An hour in the sunshine sanding the body......

To be fair, sunshine is not vital for this, but a low angle of light DOES make it easier to see bumps and dips that still need work........

Pity about the glue line (that I stress, was there when I got the bass!), but the grain looks nice.... if it hadn't been for the glue line, I might have gone the whole hog and stripped it completely......

steel wool and lemon oil

This fingerboard looks like it's never been cleaned.

VERY icky..... so, 0000 grade steel wool to the rescue......

then a polish with lemon oil

now that's a LOT better....... frets are all shiny now too!

and the crack that needs filled, a quick scrape with a blade to make a decent groove to fill.....

then get it filled.....

once this is dry I'll flip it and fill the back, then it'll be time to get the sander out......

Winter Project; Jazz bass rebuild

OK, this was dirt cheap. 

for a reason!

Where the tape is tastefully wrapped around the body is a break...... which has been repaired quite badly.......  so there are gaps that will need to be filled.

 

and there are a few scuffs that you'd expect on a cheap old bass! 

On taking the scratchplate off, I discovered that the reason the bridge pickup wont work is because both wires are off.

Not the end of the world.

The neck is straight (but the fingerboard is really dirty) so this will really be 90% fill, sand and spray. before re-assembling.

So, on removing the neck I see MAY 98 which makes it 20 years old.  There is a very minor ding on the back of the neck, so it can be left alone.

The headstock and tuners are fine, apart from that Logo.

Now, I'm NOT going to try to pass it off as anything it isn't, but "Legend" has to go.

Two minutes with fine wet and dry sandpaper......

Legend is still just visible, but when I get my new waterslide decal made up it'll be a lot prettier.