Recent content by 14rcole

I am a pianist and a bassist so I use my fingers quite a bit. When I am not playing however, my fingers get cold and stiff because I have poor circulation. Are there any hand exercises that I could do to either loosen my hand up, strengthen my hand, or improve my speed/dexterity without having...

I know but I can try.

Does this mean that I should have a maple fretboard too? I couldn't decide on what to use. Will maple be a good wood for a fretless? I don't want to put in frets and then mess up the measurements so I figured I would play it safe.

I'm currently building a bass and was trying to decide on what wood to use. I'm looking for a classic jazz sound like that of Jaco Pastorius (although I could never be that good). I was going to buy a swamp ash body blank but they're expensive and I realized that I have a mahogany blank that I...