Recent content by Carbonista

Just a quick preview of the hardware on the body of the bass, minus a pickup. Sorry about the bad lighting. Just a quick preview of the hardware on the bass body by Carbonista posted Apr 3, 2017 at 11:48 PM Here I'm adding two smaller pieces of maple at the headstock to accommodate the width...

Now here comes perhaps one of the more unorthodox parts of this build. I opted for a 3-piece maple laminate construction for the neck and I constructed those laminates using a CNC-machine. This way I got the proper headstock angle without having to make a scarf joint with the bonus of having the...

The back side of the alder body. At this point there is a pronounced visual difference between the two halves that will go away later on when I start sanding the body. I added a rounded contour to the neck heel both for aesthetics and ergonomics. Back side by Carbonista posted Apr 3, 2017 at...

Here's the rough body shape cut out, ready for routing: Rough body cut by Carbonista posted Apr 3, 2017 at 8:03 PM The glue joint between the body and the top that I was pretty happy with: Glue joint by Carbonista posted Apr 3, 2017 at 8:03 PM Starting the process of routing the body with...

Shopping for Alder and Maple at a local lumberyard. We found an alder board wide enough to make one-piece guitars out of which got the guitarmaker I'm working with excited to no end. wood shopping by Carbonista posted Apr 3, 2017 at 7:54 PM I ended up using two pieces of alder for the body...

So the first stage of the build was to make the routing template for the body. I took a large piece of MDF and started jotting down all the basic measurements that were based on a fretless Jazz bass that I own. I cut out the template and painstakingly finished and perfected it by hand. I noticed...

I've been playing and noodling on the electric bass since my early teens but I took a long hiatus from playing to travel around the world and study engineering. But about a year or so ago I got the urge to start playing again and started thinking seriously about building a bass of my own. I've...

The balance has more to do with where the center of mass of the bass as a whole ends up, and the placement of the strap pins. The total center of mass is influenced by every single component in the bass and it's therefore not really a matter of whether the body is symmetrical or not. Sure...

As someone who has recently started building basses and is a big fan of Zon necks, this thread is very intriguing. JMorciglio, how would you characterize the acoustical properties of the carbon laminate necks you've built? Longer sustain? Any dead notes? Does the tone become more sterile as...