Recent content by JanVanHove

hehe, nice project, and nice usage of one of my mockups... :) For the double-ball issue, there are headpieces that allow you to "lock" the strings even if they have no ball... and it allows more freedom in scale length...

exactly, and this is where Tone War III begins...

Well, yes, and no... You can indeed find a neck online for a bolt-on, but you still have to rout out a neck pocket in your body, which is relatively delicate work... My opinion of this is relatively simple, and is my own only: if a bolt-on neck wraps beyond repair or breaks, you can always...

A bass where the neck extends to the end of the body is called 'neck-through' , or NT, and a bass where it doesn't is either a bolt-on, if the neck is bolted on, or a set neck, if the neck is glued in... Is this what you are reffering to? In that case there are distinct, yet very broadly...

use single string pickups... 5-strings, 4-pickups per string... A nightmare to wire, and not much wood left to hold the bass together, but hey...

I'm gonna have it angled back a bit, I think that the "less than ten degrees" suggestion if pretty good. It should go on an arched body, and so the neck itself is going to have an angle to begin with...

Oh, thanks for reminding me about the Rim basses... they are indeed the general concept I had in mind...

I'm putting together a design that would work relatively well with a slotted head, like vintage gibsons, and I was wondering if that was just stupid... For some reason I'm considering that slotted heads are less structurally solid than flat heads, but maybe I'm wrong... I haven't been able...

oh, I agree with you on that one... pickups and tuning machines make up most the materials cost, unless you jump into the burl pool...

it's a matter of supply and demand, I guess... Oak trees are common, maybe, but Oak wood is very widely used in flooring and for making furniture... it's in higher demand, so price rises...

hehe... considering that my first bass was built in Cherry, and that my second one is being built in Oak, I guess that I'm just wierd... :P

Warwick wenge necks are more than just two blocks of wenge... Keep in mind that any neck make of many pieces will be more solid than a one-piece neck... For a wenge neck, I suggest splitting your first wenge block in three, inverting the middle piece, and gluing the thing back together. This...

Thanks for the heads up! gloves and mask it is it seems!

Thanks, guys! :) Robert, about the truss rods... For different reasons I'm gonna go with one: 1- The string spacing is gonna be relatively narrow, so the neck is not gonna be an ironing board.... 2- The single cut body attached to the neck at the 12th fret, greatly reducing stress on the...

There's a saying in french "Là où il y a de la gêne, il y a pas de plaisir", roughly translated: where there's shame there's no pleasure... So in that spirit, and inspired by the great projects I've seen here in the last few months... I present my second project: Ok, the photoshop is a...