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01-03-2011, 02:26 PM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | | 4 strings fretless build
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Hello! Not posted anything here for months... but now I wanted to show off this build. The owner wanted a warm but focused sounding fretless, lined and not too heavy.
The specs were decided were:
34" scale
21 lines
Padouk neck
Wengé fingerboard with Maple lines
Okoumé body with a slightly modified "SWAN" shape
2 AlNiCo5 humbuckers
front routing for controls with Padouk cover
Chrome hardware.
This is the fingerboard (raw and slotted). |
01-06-2011, 03:47 AM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | | Progress on the neck/fingerboard. |
01-06-2011, 04:15 AM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Cool!
Wenge's a pretty odd choice for a fretless board, that'll be unfinished, right?
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01-06-2011, 05:28 AM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | Some lemon oil, that's it 
It's not an odd choice, I'm not the only builder who uses it a lot. I made lots of fretless fingerboard with Wengé, Bubinga, Padouk, Cocobolo... more than Ebony. |
01-06-2011, 05:35 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | I've seen plenty of them fretted, but never fretless, should be cool as heck.
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01-06-2011, 05:39 AM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | Body and neck glued in. Of course I'm showing pics of a completed build, it would be wonderful to work on 1 bass only, the progress would be fastest. 
Follow the thread and you'll see how the fingerboard looked finished.  |
01-06-2011, 11:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Montréal | | | Very nice looking, I like the rounded headstock. |
01-06-2011, 11:43 AM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | Thanx, glad you like it! |
01-06-2011, 11:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Bergen County, New Jersey | | | Looks sweet so far, I'm watchin' now!
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01-06-2011, 01:40 PM
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Owner, builder: jworrellbass | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Colorado Springs CO | | | Looks pretty sweet. I know in the past you've made your own pickups, are you making these as well?
BTW, it's nice to see you post again. |
01-06-2011, 01:51 PM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | Yes, I'm always using my pickups that are actually available as single and humbucker with AlNiCo, Neo and Ceramic magnets in wood and plastic shells. |
01-08-2011, 07:15 AM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | Pics of the finished product
You can judge yourself how the Wengé fingerboard turned out. The guy who ordered it was extremely happy and so was I.  |
01-08-2011, 07:46 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Looks fantastic!
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01-08-2011, 08:28 AM
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Bass Builder | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Europe | | Thanx! One of those basses that made me think "Oh well, I should make a clone of this for myself" 
Here you can see the fingerboard a bit better. |
01-08-2011, 08:52 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | I can see why!
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