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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Looking good, I look forward to seeing the finished product :2tsup:
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?

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

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