hi guys, im a new member at talk bass. i play guitar and have been getting pretty into bass over the past year. ive built a couple guitars and a bass, along with 4 other builds on the way.
heres the bass that ive made. its virtually finished, just need to do the pickup cover (there is a lip shaped one on the bridge, but i decided to go for a rectangular one, they will be stained red to match the fret markers) as well as the electronics cover and some final sanding and then danish oil it. the neck is a multilaminate one piece neckthrough design. sounds comfusing, but its just like a 1pc maple neck on a fender, but with different pieces of wood. the timbers are new guinea rosewood -wenge -zebrano -wenge -newguinea rosewood. i stained the zebrano instead of fretmarkers. the body wings are ng rosewood as well, as its cheap in australia and has a good tone, and looks pretty interesting. im winding the pickups myself. they have around half the winds of most pickups to get a flatter freq response, and ive put in a simple preamp (stratoblaster) to get the output higher. the preamp isnt working atm as ive left the wires longer than nessisary as i havent finished the wiring (missing a pup) and some wires have been pulled out as i dont have a cover on the back yet.
im also making a 5 string which has a bubinga-maple-bubinga-maple bubinga neck. i cut the back of the neck on the bandsaw to get the part that i will used as the fretboard, to get the continuous laminates through the whole instrument. it will have a tasmanian myrtle body and ill make some completely passive pickups for it using some alnico rod magnets (which is what i used in the other bass as well. here is the timber for it so far.
ive also just finished a 6 string bass, with a 25" scale and played an octave higher at eadgbe.
