I started this bass with the intention of entering it into Talk Bass’s Winter Build Off. However I’m a slow builder and ended up missing the deadline by about 4 months. The parameters of the contest were to challenge yourself with things you’d never done before, so I decided to: <\/p>\n
1. Build a neck-thru 32″ scale
\n2. Carve a neck
\n3. Fret it
\n4. Build the pickups by modding a couple of lipsticks
\n5. Wire for stereo
\n6. String thru bridge
\n7. Use a new finishing technique (Water-based Polyurethane)<\/p>\n
The neck is a traditional laminate of maple and walnut, the body wings are poplar with mahogany veneer and double bound. The fretboard I is rosewood that I got pre-radiused to 12″ and pre-slotted. The bound headstock was the result of a needing to fix a mistake in cutting the headstock angle with a maple cap; I decided at that point to veneer the headstock as well and bind it also; in the end I think that was a happy mistake as I love the look that resulted.<\/p>\n
The pickups are 4 lipsticks, 2 of which I modded for RWRP by disassembling the tubes and flipping the coil-magnet assembly over and re-assembling. Each of the Vol and Tone controls are 500K push-pulls, the volume controls pull out to select single-coil while the tone control push-pulls do phase-reversal or coil selection when coil-splitting. I made both the pickguard and the polished aluminum plate for the bridge pickup.<\/p>\n
The tuners are Hipshot Ultralites<\/a>, I chose these particular individual saddles after seeing a fellow TB’er use them and love the look. She’s strung up with GHS medium scales<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Well done!<\/p>\n Want YOUR<\/i> bass to be featured for Bass of the Week? This feature build is Rickenbacker inspired (obviously,) but absolutely has its own character and style. Builder Jon Clegg writes: I started this bass with the intention of entering it into Talk Bass’s Winter Build Off. However I’m a slow builder and ended up missing the deadline by about 4 months. The parameters of the contest … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19],"tags":[29],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/GEDC0872.jpg\")
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