Here's my new bass...

Andy Daventry · May 22, 2001

Took one and a half years to build. Finished today.

35 1/2 inch scale, Sadowsky pickups, ebony fb, alder body, 3 piece neck (maple/ purple heart)...

A beauty.

<img src="http://andydaventry.com/bass/kenan1.jpg">
<img src="http://andydaventry.com/bass/kenan2.jpg">
<img src="http://andydaventry.com/bass/kenan3.jpg">

Comakazi · May 22, 2001

Looks really nice, man! Updated looks with nice elements of some classic styling, I'd buy one.
Nice work.

odie · May 22, 2001

WoW you should be very proud!!! Awesome look, I would scoop one up.

rickbass · May 22, 2001

That is really nice looking work Andy!

The body style suggests hints of a Warwick Thumb and a Fender to me...and I mean that in the best way possible. I also like the fact you weren't afraid to put a little wood on the head. So many new basses have these midget headstocks.

Turkey will rock a little harder from now on.

funkopotimus · May 22, 2001

killer dude, steve's thumb up!

Turock · May 22, 2001

Looks very nice.

RAM · May 22, 2001

Excellent piece of work! How does it play and sound?

Brad Johnson · May 22, 2001

Nice

trainyourhuman · May 22, 2001

I'm quite impressed. Does it have the Sadowsky preamp as well?

Yvon · May 22, 2001

very beautifull bass.
Will you build a fretted twins?

CS · May 22, 2001

Originally posted by rickbass1
That is really nice looking work Andy!

The body style suggests hints of a Warwick Thumb and a Fender to me...and I mean that in the best way possible. I also like the fact you weren't afraid to put a little wood on the head. So many new basses have these midget headstocks.

Turkey will rock a little harder from now on.
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Before I read this comment I was thinking TRB meets Stingray 5. However it IS original and I have been sitting with my head tilted trying to imagine what it would look like with someone playing it.

I hope it plays as well as it looks and it gives you many years of pleasure. (I also hope that my family stop thinking I have gone mad, by looking at my PC sideways)

Andy Daventry · May 22, 2001

Hey...

I should add some things.

I designed the bass, but it was built by a guy called Kenan Turgut, who is an instrument builder and repairer here in Ankara. He doesn't play, so he misses some of the finer points (which is why I designed it!), and has a tendency to equate "good" with "solidly built", but is an excellent craftsman, and has a good structural knowledge of how guitars and basses are made. My woodworking is no way good enough to build a bass like this myself!

The body shape is basically TRB...we cut the body from a template made from a TRB 5 string. But it kind of changed in the process..it got cross bred with a jazz bass template....the cutaways are a bit deeper (the neck is slightly more than two octaves...24 frets..by accident and mismeasurement. It was meant to be exactly two octaves!).

It doesn't have an onboard preamp. I use a Sadowsky outboard, which warms the thing up nicely. Raw, it is slightly cold. But very clear and punchy.

I had the nut cut slightly high (following an idea a year or so back from Bruce Lindfield) which gives the most incredibly low action without any buzz on the board. Which I don't really want, but, Bruce, your idea was right!

The B is really tight.

The neck is a bit tree trunk like, and I may shave it a bit. To make it rounder, not thinner. It is thicker than a P bass right now. But I will not do anything until I have really got to know what this bass can do.

The body wood is from a Stewmac body blank. Bridge is a Schaller. Tuners are hipshot. I am really impressed with hipshot stuff, and I may replace the bridge with a hipshot Fender style.

The onlything I would not do again is include carbon fibre reinforcing rods in the neck. An unreinforced neck would have given a looser sound. But it's all a learning experience.

Thanks for your comments. TRB meets Fender is about right!

TonyS · May 22, 2001

It's a handsome piece of work. ... Nice Job.

Michael Jewels · May 22, 2001

Andy, I am impressed! With a 35 1/2 inch scale that B string must destroy boulders!

Good luck with it,
Mike J.

NJXT · May 23, 2001

Really, really nice !
Congrats.

Marty Forrer · May 23, 2001

Hi Andy. Good project, man. Well done. I just played a Sadowsky 5 the other day, and those pups are very imressive.

jcadmus · May 23, 2001

Sweet! Where can I order the Andy Daventry Signature Bass?

Having a bass custom built to your specs, based on your design, just has to be the coolest!

Richard Lindsey · May 23, 2001

Hey Andy, congratulations, that's a beauty. It looks "classic" but doesn't exactly mimic anything out there. And a 2 octave ebony FB is certainly my idea of a good time.

Can't really tell from the pic--do you have standard string spacing (0.75 in or 19 mm) at the bridge, or is it slightly closer?

Komakino · May 23, 2001

Damn, that's a beautiful bass man. Nice one ;o)

Nino Valenti · May 23, 2001

Cograts. Looks like a Killer!!!!!!

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