Bronco bass to Bronco guitar?

[squibs]

Hey

Has anyone got experience of / knowledge about turning a Bronco bass into a guitar?

I'm assuming that the neck pocket will need filling and the pick-up and bridge holes filling and re-routing.

Any other major problems? It'll be my first major mod/build

Cheers
James
Sheffield

[Snake Hips]

Besides the filling it sounds totally possible

[bussche]

I turned a pbass into a guitar, definitely the major thing is the neck pocket. Luckily due to the surface mount nature of most bass bridges you have a pretty fresh area to work with for mounting your new guitar bridge, if its a hard tail that is haha.

I ended up redrilling the neck mount holes on the body further back in the pocket and filling the empty space with some crazy wood filler stuff. It's decently stable but the entire point of my project was to build a guitar as cheap as possible with what I had lying around so I wouldn't recommend it if your aiming to making a nice finished product haha. Because the neck is further back in the pocket, the heel protrudes further up the neck and can make accessing the upper frets awkward.

[mongoose]

Man, sell me that fugly thing!

[bussche]

Man, sell me that fugly thing!

haha, that Frankenstein is destined for a life of stage abuse.

[wardpike]

This thread makes me sad.

[kalipigeon]

I've wanted to take a bronco bass and turn it into a Bass VI for a long time. I think if you wanted to keep the 30" scale you could just dowel and veneer the headstock and redrill for 6 tuners, then add the bridge of your choice and be set. If you wanted to go normal guitar instead of baritone, you'd probably be looking at a ton more work and a lot more parts to buy. With as much money as you'd have in it, you could probably find a second hand musicmaster or duo.

[Stereordinary]

Forum member aen did exactly what you just said kalipigeon. He just threw a thread up about it. It sounds pretty mean from what I hear. I think actually that he just used a Bronco bass neck and mated it to a CIJ Jaguar body, but the result is basically the same.

[scrondle]

I just had this thought two days ago. My son has a Squire Bronco bass. I've agreed to help him put together a bass this summer. I'm going to put a hard tail on that thing, dowel and re-drill the tuners, carve a new nut and see how she sounds. As an amusing aside, when I gave that bass to my son, I asked him what he would call it. Without missing a beat, he answered "Gluebiscuit".