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again something from me (the 3.series is coming alive)

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fuNKmaster83

Apr 3, 2006
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after more than a year i am happy that constructions are coming together... first two pieces are almost finished... i am just waiting for pots to arrive so i can wire them properly... for now i have hard-wired the PU to the jack and it sounds awesome...

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a layout of knobs... what do you think???

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thats all for now... till the end of this month i hope to finish 5 basses... maybe 6??? and there is a lot more still in progress!!!

if any one has any questions please ask i will be happy to answer...
 
#7
Thompson Twins! :)

Seriously, they look very cool. Love the contrasting inlays on the fretless too!

They need wooden knobs, not black plastic.
 
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i know wooden knobs would look great (btw i have bell amber knobs, but they did not go with these two basses)... but my concept is building out of recycled materials... almost all of my pickups are from guitars that are beyond repair... even bridges came from old basses... and so does my vast collection of knobs... they are all vintage... even wood i salvage from people that intend to make it into fire wood... most of the time i get there before it is chopped to 30cm length ;) that's why i have so many stripes i just cant throw away any piece of wood... even small stripes that i cut off and curves that i cut off get used... if not as stripes then as heads or electronic covers, even nuts...

and above that i want my basses to feel as if the are 200 and more years old... but the important parts such as pickups, tuners and bridges are almost new (60' or 70' feel)... i like to imagine that i breathe a new life to things that are forgotten... i take and old soul of a bass and put it into a new body ;) but how would an old soul feel in a new body??? that's why i make everything feel old ;)

that wood in the back is something unusual... i need to find out its proper name in Latin but its a tree that grows in the gardens... its an intersting tree and the wood is like green/yellow with purple/brown stripes... its a bout alders density...
 
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here are some shots of that wood when we cut it apart in the shop...

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i have a vast collection of wood around the house and in the shop... lots of fruit trees from apple, pear, plum, cherry... 6 different types of maple, 3 different types of alder... i try to build exclusively out of domestic woods... we in Slovenia have more than 200 tree types... so only rain forests have more ;)

the rosewood is an exception cuz its not domestic but i bought it 10years ago and now its all used up... i made almost 16 fingerboards out of that piece that i bought...
 
#19
Sumac grows all over the place here in Wisconsin. I've never seen it large enough to be useful for woodworking. It does have a pretty grain.

The tree is beautiful in the fall when the leaves turn fiery red.

Beautiful basses. I appreciate your commitment to using local woods and recycled materials.

I like the feel of rosewood fretboards. I wonder if there's temperate zone wood that would work as a substitute.
 

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