Recent content by ThickBassSteaks

The current finish is a blonde poly, I’m not concerned with making it match at all. (If it came out like @2saddleslab’s up above I’d be 100% pleased)

Given a slab body that is already finished, what’s a smart way for me to add arm and belly contours? I don’t want to do a total refinish, any new exposed wood will just get a coat of oil or shellac. Leaning toward using a rasp and files, I don’t currently have a belt sander or anything else...

Is it any less legitimate to make a bass guitar from a guitar than it is to make it from planks of wood? At this price point I think it’s a bit unusual to be concerned about the provenance of the input materials.

I feel like if your show is boring enough that people are scrutinizing your headstock to see if something’s clipped on, you have a more important problem to solve

Ended up talking myself into the dual-reverse on this nice lightweight Dinky-J! Now to choose a finish...

That’s a bold and authoritative claim which probably would have been better worded as “I personally don’t consider the Les Paul to be a signature guitar, even though it is literally a guitar model designed by and for the musician whose signature is emblazoned on each and every headstock of that...

I’m not sure how you could arrive at this answer. Lay a bass string from bridge to nut. Either the silk will be in a nut slot or not. Cutting additional length from the end of the string will have no bearing whatsoever on whether the silk is in the nut slot.

So ~1.5ish years down the line, how does Rubio hold up as an instrument finish? I have a swamp ash body coming in, and I've been looking for a low VOC way to finish it, and I quite like the matte look of this finish. If my body comes sanded to 220, will I need to bring it down to 150 for proper...

That's great info, thanks! Very good point here as well! While there is a reverse-P mystique that interests me, might be best to stick with what I know (and minimize the number of "custom" routes) unless someone comes in and makes a very compelling argument

After going a long stretch of time with no P-bass pickups in my life, I have a bass with one and I'm starting to feel like if 1 is great, 2 might be amazing. So I'm thinking it might be time to assemble a parts bass. Warmoth only offers a P pup in the neck position on their forms, but pretty...

Here’s something harder on a short scale bass: fretless intonation. A smaller movement of the finger leads to a bigger shift in pitch, which can make it difficult! (I am currently learning to play fretless, and I only have a short scale so I’m really doing it the hard way!)

I’ve had a P46 laying around for about a year, finally popped it into a fretless Warmoth P I put together a few years ago. Wow. These pickups definitely don’t need help in the volume department! I had them cranked pretty low to keep them out of the way while getting things set up, expecting I’d...

A maple board fretless P always makes me do a double take, but this one made me do a triple take! Really makes me want to learn fretless

Is that a really fortuitous shadow, or did he paint the side of the store like half of a guitar peghead?

That’s just it though, whatever brainpower you expend on trying to silence inherently noisy strings is brainpower unavailable for other things (including making good music).