Recent content by joshpman85

Now that the fronts all carved out its time for the back.. gonna get pretty knarly with this!

Not too sure yet!!

When I made the scarf joint I used 2 layers of veneer, mahogany and maple. When I started shaping the neck, noticed I had a fair bit of veneer covering the back of the headstock, so I just started working with it a bit and that was the result. It gives the headstock abit more strength too

I haven't been on talkbass for over a year or so.. got a few other builds to show, once I get the chance il upload them

Thanks! Devo_stevo! Here's a pic of the back

This is a build I'm currently doing for myself. Body woods are rose mahogany with a laminated section consisting of swamp ash, sheoak and more rose mahogany. Neck is Indian rosewood, headstock is maple, rosewood, Tasmanian oak and a walnut burl veneer headplate. Top is flame maple. Brushbox...

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Just finished this a few weeks back. Quilt maple top, swamp ash body, maple / mahogany / rosewood neck, sheoak headstock and fretboard. String through body g.m.h hardware, wilkinson pickups, passive circuitry 34"scale 22 frets

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Little something im working on:)

whats the correct string spacing for les paul bass pickups:help: does anyone know???

Glad i looked at this!!! Im wiring up 3 pick ups and having a similar problem...

Hi im at the point of wiring up a bass which is my fisrt build! in the neck position ive got a Eb-0 sidewinder, middle has a mucisman style p/u and in the bridge ive got a fender noiseless jazz. 3 volumes and a master tone is whats going to control this bad boy. Now my wiring skills aint the...

What is the most effective way to put the radius on a fret board???

Headstock looks very similar to some cort's out there...