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My New In Progress Fretless Pics

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Peter Parker

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This is a bass I've been building for the last while. It features a set-neck, walnut body with purpleheart top and maple accent, maple neck with Diamondwood birdseye fingerboard, matching p/u cover of walnut/maple/purpleheart, and not pictured a purpleheart control cavity plate. This is the forth bass I've built and so far the best. With the very few tools I own I am very pleased with the outcome thus far. The pics are after the first coat of oil. I should have it finished in a couple of weeks.

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#11
Thanks everyone :smug:

JP, I believe the neck joint is exactly like Fodera's, at least as far as I can tell. I love their joint and from looking at it I believe mine is the same. I wish I would have thought to take pics as I went along. I would like to have seen them myself.

Adrian, thanks for your comments on the lines of the bass. I know it's not very original or unique but I guess I kind of like the more simple designs. I made an odd design last time and really liked it right after I built it. But a month later I couldn't stand to look at it. I just prefer a more traditional look.
 
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nonsqtr said:
Hi Peter, that's a cool looking neck joint. Would you mind sharing a few details with us, on how you did that?
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Let's see if I can explain. I cut a tenon in the neck leaving about 5mm of the fingerboard hanging on each side of the tenon that follows the taper of the neck. To follow the walnut/maple veneer motif of the body I cut out pieces of walnut that fit snug to the tenon and then laminated the veneer. The 5mm of overhang is glued right to the face of the giving a very neat appearance. The tenon is inserted into a routed out slot in the face of the bass. That's the only way I know to explain it. It's also the only way I will do a neck again as I think it offers everything I would want in a bass: great bolt-on response with the neck-thru type of sustain allowing the body wood to have a bugger effect on the tone. So the next bass I build, I will be sure to take pics of the joint in progress.
 
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Here's a few bad pics of the finished bass. I can't quite capture the figure in the top but you get the idea. The second pic is pretty dark but I thought it looked cool :) Also, it will have chrome knobs instead of the black. Hopefully they will arrive tomorrow.

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