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DrChu
May 14, 2002

You're just going to end up with a four string guitar with wide string spacing. This is what you will sound like (maybe, at best, which isn't saying much): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFc7dobYivw

There's nothing special about bass pickups compared to guitar pickups, so you might as well just stick with them and avoid extra routing. Though having two humbuckers will get in the way of what slapping you think you will be doing.

Four string bass bridges come in a variety of spacings and they're about the same as a six string guitar, unless you want the strings really tight together for some reason? I don't know why you think a five string bridge with a saddle missing will make it look like a whammy bar hole. You'll need a new nut as well, and some sort of string retainer to guide the strings to the four tuning pegs you'll be using.

You say you don't want "another standard tuned guitar with humbuckers" but that is literally what your plan is, minus two strings.

This whole thing is dumb.

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