Recent content by epsmith

Hi, Not logged in here for years but still read a bit and seen your post. It looks like either the Nimbus or Arpeggio body shape. Check the body styles section here... Hanewinckel Guitars if you get in touch with Pete I'm sure he can give you some more information, he is a very helpful guy...

Beautiful. Über-beautiful!

Carl would be proud of that one..

The Smiths - barbarism begins at home Paul Simon - diamonds on the soles of her shoes (badly, but great fun to play!) Stevie Wonder - master blaster

Totally agree with the other guys, if it's painted it is probably different pieces of wood glued together, otherwise they would of done a natural finish. I stripped mine (97 MIJ p-bass), this will give you an idea of what it could look like

Gorgeous! Love ur builds, great attention to detail, but ur finishing is probably some of the best I've seen on this site. The shot of the back of the bass is my fav, u got skills....

Very cool. Is the passive Villex controls you got there vol, vol, bass-mid-treb? Curious about this system, not much info on his website, was thinking of trying my hand at another build in the summer and contemplating giving this passive system a shot...

Mike Watt has done some great stuff... Firehose

Apologies. Took some liberties there I guess! From the horses mouth then. "I got that from listening to Hendrix, and then when I got with Stevie a lot of his stuff was in Eb so I just left it that way. I have to transcribe when I read music, but tuning down gives it a looser feel, it gives me...

Only recently found out that Stevie Wonder's bass player, Nathan Watts, always tunes his basses down half a step. Reckons it makes him sound more fluid and funkier...

No sound clips, sorry, must sit down and actually do that some day... The woods were chosen by me, thought mahogany and walnut was a fairly common choice for body woods in a bass?

My hanewinckel, walnut top with walnut block inlays in the ebony fretboard.

Candle wax, so good to know, wish I had that info before I snapped a screw when putting a neck on! I think this bass is looking great, I like how the rear of the scratch plate seems to mirror the shape of the upper horn, very nice. Personally I like the idea of a string through bass, mostly for...

How about the neck bolt layout like in JIO's build? I think it looks really good... http://www.talkbass.com/forum/f57/custom-performer-supersonic-bass-904968/index4.html

Tim Commerford played jazz basses with a p neck for most of his time with RATM I believe.