he started playing money
yung grasshopper he went out of time on it as well, like really
Yea it was pretty bad.
Some say it's still out of tune to this day
New video... how to ruin a 50’s p bass, call it a 70’s and put a guitar pickup in it
It’s a japanese copy p bass
The body isn't the right shape to be an actual pbass
That is the body and headstock shape that was used when the p bass was created in 1951 up until late 1954/55 when the shape changed to what the p bass has been ever since. The early 50's ones also used a single coil. Sting plays one.
It looks lols a 50s body and neck. Heck, the OG bridge looks like one of the early 50s ones
Alex Burton, this is not a 50's bass. Never was, never will be.
If I were that bass...the feeling when you played Pink Floyd on me after a long time..I would be the happiest bass ever.
That was pretty cool. Sounded good.
i mean i don't care what you do to it but i am confused why you put a guitar pickup in it you can get a bass pickup for just as cheap.
Also in most basses you can put the string inside the tuning pole so it doesn't stick out
Reinier van zwieten came here to say this.
I also dont understand why put a guitar pickup in a bass?
to be fair, that bass originally just had a guitar pickup in it (fender 50s pbass)
Ben no, it had a single coil bass pickup. Different pickup pattern
Actually, you are thinking of the Musicmaster Bass variant was introduced in the mid-1960s and was originally marketed as a student model. Rather than the split-coil design of the Mustang Bass, it featured a single-coil pickup, which was actually a six-pole Stratocaster guitar pickup under a solid plastic cover. Production ceased around the same time as the Mustang Bass. The Squier Musicmaster Bass was reissued briefly in 1997, however it was discontinued after only one year of production and was ultimately replaced by the Bronco Bass.
No ground wire.....Brian was electrocuted on his first and last real gig as a bass player on New years eve..RIP Brian........
*sigh* I've used those pickups in CBGs. They're grounded to the jack. More than one way to wire a guitar harness.
He's talking about the bridge ground wire, it's used to ground not only the bridge but the strings and tuners also because they can act like a radio antennae and introduce noise into your signal with out being grounded.
I'm not defending the way they hook them up, just telling you that it is possible to ground to jack.
Again, he is not talking about the pickup ground, the pickup wouldn't work unless it's ground wire is connected to the jack but there should also be a wire connected to both the jack and the bridge for the reasons I mentioned above.
just said the same thing to my girlfriend as he put the bridge on the bass
Relaxing project to watch... nice job!
Party on dudes, and Be excellent to each other!
Hey man I just want to say thank you for the inspiration I bought a old beat up ibanez gio gax 70 for 10 bucks fixing it up myself and im almost done again want to say thanks for the inspiration
When I first saw this and I saw the pickup route I was all, “cool! It’s one of those 50’s style telecaster basses!”.....and then then the bondo came out....HaHaHaHa!!!! Seriously tho, the bass looks waaay better than it did before AND it’s playable now so it’s gonna get some use that’s the important part
I LOVE for my bass to have the right “annotation”
Just way too AWESOME!!!
Paint that pick guard black and put it on there!!! Awesome job, though...I love it!! Old instruments never die, they just get abandoned!!
The contrast between this mans beard and his teeth is mesmerising...
Loved it. Except for the guitar pick up on a bass.
Man good job making all these people angry!
For real I dig the project, this was a fun video to watch, real good vibes, I think people are forgetting the fact that it cost 5 bucks!
Good shit dude. Sick beard too.
NeverTheExpert - lol, thanks man! I don’t know why some of them get so mad about my guitar. I love it, and it’s not going anywhere... thanks bro! Take care.
Doesnt matter, decisions alone could have made this a much better guitar.
@@BrianEaly because you put a guitar pickup in a bass and stringed the bass wrong
Y’all getting too bent out of shape. He simply set out to prove you can take a mostly gone bass and still make something of it. I thought it was a great video. Anything I didn’t like I can do differently
Yes but if he had done the restoration correctly AKA used the right parts it could’ve been worth so much more than what it’s worth now we are more upset about the fact that he’s lost out on money not that he’s done the restoration wrong
Great work bro! I love the old stuff reborn!
That was great. I love a good trash-into-treasure story.
Not Fender, not with the truss rod cover and nut. The decal is fake.
Nice job restoring the bass though, and it is a deal for 5 bucks.
Its obviously a Frankenstein. The neck isn't stock, its been added later.
You're both wrong, it's a Fender Telecaster Bass. They were first released in 1968 but were changed to a humbucker from the single coil in 1972, so this one is 1971 or older.
Edit: apparently it's a fake one.
bpwoods97 this is going to sound like a stupid question because I've only owned one acoustic bass in my life, I'm a drummer. But I always thought bases and I understand this is a really old Bass so they might have been made differently, but I always understood of bases being there like plastic and Metal. Am I wrong?
Are you asking me if Bass guitars are made of metal and plastic? The body of the guitar is always wood. The neck is almost always wood, but I believe there are some with aluminum necks. The bridge is always metal (afaik), the pickups are just magnets with casings really.
bpwoods97 i learned somthimg new, thank you. Again i know more about drums then anything else and even then im still learning.
Nice restoration, looked good when done in my eyes 👍
Have Guitar - thanks! I appreciate it. Take care.
yeah- turned out pretty cool man-
Have Guitar iii
Nice work. Great Hobby. Keeps the videos coming. I love the way you power coated the parts.
Damn, son!! That looks sharp!! Great vid.
Dan Pratt - thanks! I appreciate it. Take care!
And this kids, is a precise example as to the difference between a luthier and a dude who knows his tools really well, but is clueless as to the art of guitar building.
JR's Random Videos right on 😂✊
This may be true, but I think we should at least appreciate him for vastly improving an instrument that appears to have been through a war.
Lookout Piano I didn't mean to throw shade. I was just stating a very biased observation 😂
If the goal was to make it "plug-in-able" then sure he saved it. But if that was really anywhere between a 60s to even 80s real Fender telebass he did cripplingly irreversible damage. I think he knows that too though.
I think the damage was done prior to his owning it. It plays now as opposed to it sits in a garage garbage pile. It's a better quality of life for the bass itself.
Personally with all that real estate available on it without the pickguard, I'm thinking he could go with a graphic decal and enhance the look 1000 fold.
Fektthis ...Brian? 😂😂
Why did you paint that cool thing!!!!!?
I know, right?
Right?
It had a beautiful relic look. All it needed was a few coats of clear finish.
Looks great
.....you scored !
NICE! I loved that you added Bro Hymn in the beginning!
Hunter Craig - Thanks man!... Yaas! Love my Pennywise... can’t believe that only about 4 viewers have named the intro song including you... after two hundred thousand views. I keep getting asked over and over who it is... might be a simple bass line, but one of the best songs ever in my opinion. Take care brotha. 🍺
Did.... did you buy a guitar pick up for a bass?
Really doesn't matter. Fender Musicmaster basses had a strat pickup in the same place with a solid plastic cover
+Andy Prokopyk No it wasn't. It had a single coil pickup with 4 magnetic poles made specifically for bass guitars. It wasn't a single coil guitar pickup. Research Fender Precision bass 1951.
Sly yes it was. It's smaller than a 51 p bass pickup. The whole bass was considerably smaller. You can watch this dissection video and see for yourself.
th-cam.com/video/k422DK1w3s4/w-d-xo.html
If you do a little additional digging elsewhere you'll see the same thing too. Musicmaster basses were low end student guitars, it was considerably cheaper to use a guitar pickup considering how many more they made and how much less wire they used.
Adding on to that, Rickenbacker did the same thing back in the day. Toaster pickups had six pole pieces too, one of the most loved bass pickups of all time.
Sly here's a StewMac article that shows it too.
www.stewmac.com/How-To/Online_Resources/Learn_About_Guitar_Pickups_and_Electronics_and_Wiring/A_curious_fact_why_the_1970s_Musicmaster_Bass_had_such_a_thin_sound.html
+Andy Prokopyk Well, you're right about the Fender Musicmaster's pickup. It was a 6 pole single coil pickup. But it wasn't the case on the 50's Precision basses which had the 4 pole single coil pickup, the '51 P-Bass or the Split '51P-Bass (2 coils humbucker single spacing fit). That's why I'm saying that indeed it does matter. The Stew Mac article is also mentioning a mod that can be done to the 6 pole pickup to make it half decent for the Musicmaster. But the best way to improve that bass was to switch for the 4 pole bass pickup, whether it was for the split or the standard single coil model. Many people did go with this simple inexpensive mod with their Musicmasters and never looked back. If I can get my hands on a short scale beater like this for cheap I'll go for it. photos.imageevent.com/firstflight/fendermusicmasterbass/websize/MusicmasterBass.JPG I'm a Fender Precision fan. I like the full warm sound of the P-Bass pickups. I never really liked that much the sound of these vintage Rickenbackers which seems to be coming out of a vibrating pipe. Very specific sounding and a bit too narrow and dry for me. It's always subjective when it comes to personal taste though. th-cam.com/video/rUytW-qFNcw/w-d-xo.html th-cam.com/video/b-bUIYML1ZI/w-d-xo.html
isn't that pickup for acoustic guitar?
Alexander yeah
I can’t believe how gorgeous it looked
Beautiful job! I didn't know a guy could do his own powder-coating.
This was painful to watch for a number of reasons
Joe Allen bring them then
Firstly, The guitar pickup. Secondly, the way he strung it. Thirdly, MONEY. Not that what he made is a piece of crap or anything, it's interesting, but also I don't think he could've made it any more obvious that he's never touched a bass in his life.
was that a guitar pick up on a bass
Yes. Yes it was.
@@ChiliDUDE27 chill, he just started bass at that time
Should have clear coated the original sanded paint job. That gold/yellow color...not so good. Maybe, put a bass pick up in it too.
I was so hoping he would've left the sanded paint on ...
Yes!!
That original yellow-blue colour scheme was sick! Almost worth trying it on purpose!
That was fun! Looks like a Boston Bruins tribute,
Brian could call it
"Brian's Bear Bass".
Very cool! The most important thing is that you made it totally yours. If your happy, all is right in the universe tonight. Nice job!
I heard this in the car and he said "The right annotation" and I figured he put something on the screen, then watched it later and he meant INTONATION. 😂😂😁🤘
Which part of ‘I want to fix it in the cheap so I can plug it in when a friend comes round’, who cares if there’s a guitar pick up in it and a cheap bridge. It works and is fit for purpose.
PendulumEffect - thanks for that! That’s what I’m saying... much appreciated. Take care!
Good enough, since you're not planning to gig with it. I paid $75 for an Ibanez bass that sounds and plays like crap; looks like you gor the better deal. I am surpised how well the guitar pickup works.
But the complaint is that you could have gotten a bass pickup for just as cheap and be able to actually hear the bass frequencies.
Fendor in the 60;s up the 7-'s would put tele pup pick ups in some basses..
Beautiful man, great work!
Thank you for this video. I purchased a bass a few years ago from craigslist and it looked horrible. I didn't really know how to fix it. I saw your video and I am inspired. Thanks again.
I swear, you did a fantastic job on that thing of a bass. Great work man, really!
Anderson McCant - thanks, very much appreciated. Take care man.
Why didn´t you put the end of the string inside the whole of the tuning peg? I saw that you you made a knot like the one you would make on a guitar string but I don´t think it will stay in tune that much like that.
Carlos Anaya - These tuning pegs are some weird kind I've never seen before, they don't have a hole... just split open down the middle. I've never had a guitar with that kinda pegs... not sure if I did it right or not. Lol 🤔 thanks man, have a good day!
Brian Ealy Oh ok. They do look weird.
Hey guys, this is just a normal bass tuning peg. you'd normally cut the string to length and then put it down the middle hole of the peg and wind it around. there are plenty of vids on youtube on how to string a bass.
except for the fact that, as I read it, there was no hole. Probably some ultra cheap tuners that just look the part and barely do the job.
Oswaldo Delacroix you would do it as if it was a hole. Use the slot like a hole. It's not that hard.
The color you painted it with the black hardware looks great. Enjoy it my friend.
That's bad ass man .. I love finding cheap stuff and showing it some love and bringing it back to life !!
My OCD abandoned me after watching this. Said it wouldn't take any more abuse. Thanks?
Good names for it include "Gray Poop On" or "ButterSnatch".
I'd hang it in the bathroom, as looking at it aids bowel movement.
Great "Try Not To Cringe / Rage" video. I lost. Hard.
Whats that black block next to the pickup and the knobs? Never seen that before...
I don’t play bass by the way so don’t get mad at me.
Java Monsoon thanks!
Doesn't sound half bad, great job dude
Love your taste in music; very eclectic
*casually hangs guitar in tree*
Whether or not they needed a different type of aggregate. It would depend upon what was available in the area, thought Simon.
qdaveq he can add good pickups to it and it'd sound exactly the same as a high quality real fender. a bass is a bass. doesn't matter if it doesn't have a precious logo on it or whatever , swap out the pickups and he can record with it! Won't be any difference sound wise from a real fender ;) I agree with you that before he can do that, he'd need to change the pickups
I'm not saying its the only thing, but the main thing that really makes any real difference between a cheap and expensive guitar is the pickups. I'd rather buy a cheap guitar and great pickups. get the same sound as a $2000 but save a fuck load of money instead of wasting it like an idiot.
cheap guitar - whatever cheap as fuck price , great pickups - $200 , fretwork and stuff if you do it yourself - free. $2000 bass or guitar sound right there for less than $400 maybe even less depending on how much you spend on the guitar.
Idk if you were trying to tell him he needs to change his pickups or where just trying to make yourself feel better about wasting money but its true. Buy any guitar or bass for any price. Even $5 , do fretwork yourself for free, change pickups for around $200 , won't sound any different from the thing you wasted so much on 😂 pickups are what make a good guitar or bass sound mainly. Not the wood or logo haha.
Great video Brian. Thanks for sharing!
Trent Stephen - thanks man! Appreciate it.
Little tip if you didn’t know it. As it’s a bolt on neck, back off all the screws a quarter turn while under string tension and tighten them back up, will get much better tone. Liked the vid bro
that looks like an old tele bass.. like sting uses
They do. They don't look like this though. Especially at at the nut where the truss cover is missing with 3 screw holes.
A Jap Fender does not have a truss rod cover.
Do some research and educate yourself.
Otherwise, shut the hell up.
Looks like a Tele Bass made a re-issue back in the 2000's but the single coil variation is way older that the humbucker model. They are pretty good basses,Mike Dirnt had one built for him(Fender ) Keith Ferguson ,Dusty Hill and a few others laid down some tone with the Tele Bass,bad ass with a single coil....
Tom Dodds - thanks for the info man, much appreciated!
It's not a Telecaster.
Anthony Freelump I think it is
Sting has one too
I do believe that's a real Fender bass! The stories it could tell!
Edit: You're not a musician are you? I'd love to see someone who knows what they're doing restore this.
Thank you Brian Ealy!
Why in the world did you put a guitar pickup on it?
You powder coated the base of the bridge !! So now the bridge has got no metal contact to earth to. Strange
In theory, the bridge in this hollow body could have been grounded via one of the five mounting screws, but he apparently opted not to ground the bridge.
Neat restore. I have that same amp head and cabinet. Good job.
He should do a yard sell find and put high end parts into it. He would have something that looked like hell but sounded like a dream!
''Looks a little bit nicer''
Little bit? Hahah, you’re funny
Jackon J he said that right as I read this comment. Spooky.
Bro hymn intro
Dude that’s badass. Great job 👌
I personally feel the color fits perfectly! Glad you went with that instead.
You didn’t even put both strap buttons on or intonate it dude the project had potential but you really screwed it up with most of it, I’ve done it too on projects so I’m not trynna be an ass just stating my opinion
I think he put the "front" button on the neck plate instead of the top horn
Yeah but he put the thumb rest below the g s string
To be fair, that's where they originally were located. They were there for your fingers so it'd be easier to play bass "properly" with the side of your thumb.
From what I can tell, he's a hobbyist guitarist. This bass isn't going to get much use, and he did a good job with everything for the purposes he intends to use it for. The only thing I took issue with was the way he strung it up, because it looks like the tuners are the ones you put the string ends in (as most bass tuners are) to avoid the clipping and knotting bs.
Yeah, that's what really bothered me since the only bass tuners I have seen are the ones you put the end in
The cringe in the project is off the charts
theewolf whats cringy?
guitar pick up
Bezimienny Grześ yeah I looked back on it, like how he wound the pegs. He had fun though...
this dude doesn't know what the fuck he's talking about the entire video. that's what a luthier education through youtube gets you
I did come here just for the cringe
That basses spirit returned with the lightning strike hahaha . Awesome video !
Love you jeep videos, nice to see a fellow Ohioian on TH-cam
Ohio fam!... Thanks, I appreciate it! Take care!