i may build a bass. which?

Okay...

I was at one time interested in a doubleneck. The weight changed my mind. I also thought the novelty would wear off... although I do LOVE the look of JT's. I also think it would be a bit aggressive to build a doubleneck on the first try - you would be out a bunch of money if you make a mistake. I would leave that complex of a design to someone with a bit more experience. Just my opinion...

Fretted or fretless is your call. What do you play now?

Jeff

 

fretless

 

go for the doubleneck!!!!

be daring, be creative, don't do what everyone else is doing - zag instead of zig!!!!

Be your own person!!!!!!!!!



sorry had to get that out of my system.

 

another one for the double neck! you should combine both! or better yet try 6ers and meld the fretted and fretless together!

 

Maybe you shouldn't have bothered with the poll and just asked the question!!

 

I think you should build a double neck, semi-hollow, electric upright bass. One standard upright neck and one fretted bass guitar style neck. That would be crazy....

 

your 14, looking to build a double neck bass, and you have a sponsor? You lucky bastard.

 

You've got a fretted 4, so build a fretless 6. I would go for a single neck if this is your first venture into luthiery.

 

have you considered tha half fretless option? some custom bass builders have this option: you can have a bass fretless until the fret you want and the fretted. it could be useful!

 

Hey, that's exactly what I've got.

I have a 7 string with 5 frets, but I am adding 2 more to make it 7 frets, with the rest fretless. Unfortunately, my luthier who was in the middle of making this mod for me is sick at the moment.

Mike Pulcinella does it as well at www.mpguitars.com

 

dude. for some reason that sounds familer

 

This makes me ask myself an interesting question. Is it possible to have a bass with the fret's 1-12 fretted and say 13-24 fretless or vise-versa on a single 24 fret neck? Whould it have a problem with clarity or what? There must be something wrong since no one has tried it before (or have they ?).

 

Look at Bass Guitar's post, 4 posts above yours!

 

Here's an idea... Since you are working with a hugely talented woodworker, save the neck money and build them yourself. Take that money and put it towards the hardware. You could easily get past a doubleneck for $600... If you decide on fretless, you don't even have to deal with the whole fretting thing... Once you do one neck, you'll find that they're fairly straight-forward... nothing to be scared of certainly.

All this is my opinion of course, but after I built my first neck, I never looked back!

-robert

 

If you've never played fretless before, i'd go with the fretless, because ever since i got my fretless jazz, i've been wanting to rip the frets out of my p-bass. I figure all of my basses in the future will be fretless. I wouldn't get a double-neck. For me, i wouldn't need that convienience. I'd just get the fretless, but if there was a choice between getting both or the double-neck, i'd go for the two seperate ones because:
A. Possibilty of back problems (well, i don't think i'm qualified to judge, since i've never had a double-neck)
B. Portability reasons. Would you want to carry that sucker around?
C. Different height of the basses. I like my basses high. I can play them better high. I play much worse when i have one around my waist or lower.
D. It is only a $100 more for having two seperate. Which you may later save from not seeing a chiropractor.