4 string 35"

[low end fuzz]

this is as basic of a bass i have ever made;
but for some reason im very proud; mostly because of the quikness and cleanliness of the entire project, plus new methods in construction that really sped up production, at the same time new to me;

i got another 4 thats a 34" that is more my style ,i'll put somtin up when i get it finished;
you can have a look around my photobucket if you are intersted;
thanx much
http://s68.photobucket.com/albums/i23/lowendfuzz/quilt/

[joeyl]

nice clean bass, reminds me of the Ibanez Soundgear, that it is a compliment btw. How about some specs on woods used etc. Love the shell inlay

[jordan_frerichs]

so what are your methods that helped speed up, and what were the previous methods?

[low end fuzz]

1 pc.maple neck (usually 3-5 pc.)
alder 2pc body (usually natural exotic, which takes forever to sand, not that i mind, but this only got sanded to 100 before i epoxied)
badass2 bridge
bartolini jazz pups and 2 band preamp
alot of the new methods were small stuff that saved extra work for me;
i always tried to save as much wood as posible, so i would glue up 3 pc necks with the side profile cut out of the slab, throw them together and add ears to the head;
but then when i would go to channel the rod, id have those ears in the way; first i had an ovrhead setup, guiding the router along a straightedge; but even that took too long;
so now (i know im not the only one, so im not saying im a genius that invented this method or anything!) i glue up a square blank and run it across the router tables fence; i also drop it just past where my fb starts so i can 'swoop' the headstock up thru the excess of the board w/o having a hole under the fb,this also allows me to have a step ala fender but still have a slight angle to the point that 4 a side still wont need a tree. and then i throw in a bullnose and drop the blank on it just before the end of the fb all the way to the end for my truss adjust in the heel; i used to have them in the headstock but theyre sooo ugly up there.
the blank mesures 2.5 x 3 x 38" and i get a scarfable guitar blank or one of the same method w/ trees using the cutoff from the cutting out the profile (of the bass neck)
i decided to front mount the input (unless asked otherwise) this maybe lazy but its much better for setup of tooling cause i only have 1 drill press,
besides that its just a compilation of everything ive learned over the past while, superglue your frets, clean your fb with a scraper before trying to sand, fitting the neck in the pocket and making a new center line;(hopefully its not tooo far off your 'visual' center) but id rather have all my pups and bridge alinged with my neck than my decorative wood accents!
drilling an extra forstner hole in the pup cavity to let the wire hang down keeping it out of the way,
and any hole that gets a screw gets veneer shoved in it, just for that extra grab, i find it helps