This week’s selection is from Dave. Wanting to do something a little different, he found his inspiration in the wood. Here’s what he says:
I’ve built a few electric guitars and was looking for a new project. This time around I wanted to do something different so I started thinking about a bass. One day I ran across a large piece of tulipwood at a local cabinet shop that was screaming “fretboard” at me so that became my inspiration. I wanted to try out a multi-scale, so I settled on 37″/34″ for my original design. It took a little more than a year to complete.
The body is swamp ash with a maple top and a thin layer of padauk in between.
The laminated neck is 11 pieces of mahogany, maple, pakauk and rosewood.
The fretboard is tulipwood.I wound my own pickups. They are similar to J-bass pickups except I needed to adjust the pole spacing to fit since they lay at an angle to the strings.
I used an Aguilar OBP-3 preamp for electronics. The controls are volume, blend, treble, mid and bass with a pull-out on the mid control to change the center frequency. A pull-out on the volume control switches from active to passive mode.
Well done!
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Very nice job. The quality and attention to detail that you put into your work is very evident.
Wow! Great looking bass! The kind of low to the body neck – great action – slim neck … everything I look for in a bass.
Great job!!!
That is a very nice bit of woodwork and finishing!
Gorgeous! 😀
Wow! This is one of my favorite basses that I have seen this year….I love the overall design and use of woods throughout as well as all of the features that you added to ensure this bass will play and sound great – superb instrument…….I would definitely consider buying one like this if it was for sale – great work!
Beautiful in all departments.
Jealous of this craftsmenship. Good job!!
I WANT ONE!!!!!!!!
Gorgeous!
I really like that mono rail type bridge and how the that low B and A strings get extra length. Nice job.
OUTSTANDING!.
Now this is a custom instrument to where you see where your money is being spent.
carl S