Second Draft of Bass Body - Please Comment

ogrossman · #1 09-29-2006, 08:40 PM

Please take a second to have a look and tell me what you think.

I'm working on a design for my first build project. It's a bass body and I'd like it to be a cross between a Stingray and a Jazz. I got some good feed back on the first draft and went back to the drawing board (second draft is on the right).

Thanks

http://home.comcast.net/~keskite/bass_idea.htm

spudmaster34 · #2 09-29-2006, 08:53 PM

I really hope you don't mind, I made a rough change to the pickguard, this is more my style, I don't know if you like it or not, obviously it is just a rough addition,

ogrossman · #3 09-29-2006, 08:58 PM

I appreciate the feed back but I was trying to go for the 'tear drop' shaped pick guard that the Stingray has... and then the fender jazz theme on the bridge end of the body.

Akami · #4 09-29-2006, 09:55 PM

I like the first one better.

You didn't ask but I would also have a preference for the Stingray pickup to be swapped for a Sterling pickup and put in the bridge position, giving you MusicMan tone or the ability to go single coil without the single coil hum, thanks to the dummy coil.

spudmaster34 · #5 09-29-2006, 10:02 PM

ok, cool. I like the design, be sure to keep us posted on the construction process.

Cerb · #6 09-29-2006, 10:51 PM

I like the first as well.

SBassman · #7 09-29-2006, 11:03 PM

I like your second draft better. Nice work.

69nites · #8 09-30-2006, 02:24 AM

as I said about the first on it was the sex

The second one looks good too but the first one was better IMO

69nites · #9 09-30-2006, 02:33 AM

yeah I really liked the top half from the first draft and the bottom half from the second draft

for an Immage

the green line is where I cut it

Akami · #10 09-30-2006, 03:37 AM

Except it makes the pickguard look like a goosehead!

Hambone · #11 10-01-2006, 01:48 PM

I don't know if this is where you were going with the design, but it looks like you could take a standard Jazz and carve this design straight from it without needing to add a thing. Just shape the horns, and trim the pickguard and you'll have the parts for this design.

Sure would save some time!

mahrous · #12 10-01-2006, 03:10 PM

yeah i was thinking something like hambone's here. its close to a jazz bass with a tint of Sterling

Suburban · #13 10-02-2006, 07:45 AM

1st: pretty P-ish
2nd: veryvery J-ish

I prefer the first.

Scott in Dallas · #14 10-02-2006, 10:10 AM

It's a Jazz with more Fender-like horns to me. It's what I would do to a Jazz if I were rethinking the shape. Nice lines.

RWP · #15 10-02-2006, 10:34 AM

Both nice but I like #2 better.