The feature bass this week has a finish that was originally a color option for a 1968 Chevrolet Camaro.
Builder William Laing writes:
Boom Boom is finally 100% complete! Tele Style Fretless Bass guitar, Sporting an Alder body, maple neck, custom 1968 Camaro metallic blue Steve Rich paint job, a Seymour Duncan SCPB-1 vintage single coil neck pick-up, Seymour Duncan SJB-1 vintage jazz bridge pick-up, volume, tone, plus an EMG Afterburner 20 DB pre amp doubling as an active passive pull for 9 volt active on (BOOM), Hipshot high mass bridge, a polished bone nut, Hotshot Lollipop tuners and Fender SS flatwounds.
Well done!
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Sloppy job with the pick-up wells… Other than that, Looks good.
Thanks! The base plate for the neck pick up is rhe shape of the opening, I chose not to have pick guard! bill
Don’t know about the colour….but otherwise, SIMPLY STUNNING
Thanks, The pick up wells were free handed, sloppy yes. bill
Thank you!
My favorite features are the Tele styling and that gorgeous maple fret-free fingerboard….yumbo! Looks awesome.
Thank you!
Placement of the mic’s seem to be awesame. Many thoughts before you decided where to put them, but I agree 100%.
Finish, color, and the nice volyme, tone steel unit is something. Would go for.
Congratulations to a work well done
Thank you!
Thanks, I tried to get the mics where the rones are lowest. That where i play 99% of the time, no treble. bill
Sorry.
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Finish, color, and the nice volyme, tone steel unit is something I would go for.
Thank you!
Love the TeleBass! Love the Color Love that you didn’t get “Belly or Arm” cut !!
I would make a guard to cover the pickup mount..jussayin
Thank you!
I can’t help wonder whether those who made comments about the sloppy pickup cavities don’t realize what the bottom bobbin of the ’51 P style pickup looks like?
Yes, It is a very close fit, bill
Looks Stunning, Can’t see any real negatives.
I hope you have lots of fun with it.
Thank You!
Nice job man, how much do you want for it.
I would sell it for $1600.00
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Nice bass brother !
Thank you.
How much to build this bass? Ball park cost is ok.
The parts and painting were $1100 not including labor.
Looks fantastic! I think people are twigging on to the fact the neck pickup route looks big but otherwise you couldn’t fit the pickup in there. Maybe the edges aren’t precise but I can’t see that from the photos and no one could see from 5′ away. I think a pickguard would detract from the great simple clean look. Love that switching arrangement. Is it VVT?
Thank you, it is V, T, Boost (EMG AB220 pre amp)
THIS BASS HAS A…..GOOD LOOK…….COOL COLOR!………JX
Thanks so much! bill
Hey where did you get the three volume control panel from
It used to be a V, T only but I drilled a third hole for the (EMG AB220)pre-amp. Thanks, bill
Very nice build sir. As to the comments on the pick up details, if it were important to anyone I was building it for I would suggest routing to fit the upper portion of the pup from the top and hiding the base by placing it in from the rear and adding a cover plate. It would be a bit more work but building one offs is a lot of work anyway.
Beautiful combination of the Camaro blue with the fretless maple neck! Not sure about the neck pickup hole, otherwise excellent job!