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    Default Neck Through Electric Bass

    Just finishing my second neck through bass. This one probably took around 100 hours or so to this stage. I am a custom drum builder and have recently delved into basses. My goal was to build a fretless with an epoxied fretboard. The marine epoxy protects the fingerboard from the round wound strings and gives the bass a distinct tone first heard from Jaco Pastorious.

    Features:

    - European beach and New Guinea Rosewood (really orange/red colour)
    - New Guinea Rosewood Fingerboard
    - EMG Jaz/P pickup combination
    - To be finished in traditional danish oil

    Should be completed as soon as I level and polish the fingerboard. Will post some images then. Will end up on ebay.

    www,zenzian.com
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    Looking good, I look forward to seeing the finished product
    Nice choice of pickups. I think that PJ configurations really suit the tone of a fretless, the P-bass pickup rounds out the bottom end nicely if the Jazz pickup cuts a bit much. Are you putting in any lines on the fingerboard or leaving it with just the side markers?

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    Default Purpleheart Neck Through Bass Fretless

    Thanks for the compliment. Yes the side markers only. It just gives it that clean look. That EMG setup is a great configuration. I use fender's jazz bass as a guide to the positioning for the 35 inch setup.

    The purpleheart/beech combo i made previously sounds amazing with the same setup.

    See images below

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    Nice to see someone stocking roundwounds on a fretless for a change
    Any idea how the marine epoxy holds up against playing slap?

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