- Jun 30, 2010
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Got the neck yesterday and cut out the outline of the body.
before... and after
rotary truss-rod adjuster
the upper horn sits nicely at the 12th fret and overall length is 45.5", an 1" less than my Jazz bass - not bad for a 24 fret 34" scale neck!
just resting on the back at this point - checking alignment/scale - also can see the 2 piece Gibson style set-back headstock - no string tree needed
templates to visualize some scalloping options - the headstock face will stay natural w/the body colour at these scalloped areas
An interesting factoid came up when I picked up the neck from Dan (Ransom) - He commented how it had a Buzzard bass look, and it does - even if it wasn't my intent (which it wasn't). But here's where serendipity plays in; Dan was the luthier who worked on the original Buzzard bass that John Entwistle commissioned! He built the prototype neck and body from drawings that JE provided. After it was built Dan was at the NAMM show and JE was making a guest/artist appearance there. Dan loves the WHO and like me grew up listening to them starting w/"I can see for miles". He said that when JE walked up to him, the first words out of his mouth were "neck's too round". !!! After that was cleared up/biz done, Dan hung out w/JE for then next few hours there. Crazy small world we all live in.
before... and after
rotary truss-rod adjuster
the upper horn sits nicely at the 12th fret and overall length is 45.5", an 1" less than my Jazz bass - not bad for a 24 fret 34" scale neck!
just resting on the back at this point - checking alignment/scale - also can see the 2 piece Gibson style set-back headstock - no string tree needed
templates to visualize some scalloping options - the headstock face will stay natural w/the body colour at these scalloped areas
An interesting factoid came up when I picked up the neck from Dan (Ransom) - He commented how it had a Buzzard bass look, and it does - even if it wasn't my intent (which it wasn't). But here's where serendipity plays in; Dan was the luthier who worked on the original Buzzard bass that John Entwistle commissioned! He built the prototype neck and body from drawings that JE provided. After it was built Dan was at the NAMM show and JE was making a guest/artist appearance there. Dan loves the WHO and like me grew up listening to them starting w/"I can see for miles". He said that when JE walked up to him, the first words out of his mouth were "neck's too round". !!! After that was cleared up/biz done, Dan hung out w/JE for then next few hours there. Crazy small world we all live in.
,) using non-pole Lace J's, or soap-bars. So far I'm really leaning toward white J's and don't fancy the angle concept so that leaves the Lace-style, which I like (yes, very 90's...). I also will look into white soap-bars if they exist. (other than in the cleaning-supply isle! 
) I could also paint some black soapbars, but don't think I want to deal w/pu's paint that will scratch off eventually from playing. 
As it turns out the seated position lower arch is pretty much aligned w/the J and the pu spacing and general location is similar as well - so far so good.
And the Jazz bass - I made that single ply matte black pg awhile back as a cross between a '51P and a Jazzmaster/Jag. Since then I've more recently done some chambering underneath it to lighten it up a bit. It's an awesome instrument, and if the Supersonic can achieve some of what it has - I'll be well pleased!
, so.., we'll see what develops.
