"Les Paul" Mutt Bass for Sale
$250 OBO

I have decided to sell my "Les Paul" Mutt bass. Why? I am building myself a new 6 string, I have two other 6 strings, and I hardly ever play my 4 string basses that much anymore, and when I do (like for studio work), I always reach for my `71 P-Bass, so I have decided to sell this great sounding, great playing bass in the hopes that someone else will appreciate it and play it. It plays fantastic, the neck is very fast with great action and a very slim profile and no buzzes. The bass sounds fantastic with plenty of powerful, punchy low end.

Caveat: This is NOT A REAL Gibson or Epiphone Bass, nor am I attempting to represent it as such. It is home made, and I'm the "Ho" that made it. It is, however, a very unique, one of a kind, fanstastic playing and looking bass! I guarantee this is the only one of its kind!

Specs:

- It has an EMG Active Humbucker in the bridge position
- The neck pickup is the original Washburn guitar humbucker with a chrome cover
- It is wired for stereo (see pic below), that is, each pickup has it's own volume and tone control and a seperate output jack

Here is how it came to be:

About 10 - 12 years ago, I wanted a Les Paul bass, that is to say, a Bass that looked exactly like a Les Paul guitar but with a bass neck. The Gibson Les Paul basses had the body shape, but the pickups and electronics were laid out a little differently than a Les Paul Guitar, so I decided to build my own. I found a really nice Washburn Les Paul copy bolt on neck guitar in a pawn shop with a beautiful flamed top. I then found a nice Epiphone Bass in a pawn shop with a really straight neck. Rather than attempt to rout out the neck pocket in the body, I setup a jig on my router table and routed the sides of the neck down under the fingerboard to fit in the original neck pocket. I decided to go this way as it was easier and faster than routing the body cavity out to be bigger.

I then drilled out the body for the second output jack (I run all my basses in stereo), removed the original bridge pickup and installed an EMG active bass humbucking pickup ($100+ pickup). I left the original Washburn humbucker in the neck position. I then installed a very solid, heavy, brass bass bridge. Due to the carved / curved top of the Les Paul style body, I had to make a shim to get the neck to sit at the correct angle in' the body as well as a piece of metal bar stock under the bridge to reduce the angle of the strings over the bridge saddles. The neck shim is made from pine, my plan was to replace that shim with one made from Eastern Rock Maple once I had the shim angle correct, but it sounded so good and was very stable so I never got around to it. I have included detailed pics of the neck pocket so you can see the work there.

Again, the action and sound on this bass are top notch, and I used to play it all the time, but no longer due to really needing the low B on my 6 string for almost everything I play now, and again, when I want to play a 4 string, my `71 p-bass is right there.

Please give this great bass a good home!

Notes:
- A hardshell case is included in the price (the one in the pics). One of the latches on the case is broken and I replaced it, and some of the tolex covering is torn on the back, however the rest of the case is fine and structurally sound.
- I will include the original pickguard, and extra two gold "top hat" style knobs.
- The bass includes Dunlop Staplocks installed.
- New set of Ken Smith Rock master strings (.045 - .105 gauge).
- The pickup selector switch was broken when I bought the Washburn guitar this bass was made from. As I run my basses in stereo, I never bothered to replace it.
- The neck pickup mounting ring is broken in one of the corners. I placed a piece of tape over it to keep it from flapping around, as I was too cheap to replace it for myself.
- The bridge pickup is an active pickup and the neck is a passive. At the very bottom of the page are pics of a Dimarzio Bass pickup. I will be happy to leave the bass as is (wired for stereo), -OR- I will be happy to remove the EMG active pickup and replace it with the Dimarzio passive pickup, replace the broken pickup selector switch, and wire the bass for standard mono operation - OR - I will leave the bass as is and ship the bass with the Dimarzio in the case for you to do as you will with it. Just let me know which option you prefer.
- Shipping anywhere in the 48 contigous lower United States will be $30. I will cover the cost of anything above that. If shipping ends up being lower, I will include a Money Order for the difference when I ship it out.