Who's working on some nice basses right now? This forum needs a slight lift, or is it bump?... Anyway, show 'em if you got 'em. This can include but is not limited to: already finished or discarded projects.:)

I have two in the works, but they are secret.

Insert evil laugh.....:hiding:

I've got a jazz copy I built (except the neck - didn't have the resources), a single cut (wood and hardware ordered), and a double cut (have the wood, no harware - waiting to complete the single cut before I move on to this).

(You know, there's a "Where's the beef? (http://www.talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138963)" thread, right?)

Just bought my maple top on Ebay.
http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e327/Greenman44ca/th_mapletop.jpg (http://i42.photobucket.com/albums/e327/Greenman44ca/mapletop.jpg)
I found some nice mahogany 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 24 at a local lumber stoere (not home Depot). They call it craft wood. I'm going to order a neck from Warmoth next payday.

This is one I started not too long ago. I stopped all other work (non-comissioned) because this is to be my main 4 string fretted. It's got an amboyna burl top, curly maple core and quilted maple back, one piece hard maple neck with macassar ebony fingerboard. I just shaped the back of the neck this morning. It's to have a quad-coil bridge pickup and a P neck pickup.

Just finish my first build.

I have 4 on order

1 6 string fretless bass

1 4 string fretted bass

2 6 string guitars.

I am excited and scared to have some paying customers but dang...

That may have been a wood joke, however corny it may be.I found some nice mahogany 3/4 x 7 1/2 x 24 at a local lumber stoere (not home Depot). They call it craft wood.I'm most envious of all you people with local places to get wood. I've got to drive 2.5 hours for a less than decent selection/quality or order it online. :crying:

This is one I started not too long ago. I stopped all other work (non-comissioned) because this is to be my main 4 string fretted. It's got an amboyna burl top, curly maple core and quilted maple back, one piece hard maple neck with macassar ebony fingerboard. I just shaped the back of the neck this morning. It's to have a quad-coil bridge pickup and a P neck pickup.

that's a sweet bass, wilser...that neck looks very comfortable...

that's a sweet bass, wilser...that neck looks very comfortable...

Thanks!

Miranda (my youngest daughter) agrees! She loves a smooth feeling maple neck.

Great stuff , learned about all my custom builders here, and I am VERY grateful for the posts, pics, reviews and such. Shouts out to Bud Lecompte, Matt Schmill, Wilser(very nice work), Scott French('cuz his designs ROCK!!) and all the rest of the luthiers who share their talent and techniques here. I have seen some incredible talent in this forum.

Here's a couple I'm working on.

Thats a good looking bass Jeeperb. What type of pickups did you use?

Wilser, I like that top. Is it redwood burl? Nice work.

...Wilser, I like that top. Is it redwood burl? Nice work.

It's amboyna burl. The top is only sanded down to 80 grit. That thing is gonna POP when scraped and finished. I've already scraped a piece of scrap and it's really beautiful. Will post pics when finished.

count_funkula, do I spy a padouk board, or bloodwood?

Phil,

It's bloodwood. I've really come to like it as fretboard material. I haven't tried Padouk. I'm going to do a bound and blocked neck with a bloodwood fretboard soon.

Phil,

It's bloodwood. I've really come to like it as fretboard material. I haven't tried Padouk. I'm going to do a bound and blocked neck with a bloodwood fretboard soon.

I'll probably make my fretless bloodwood with wenge binding. I thought I had some spare ebony, but alas :rolleyes:
Wenge'll do fine.

count_funkula

Thank you I used Bartolini MC44 soap bars in it and a bart NTBT 3.3 pre amp the sound is fantastic. :) Nice looking stuff you make as well

Brandon

A couple of VB's.

Hope to be spraying this one real soon.
http://www.lecomptebass.com/images/misc/steve-vb5-19.jpg

This one's a lefty, short scale four string with a macassar ebony top on Santos mahogany.
http://www.lecomptebass.com/images/misc/tom-vb4-07.jpg

Here's a couple I'm working on.

That's a very cool looking design.

WOW!!

Your's too Bud. What kind of pups are you putting in it?

It's amboyna burl. The top is only sanded down to 80 grit. That thing is gonna POP when scraped and finished. I've already scraped a piece of scrap and it's really beautiful. Will post pics when finished.

you scrape your wood? wow! like the violin makers do?

I'd love to observe someone doing that some day.

Your's too Bud. What kind of pups are you putting in it?

The five string is getting Bartolini P2's (or was it BC's) with series/single coil/parallel switching and an Aguilar OBP-3 with a mid-frequency switch and an A/P switch. That's why there's so many holes.

The four string short scale will have a single Seymour Duncan
SCPB-3 quarter-pounder, '51 P-bass style. It'll be passive.