first build singlecut

[stringplayer]

this is my first trie of making my own bass

34.7scale
5piece neck: maple/purplehart/maple/purplehart/maple
paraju/ bulletwood fretboard
walnut body with mahogany top
fatstack pickups with wooden pickupcover

still thinking how to make wooden knobs
wilkinson tuners
homemade bridge

the wood:

very bad picture

beter picture of the fretboard:


the top not bookmatcht yet:


everything together:


promo model of the bridge:


and uuhhh sorry for the bad english!!

[grace & groove]

Really nice shape! Take some pictures of this bass outside once you're done, I don't think I've ever seen anything in Belgium before.

[stringplayer]

yes i"ll do that!!

when its going to be ready it will possibly be summer and then the weather is nice!!

but now

[grace & groove]

Same here. We had a weird winter, not a lot of snow this year but it got cold three months earlier than usual, and it is still cold, a month later (so far) than usual.

[stringplayer]

also weird here

not a cold winter at all
i did not see any snow

and last it snowd practicly every day

[eleonn]

String Player do you have the latin name of the bulletwod you are using?

I used for my first project a local wood called here Quinilla which its "international name" bulletwood (I've seen the name peruvian cherry in some websites too). The latin is Manilkara Bidendata. I loved to use it. Its hard and pretty dense and if your wood is the same as mine Id like to know what you feel working with it.

BTW, its a really nice wood to use for FB.

[stringplayer]

I bought it as paraju but you have a lot of different names:

Acana, Aus, Ausabo, Balata, Balata franc, Balata gomme, Balata rouge, Beefwood, Bolletri, Bolletrie, Bulletwood, Chicozapota, Macaranduba, Maparajuba, Massarandu, Nispero, Pamashto, Paraju, Quinilla colorada, Red balata Acana, Aus, A


it's nice working with

very very hard
but easy to work with

[waseok]

Cool bridge!

[eleonn]

Originally Posted by stringplayer

I bought it as paraju but you have a lot of different names:

Acana, Aus, Ausabo, Balata, Balata franc, Balata gomme, Balata rouge, Beefwood, Bolletri, Bolletrie, Bulletwood, Chicozapota, Macaranduba, Maparajuba, Massarandu, Nispero, Pamashto, Paraju, Quinilla colorada, Red balata Acana, Aus, A


it's nice working with

very very hard
but easy to work with

Yep. We are using the same wood as fretboard and it is definitely a nice wood to work with. I haven't heard of anybody else using this wood in bass building and I wonder why. Its pretty dense, stable, looks good...

Ill keep a look in your project.

[stringplayer]

I even think that paraju is harder than ebony

[eleonn]

It is not but its pretty close. Ebony's janka is 3220, bulletwood's 3190. Compression numbers are that close too. I used two pieces of Bulletwood for my project cause I scrw the first one I bought and it was nicer than the second I got. Im used a zero fret and the nuts slot was too close to the zeros fret slot so it can be use for a later project.

Here are some pics of the pieces I got.

This is the first blank I got.



This is the second one. Its not a close-up but it was the only I that shows the whole fretboard.



Being a local wood they were pretty cheap and still have a piece of the second one big enough for another two fretboards.

[stevetx19]

That is looking very nice; i cant wait to see more of this one.

Its cool to see some tbers (and luthiers) from Belgium, most of my family lives there and i love visiting.

peace

[stringplayer]

yes its a very cheap wood

i think i payed around 15dollars for the blank

[DanielM]

looks good stringplayer. based in Gent eh, does that mean you're doing the Lutherie school at the local Conservatorium? or are you just a hobby-ist?

[eleonn]

I payed about 4 for the second one which was thick enough for 3 fretboards

[stringplayer]

it is pure a new hobby of mine, but i do have somebody who is helping me to do the difficult parts who studied lutherie at conservatorium

[stringplayer]

some new pictures

the top glued up



laminates glued up



final bridge en knobs

[stringplayer]

some new pictures



the scarfjoint



the front of teh headstock



the new bridge

[waseok]

very nice scarf joint!
btw that bridge is killer but why u didnt use the first one?
Great job, love it!

[stringplayer]

because I can't find those little sadles