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Club Stambaugh - Show your Stammies!! [Part 3]
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My final Stambaugh is starting to work itself out in my brain, but my main concern is body wood. I'm definitely going with a bolt-on wenge neck, wenge board, probably a zebrano top, and definitely an oil finish. Same body as my other two, but I'm going to keep it the standard body thickness as opposed to making it Fender thickness like my white one - I need it to be closer to the weight of my fretless (ebony board, maple neck, bubinga top, limba and maple body) than the white one (maple/maple/ash.)
Ash body? Mahogany? Maple?
Ash body? Mahogany? Maple?
Recently started talking to Chris again. I might be able to order in the next month o two. I'm still leaning towards a J-JJ 6er, but might look at something with a two tone amboyna burl top, Aero DCs, and a Pope pre, depending on if Chris finds a nice buckeye burl or two tone amboyna burl.
Unfortunately I had to back out of an ACG Recurve 6 to pay for cost overruns with my wedding. So I still have a custom 6 itch that selling more gear will allow me to scratch. So I'm talking to Chris about my third and final Stambaugh.
I was considering doing a six string version in the same vein as my first two, possibly as a singlecut this time:
but I like the twins as they are and want to do something different.
So I'm going with the ODB shape
This one will be a fanfret sixer in standard tuning (BEADGC) with the scale probably running 36" to 33"
I'm looking at doing a flamed maple top (and maybe back), port orford cedar body with some light chambering, Aero pickups (either completely passive or with a Glock or Pope pre if I go active) and a maple fingerboard.
I'm unsure on neck woods. I'm going for a deep, piano like tone with this one so I'm thinking either maple or hard ash with stringers of walnut or paduak. But I want to see what Chris recommends.
One thing I am doing is a burst stain with a tung oil finish. Like the guitar on the left in this picture.
Can't wait to see this one come to life.
I was considering doing a six string version in the same vein as my first two, possibly as a singlecut this time:
but I like the twins as they are and want to do something different.
So I'm going with the ODB shape
This one will be a fanfret sixer in standard tuning (BEADGC) with the scale probably running 36" to 33"
I'm looking at doing a flamed maple top (and maybe back), port orford cedar body with some light chambering, Aero pickups (either completely passive or with a Glock or Pope pre if I go active) and a maple fingerboard.
I'm unsure on neck woods. I'm going for a deep, piano like tone with this one so I'm thinking either maple or hard ash with stringers of walnut or paduak. But I want to see what Chris recommends.
One thing I am doing is a burst stain with a tung oil finish. Like the guitar on the left in this picture.
Can't wait to see this one come to life.
Zebrano looks and feels fantastic with an oil finish. A maple body is going to be heavy. Mahogany and ash both vary but are generally lighter and can be very light. My fretted Stambaugh has a Mahogany body and it is about 7lbs. Every piece of wood is different but mahogany always seems rounder and smoother than ash to me.
Nice. Curious to see how this one turns out.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked. I plan on having both eventually, so I'll be happy whichever bass starts first.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked. I plan on having both eventually, so I'll be happy whichever bass starts first.
Exactly how many basses do you own at this point?
As for me, this is it. I've gone through a truckload of other basses but I haven't once thought of selling either of my Stambaughs. My Valenti P5 is passive and strung with flats for that vintage thump. My fretted Stambaugh covers super jazz type tones, I love my fretless and the upcoming sixer will do cover the modern/hi-fi sounds.
I like having an acoustic and I haven't played upright in years so a EUB is something I'd like to add, but as far as electric basses, these four will be it for me.
Exactly how many basses do you own at this point?
As for me, this is it. I've gone through a truckload of other basses but I haven't once thought of selling either of my Stambaughs. My Valenti P5 is passive and strung with flats for that vintage thump. My fretted Stambaugh covers super jazz type tones, I love my fretless and the upcoming sixer will do cover the modern/hi-fi sounds.
I like having an acoustic and I haven't played upright in years so a EUB is something I'd like to add, but as far as electric basses, these four will be it for me.
I have 14 at the moment, but a few are "place holders" until I need to sell them.....cuz the wife sez so.
My tastes really haven't changed all that much over the years, but I've accumulated a little redundancy. My only real regret was a Peavey that was ok, but I got my name inlaid, so I probably couldn't even sell it if I wanted to.
Is yours a neck-through or bolt-on? What other woods?
My plan was to do a bolt-on wenge neck and board. That, with zebrano top, mahogany body, and an MM+J set of Nordstrands would be a pretty nice instrument, I think?
Hey Jason.
My fretted pictured above is a bolt-on mahogany body with a walnut top (and maple inlay) with a maple/bubinga neck. The fretless is a set neck and has a zebrano top (I asked for a wider striped zebrano piece) on a bubinga body with a wenge/maple/zebrano neck.
The difference in weight between the two basses is pretty substantial (about 7 pounds vs close to 10) which I attribute mostly to the light mahogany body vs the heavy bubinga one. But the wenge neck is also noticeably heavier than the maple one.
Chris would know better than I would but I might be a bit concerned with neckdive with a wenge neck if the mahogany for the body is on the light side. Other than that it sounds like a killer bass to me.
Awesome, thanks for the info. I'll see what Chris says about neck dive. I'd go with whatever makes it neckdive the least while staying the lightest. Not budging on the wenge, though. 
My white bass seems like it needs some fret tending - would it be a horrible idea to have it Plek'd at the Lakland factory in Chicago?
My white bass seems like it needs some fret tending - would it be a horrible idea to have it Plek'd at the Lakland factory in Chicago?
What are your guys thoughts on using two tone amboyna burl as inlays? I just sent Chris an e-mail a few minutes ago, but figured I'd check around. I was thinking bird's eye maple or pao fero for the fingerboard, depending on which looks/sounds better.
Are you talking about block inlays on the fingerboard?
I think it would depend on what color the fingerboard is and whether both colors of the amboyna burl contrast well enough to be seen. If not, it may look odd from a distance.
Link Removed has amboyna burl block inlays that I really dig.
I'm now officially in line for my third Stambaugh and Chris and I are starting to finalize the specs.
Six string (BEADGC) in the ODB shape
Multiscale (fan frets) running 36"-33"
Port orford cedar body core
Redwood top and back
Custom Aeros
Either passive or with the Pope pre
Maple fingerboard
Ah, hadn't seen that Ramirez in a while. I guess it looks good, so perhaps it's not a bad idea. I guess I can reference that if Chris wants to see what it might look like.
Kinda surprised you didn't go with that Guild shape. You had a bit of a "thing" going on there.
Kinda surprised you didn't go with that Guild shape. You had a bit of a "thing" going on there.
I wish there were more youtube videos of stambaugh basses. :-( any of you know of any, other than the videos that come up when you search "stambaugh bass" ?
WoW! Well done! very nice!! I hope YOU like it hahaha, enjoy it! cant wait for my stammy!
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