Dual Cut five string fretless

[scottyd]

I may keep this one around for a prototype. Basically its being built from scraps that I've got laying around.

34" Scale
D.C. Body shape
Five laminate neck paduak/wenge/leopardwood/wenge/paduak
Santos mahogany headstock
Santos mahogany tranny block (can't get enough of that tranny block!)
Spalted Maple top
wenge veneers
Streaked poplar body core
spalted walnut bottom
cocobolo fingerboard
Some kind of preamp maybe
Redeemer single coil pups or perhaps a piezo
Wilkinson hardware.
ect ect
I'm just going to go with the flow on this one!

Shape

Necks being glued up now I'll post pics after its planed to size.

 

[genocide roach]

spalted walnut? i cant wait to see that
~gR~

 

[cricketfever32]

word son, that should be one hot prototype.

 

[scottyd]

Heres the top a little more spalt.....

 

[Seussbass]

That's some nice wood! Anything made with that is going to look amazing.

 

[allenhumble]

Any pics of that walnut?

 

[eleonn]

I guess the spalt must be on the sap right?

 

[scottyd]

Heres the walnut/santos back and the poplar core.

Heres the neck. Crazy contrast on the woods huh? Like halloween!

 

[bradjonesbass]

Very nice.

 

[cricketfever32]

where'd you get the poplar scott? hot woods, sexy bass, as usual

 

[scottyd]

where'd you get the poplar scott? hot woods, sexy bass, as usual

Home Depot, you just gotta dig through their stock..

 

[cricketfever32]

thats what i did for my 6 string fretless im working on, except...mines fugly compared to yours...

 

[taviswardlaw]

heh, you know you're on talkbass when 'dual cut' has to be specified. Looks great. Woods are incredible.

 

[joke_retro]

Heres the top a little more spalt.....

Wow Wow

 

[DanielM]

very nice design Scotty! and that wood combo is really wild. especially for a proto!

 

[scottyd]

I'm thinking really hard about only using a piezo in this bass. Here's the body with the top,

Heres a shot of the fingerboard, I couldn't pass up using this board for a fretless.

 

[Greenman]

How sweet it is!

 

[bassmanhamilton]

That is going to be a great looking bass. I like the top and the fingerboard is killer!

 

[Son of Magni]

That top is amazing!

 

[cricketfever32]

oh my god
sexy sexy sexy!
simply amazing spalt
keep the pics coming