Lol I know. When I first got this guy, nobody I knew had seen a 5-string bass before. Then again, I was like 14.

I haven't worked on enough guitars to say. I did build a very shitty neck-through once, so I can kind of imagine the difference, but I don't think it would have been that different either way.

Honestly, the biggest aspect that I appreciated was that the bolt-on neck gave me an opportunity to have a completely different finish on the neck vs. the body. Choosing the colors was fun and I think the contrast came out awesome.

Thank you! Not so much anymore since I moved cities, but I still go out and jam here and there.

Before high school, I somehow convinced my dad to buy me a 5-string bass, and it turned out to be my favourite bass for several years. As soon as I got another 5-string, however, this bass ended up getting beat up, and turned into a project bass - I was in high school, liked taking things apart, and had access to a wood shop. It was in questionable condition by the time I graduated, and it found itself in parts under my bed more than once.

In 2019, during university, I finally decided to put it back together one more time so I could play it again. Since I wasn't satisfied with the refinish I did in high school, I also decided to do another finish in the process. It's a few years late, but I figured you guys might be interested in seeing what I did. Hope you like it!

Also, if you're interested in checking out this and other stuff I work on, I post them on my Instagram as well: @noam.anglo

That was my inspiration!

Dude I know. IMO one of the best looking GPUs ever. It's one of the reasons I decided to make this instead of buying an aftermarket heatsink lol.

Agreed; this is why I kept their heatsinking and the fan intact. I see now that this isn't clear in the images.

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The reference RX480 VRAM and VRM modules are heatsinked to the shroud's aluminum "frame", which I kept intact. The GPU has been running fine heavily overclocked for over 2 years, so I think this worked.

Agreed that this is a big concern; it's the reason I decided to keep the fan on the GPU instead of just liquid cooling it.

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Thank you, I try. Yeah, it's a lot of effort; IMO it's honestly not worth it unless you're overclocking hard, or (like in my case) your stock cooler is bad lol.

Beats buying an aftermarket cooler if you're willing to spend hours of planning and building and risking your expensive components in the process

This was an older project of mine that I completed about two years ago; I always meant to post it but never got around to it until now.

I love doing secondhand builds, and I especially love making them my own and pushing them to the limit. Really happy how clean this came out, and how well it performs!

EDIT: since people were (rightly) concerned about the VRAM and VRM heatsinking, I added a pic in the album highlighting this in case someone that wanted to do the same thing stumbled upon this post.