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How about a neck-thru P-bass?

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allexcosta

Apr 7, 2004
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#1
How cool is this?
Made by Brazilian luthier Andrellis.
Blocks, binding and pickguard are Brazilian Rosewood.

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#7
That looks like a very well-built instrument! :)

It's definitely starting to get away from the simplicity of a P-Bass, but there are plenty of companies out there making normal P-Basses - seeing a souped-up version like this is a nice change.
 
#13
yea, ditch the big humbucker and it could be pretty sweet. not really a p bass though.

wonder how that nut works.

and i could do without the endangered wood pickguard. plastic or maybe indian rosewood would be fine. save the Brazilian for acoustic guitars where it can do some good. pickguard, i don't know about that....


beautiful though, no doubt about that.
 
#17
The Yamaha BB 1200 (I think, maybe it was the BB 2000?) from the end of the '70s or early '80s was essentially a neck-through P bass. As a buddy of mine who's played and worked on more Fenders than most people have even seen said "That's the nicest 1960 P bass I've every played".

Neat ideas there in the one in this picture, but I agree with using the Brazilian rosewood for cosmetic stuff. Use it in acoustic guitars where it creates a classic sound and use something else for the cosmetic stuff.

Besides, I despise blocks and bindings on Fender-style necks. It's just wrong, wrong, wrong.

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#19
Bongolation said:
That would be pretty coarse for nut adjusting, though, in which people get carried away over +/-.002" variations. :hmm:

That's why I was curious.
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Yes that would be a coarse adjustment but I used it only as an example. The thread pitch could be a lot finer, but it seems like it's fairly coarse in the picture.

Warwick got away with fairly coarse threads on their "Adjust-A-Nut 1" but it had quarter turn adjustment so it was a bit better.

Another slot could be filed perpendicular to the original on this one for quarter turn adjustment.

If it came down to it the entire nut assembly could be shimmed using pieces of feeler guage and then the screws adjusted up or down as required. Though that does seem like an inordinate amount of work.

I like bone much better.
 
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mongo2 said:
The thread pitch could be a lot finer, but it seems like it's fairly coarse in the picture.
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It does.

Another slot could be filed perpendicular to the original on this one for quarter turn adjustment.

If it came down to it the entire nut assembly could be shimmed using pieces of feeler guage and then the screws adjusted up or down as required. Though that does seem like an inordinate amount of work.
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It certainly does, and to no good purpose.

I can see a lot of problems with this concept, starting with the effects of play/fit in the threads.

It just looks like a complicated answer to a question nobody asked. :hmm:
 

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