First build - work in progress

[Scoops]

Gotta love a 2 octave fretless, but when it's a beautiful build, well all the better.

 

[Beej]

Beautiful! Thank you for sharing here.

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Any other builds in mind? You obviously have the skills and mindset to build anything you need now, feed the addiction! Learning fretwork is a good set of skills if you haven't tried it already. I eventually want to try a fretless too.

 

[Frederiek]

Thank you all very much for watching, replying, supporting, inspiration, tips and the good karma in general!

Apart from some neater shielding/isolation within the electronics cavity I'm now officially done - it has a passive -> active switch, series -> parallel push/pull knob and treble and bass boost in active mode (I wanted a passive tone control but that's not compatible with the pots, yet).

Yes! I'm already hatching up the next one. I want to have many new things to learn so it will be a bolt-on, fretted, 5-string (through), jazz-ish bass! Yay!

 

[Frederiek]

Bass of the Week: Frederiek de Vette’s Singlecut Fretless

Well that's a nice cherry on the cake

 

[JIO]

Bass of the Week: Frederiek de Vette’s Singlecut Fretless

Well that's a nice cherry on the cake

Nice to get a bit of broader exposure -

 

[Fat Freddy]

Did anybody else notice the gender mix up on No Treble?.....

 

[Leiria]

Did anybody else notice the gender mix up on No Treble?.....

Yup. Starts off being referred to as a man and then becomes a she later on

 

[Fat Freddy]

Guessing that the name "Frederiek" confused them.....

 

[Englishman]

Great work, very impressive.

 

[Frederiek]

Haha I didn't even notice myself! I hope it's just the name that caused the confusion

 

[Fat Freddy]

Haha I didn't even notice myself! I hope it's just the name that caused the confusion

Well, you don't look very manly to me!....

 

[Duder]

Well, you don't look very manly to me!....

I think we can all agree on this.

 

[Fat Freddy]

Just noticed that No Treble have fixed the error...

 

[Frederiek]

What do you think of my art deco approach on this one?

 

[Fat Freddy]

What do you think of my art deco approach on this one?

Nice strap but not good for that bass in my anything but humble opinion.....

It draws the eye away from that beautiful bass......

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Did you make that strap? That's quite beautiful. Im a brown or black leather guy on straps, but if you like it, it's all good. What did you end up with on weight for the bass?

 

[Frederiek]

Yes I made it I think it actually complements it quite nicely (in use it's on my other side haha), plus it is something less ordinary than you would normally see. The weight is just under 4,5 kg, not exactly light but for a single cut I'm surprised it's not more!

I usually post all the stuff I make here, if you're interested

 

[Gilmourisgod]

Very nice work, Frederiek. Seeing the breadth of your artistic skills, I don't feel so inferior at how quickly you picked up Luthiery! Once you have the basic tools, it's all about mindset anyway, and you have the mindset and eye.

 

[I-Am-The-Slime]

Moooooiiiii!