Hi there, I'm new on the board and I wanted to show you what I made with my own hands.
 
Here's the story, I scarrow across the musicstores in my country looking for damaged guitars that I botch up and then sell on again, when I found this Damaged-beyond-repair Japanese made copy of a Rickenbacker 4001 bass. I layed down the requiered 50 bucks and the Plywood wonder was mine, I love enourmous Louisville slugger profile necks and this baby had the mother of them all. So I went out, made routing templates for a new body and went to work with the neck as basis for what I was planning.
 
I used five pieces of very tighly flamed maple and nice dark platanus contrasting stripes, but when the glue was hardening, I found out (too late) that the lower half of the body was not wide enough and so I had no other choice but to rout it out slightly off centre, the only mistake in this otherwise very well turned out bass. I used ABM and Grover hardware, switchcraft electronics and Kent Armstrong pickups and it has since become my main bass, everywhere I take it out People go Whoa, dude, where'd you get that awesome looking bass? and I can proudly state that I made it myself.  
 
And so I wanted to know what you think of my handywork.

Blazer, Good job! How does it play/sound?  Does it still have the baseball bat neck, or did you whittle it down?  I think that if I were to try something like that, I would end up with firewood.
 
My very first bass with a Ric 4001.  I bought it around 1976 or so, brand new.  It was a mess.  For some reason, the neck went bad on it.  It got a bad curve and a twist in it.  No one could get it straight.  I sold it for next to nothing, and bought an Alembic.  I am glad I did.

GREAT!!!
I know there are some other daredevils-woodcraftsman-bassplayers on this club. I love the bridge. What is it?
 
BTW hartly welcome from this side of the pond!
 
Paul the bad one

The bridge is an ABM which are among the best in the world it's made out of solid brass. I also happen to own the real thing: a 1976 4001 and I favor this copy over that one. Because with the real one I can only use flatwound strings and the bodybinding digs into my skin painfully.
 
People who've played my bass are shocked when they feel the neck but I love the fat profile, it sound has terrific lows and deep mids on the highs it lacks a bit but I don't mind that, I have my real Rick for that

Here's another Rick I modified, I bought it empty and put in a Musicman humbucker.