Headless build!

[shai-ga]

Working on a new bass,
Here are some details:

4 strings
Swamp ash body
Hard Maple neck
Honduran Rosewood board
Bolt on construction
24 frets, bell brass jumbo
34" Scale
ABM system
Grover strap locks
MEC Gold active jazz pickups
Spector Tonepump pre (until I'll find a 3-band MEC)
Mild Amber-Orange clear gloss polyurethane finish

 

[shai-ga]

Couple of neck views

 

[shai-ga]

Some hardware

 

[shai-ga]

Paint & Locks

 

[shai-ga]

Neck pocket, control cavity and pickups are routed

 

[shai-ga]

Pickups and back view

 

[Sethakamoe]

looks good

 

[shai-ga]

Acoustic check!

I'm getting a clear full range tone, very loud with lots of sustain.

 

[GKon]

Sub'd

Looking forward to more pics

 

[shai-ga]

Thanks!
I'll post more soon, after some fine sanding and shaping, showing the finishing process.

 

[sprocket123]

Looks great so far ! Sub d too .

 

[Michael Pearce]

Wow. Unless it's just an optical illusion, that looks like a really compact body. I like it!

 

[shai-ga]

It is compact

 

[Luthier Atlanta]

Some hardware

Where did you get your hardware?

 

[shai-ga]

I bought the headless system from pitch perfect music:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-ABM-4-S...100?pt=Guitar_Accessories&hash=item53e5f2536c

 

[shai-ga]

 

[shai-ga]

The interesting thing is I didn't touch any of the frets,
Just some side shaping and filing, and there's no buzzing at all, so I'm not going to do any fretwork.
I really like these brass jumbos, they feel and sound sweet, if you're looking for bumpy frets.
Got them in an official Warwick bag , looking clean and shiny at first, but aged nicely to a rusty look in a month.

Yesterday I made a black plexiglass cover for the truss rod area on the neck.
It's going to be a black plastic overkill, for such a small body, so I'm going to leave it as it is, with some high gloss colored finish.

 

[MPU]

Warwick frets are very nice. Nice to see a headless build. I'm totally into headless basses.

 

[6stringpanda]

Awesome!

 

[ICM]

Very cool! I was at first thinking how strange the body looked and that it was going to be huge compared to everything. It makes much more sense seeing it as a compact body.