Factory Allstars wrote:
put it on ebay maybe and re-coup some of the cash u have paid for the new one :)
Would seem ungrateful, it's given me 13 years good service, I couldn;t sell it. Besides, it's fucked, and worth about a tenner. The new one cost me £360 all told, it would have cost twice that to do a "makeover" on the old one.
Having said that.....
Rambling bass anecdote alert
Once upon a time I had a Westone SpectrumST, a lovely bass. In an attempt to fix the pickups, I coupletely wrecked the pickups 
I then had to make do with a crappy HondoII Fender copy. Then some drunk cnt at a party, fell on it after it'd been propped against a wall, and broke the neck.
So, I took the HondoII body and the Westone neck and mated them. Took a bit of doing to move the bridge on the HondoII to get the scale length right ( actally, I got it BANG on, by nothing more than intelligent guesswork, I barely had to move the bridge saddles so accurately had I placed the bridge, but that's just me boasting). So I had this weird hyrbid bass which played shockingly well, I have a few recordings of it too.
When I got "current bassie", I de-fretted the Frankenstein, and it became an amazing fretless, as I said elsewhere, the grooves left when you rip out frets, can't be heard as you slide up and down the string, it sounds like a true "naked neck", but you can still FEEL them under the string, so you can always guess where you are better. The bass travelled to college and even the occasional gig, on the strap, on my back, sans case, as with me bombing around in the rain on me pushbike It never cared.
To finance either a trip to see The Orb, or a trip to a record fair to buy N.O. stuff, I flogged it to a mate, he offered me 40 quid, I laughed and said "gimme 30". He painted it pish yellow, and played it a LOT. Then he went back to guitar (sigh, tragic), and sold the bass for SEVENTY quid to someone who had been drooling over it. This person then sold it for £150 2 years later to someone I don't know at all, who apparently called it "an all time classic", and hs used it on comercially released records...even as a SESSION PLAYER.
The moral, don't flog it or burn it....mutate and mangle it.
(hehehe, me bass tutor ( poor sod had to try to teach me right after years of Hooky worship....he actually backed away when I produced a pick), used to have a 14 string Fender Jazz with 4 pickups....4 standard strings, and a hollowed out section of body containing 2 more pickups and 10 drone strings. Sounded like you'd expect...interesting, but ultimately cack and uselss..tho HE managed quite well)
HINT it AINT HAPPENING.
Does this mean you are looking to push it up an octave?