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08-16-2010, 02:37 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | My Mørch bass -a work in progress
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Hi
I thought I'd like to share my Mørch bass project with you guys. Johnny Mørch is a legendary luthier, who've been making basses for 4 decades (sic!)
Bass is gonna be his classical "curl model"; 5 string, neck-thru, ebony fb (fretted), chambered mahogany body with flamed walnut top, RMC piezo, 2 custom pickups
Bass ordered medio may. ETA for bass: medio november
First, pictures of the neck :
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08-16-2010, 02:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | -Rough outline of the body + neck |
08-16-2010, 02:41 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | Headstock + body parts/fingerboard glueing
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08-16-2010, 02:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | Chambers in the mahogany body, which are just holes I guess!
+Body wing glued with top. -I really like his old tools!
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08-16-2010, 02:49 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | Prototype of custom pickup; polepieces does quite resemble a Nordstrand Big Single.
+Bass glued together
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08-16-2010, 02:53 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | The Man himself + trying out knobs and dots |
08-16-2010, 04:39 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NSB Central Florida | | | Wow! Danes always seem to have impeccable design. Just simply gorgeous!
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08-17-2010, 08:04 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | Thanks, well i dunno 'bout that, but I really like his classical curl design, and didn't trust my own design skill (or lack thereof).
On his website morch-guitars.dk, there's a lot of examples of his builds. A lot of his customers have had him make their original designs, and the results are somewhat mixed IMHO.
Here's a couple of pics of the neck; sanding the fretboard, and inlaying the side positions markers.
The neck wood is maple with two wenge stripes.
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08-17-2010, 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by Ruckus_Instrmts  Wow! Danes always seem to have impeccable design. Just simply gorgeous! | +1.
One of my favorite Tonni Nielsen pipes looks like this one: http://www.danishpipemakers.com/make...peSlices/4.jpg
And I had an S. Bang like this: http://www.danishpipemakers.com/make...indexpop/2.jpg
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08-17-2010, 08:37 AM
|  | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | | that bass is going to be a beauty! I can't wait to see the finished product! |
08-17-2010, 08:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2010 Location: Philadelphia | | | I had never heard of Mørch, but that design is exactly what I've wanted in a custom bass. I can't wait to see how your project turns out! |
08-17-2010, 09:51 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | The two latest pics,
glueing the thing together + happy customer 
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08-18-2010, 04:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | BTW here's what I picked up recently: a Mørch fretless 5'er from the mid-to late 70-ties. Nice bass 
Notice how the design has evolved. It's great to eventually have two basses built by the same man with 35 years between them! |
08-18-2010, 05:13 AM
| | | | Didn't realise he's still building, very nice, the man is a legend indeed (or rather his pickups).
Nice bass! |
08-18-2010, 05:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | He still is, but plans to raising prices as well as accept fewer orders, a kind of semi- retirement I guess. He's 65 but still sharp and vital. (And a great guy) |
08-18-2010, 06:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: NSB Central Florida | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaspar Vadsholt BTW here's what I picked up recently: a Mørch fretless 5'er from the mid-to late 70-ties. Nice bass
Notice how the design has evolved. It's great to eventually have two basses built by the same man with 35 years between them! | Whats funny is that the bass looks like the 70's! I bet it plays like a dream. You should do sound samples of both for enjoyment as well as comparison. 
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08-18-2010, 08:43 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | Yeah, it really has that 70's thing down! It's a boat anchor, and the pup's don't really sit where I'd like them to (think jazz bass), but it really sings and is fun to play, as well as ergonomically right (besides the weight).
I'll post clips when the new one is finished medio november. |
08-18-2010, 08:53 AM
| | put a bird on it | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Minnesota | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaspar Vadsholt BTW here's what I picked up recently: a Mørch fretless 5'er from the mid-to late 70-ties. Nice bass
Notice how the design has evolved. It's great to eventually have two basses built by the same man with 35 years between them! | that's yours? after reading this thread the other day, I checked out the website and i looked through the gallery, and i picked out my favorite from the gallery and that one was it!!! |
08-18-2010, 09:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | I don't think the one one the site is mine, but a twin of sorts.
I bought mine second hand just a couple of weeks ago. |
09-08-2010, 12:18 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Copenhagen | | | Almost ready to lacquer, just a little fine sanding and masking missing.
Notice the backplates of mahogany, the same as the body.
The battery cover is held in place with tiny neodymium magnets.
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