One of my oldest friends played a p-bass back when, and after I left the band we were in together, I moved west to go to a luthier school. I was back briefly visiting family and he was in a band with a guy who played a BC Rich guitar. So I whipped up a body to kind of match

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Over 3 decades later (and almost 10 years ago) my sister was emptying our parents’ home and her husband called and said he found something that looked like a guitar body and sent me a pic. Turned out to be the original p-bass body, so I asked my friend if he wanted it, and he said he was no longer playing the one I’d modified (solid maple body was a bit heavy!) so I arranged to try and put it back together. Most little parts were all gone but he loves the “original” form.
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That replacement body found new life as a lamp
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