{"id":12654,"date":"2019-02-11T14:40:50","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/?p=12654"},"modified":"2019-02-11T15:09:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:09:56","slug":"slimebass-no2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bestbassgear.com\/ebass\/bass-of-the-week\/slimebass-no2.html","title":{"rendered":"[Bass of the Week] SlimeBass No2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The selected bass this week features a\u00a0bass\u00a0that Bastiaan Bargmann built himself. He says:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Story of his build:

This was the second scratch-built bass that I finished. It was actually a twin build, the firstborn was a double-cut fretted and this one, the second-born, was this single-cut fretless. Both had the same construction, neckthrough hippie sandwiches made of walnut, maple, and purpleheart with an ebony fret\/fingerboard and 34″ scale length. The top and back are bookmatched walnut. This one got a glossy polyurethane finish. The electronics are Ghost piezo saddles into a Richter buffer with individual string inputs and straight out to the side-mounted jack, no volume or tone control knobs, for a clean look. The tuners are import Hipshot ultralights, the bridge was hand-fabricated out of ebony. I’m very pleased with the outcome, both the looks and the sound.

I’ve been messing with basses ever since I decided to refinish my Wishbass in 2011, that led me to the Talkbass forum and from there to the Luthier’s Corner. After many years of lurking and soaking up knowledge I eventually gathered the testicular fortitude to start my own scratch build(s). I documented the progress here: https:\/\/www.talkbass.com\/threa
ds\/winter-2017-build-off-first
-scratch-build-walnut-maple-
and-purpleheart-sandwich.1259618\/<\/a> . I love the TB LC (TalkBass Luthier’s Corner), such an inspirational place, as well as being supportive and helpful! It ended up taking just under two years to finish both basses, with the most time spent on finishing (quite the learning curve there). Most of the work was done with hand-tools, with the exception of a drillpress and a dremel. I have now been fully infected by the bass building bug and am currently working on my third build, and hopefully many more in the future. I highly recommend getting into building your own, and to not be afraid to jump into the deep end of the pool, you learn by doing!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n