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19th June 2011, 06:20 PM #1New Member
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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.
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19th June 2011, 07:43 PM #2
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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19th June 2011, 08:28 PM #3New Member
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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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19th June 2011, 10:41 PM #4
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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