Meet Bertha the 3-string short-scale bass. 25.5" scale, 24 frets, the body is a birtch Bo Diddley box from MGB Guitars, neck and fretboard are oak.The control plates are scraps produced by a Detroit metal stamping machine that makes parts for Ford. The Cruiser emblem is from an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser wagon. I can just imagine being parked at the beach, late 1960's, sitting on the tailgate and playing The Ventures tune Pipeline on this bass. :)The pickup is a 4k Mini Box Bucker. The two switches are for tone capacitor selection, one is.033µF, the other .068µF, combined they act as a .1 µF cap and both off tone control is bypassed.
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