The release of the new BB series Billy Sheehan "signature" started me thinking... Though I LOVE the Yamaha BB series, the BB714BS is a real letdown. It's got a "mudbucker" pickup added, but it's nothing like Billy's original BB3000. For a start it's not available in pink, lacks a maple fretboard, hipshot d-tuner, stereo outs, scalloped frets and even the pickups aren't the real Will Powers. It isn't even listed on his website!
That set me thinking if it would be possible to build a real BB series BS Signature... And I concluded it's NOT. Bah! At least not practically. For a start where are you going to get a BB body in pink? You could try to use a P-Body (which you can get in pink), and live with the slightly wrong shape, but the BB's are rear-routed, without a pickguard, so that's a non-starter. You'd need to respray a real BB body, and they're not cheap.
Even if you've got a body you then need a maple fretboard - Yamaha only do those on the Attitude, so you need another neck, reshaped to the right headstock, and again resprayed pink.
All that's going to add up to a lot of cash, and work that's not easy to do...
We need a plan B: Billy's original Fender Precision!!!! aka "the Wife".
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