After my Telecaster build, my arm was twisted to build as bass guitar. I’ve always thought P bass’s were cool, and sound great. It wasn’t long before I started to gather the bits I needed.
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It wasn’t long before I was soldering the electronics and putting them into the scratch plate along with the copper shielding.
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The rest of the build came together quite quickly, because of my learnings from the Tele build. Both guitars have very similar parts and are built in the same way.
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