Is this sick?

[teej]

Personally, I'm an EB2 guy. The EB0 and EB3 are too pointy. Nice sound, though.

 

[shameandspite]

I'm actually looking to make my own body, not sure what pickups to use yet, I'll have to cruise my options and see how much money I can pull away from my food budget.

Skip those wood choices though, I'll still use the mas. ebony top, but my neighbor had a walnut tree fall down last summer and he said if I hauled it off I could have it. Looks to have a fairly straight grain and I've always loved walnut, plus It should be plenty heavy. I've rough turned some of the stuff so I can make christmas presents and its already pretty dry, I'll still have to let it sit awhile.

 

[eutgard]

Hope you enjoy this custom bass. Not mine. I don't like overdone inlay. Customer reported some neck dive.

Body: Alder
Neck: Hard maple
F/board: Ebony
Tuner: Grover
Bridge: Kraken BB-404
Neck p/u: Kraken ASB-1
Bridge p/u: Kraken ASB-1

 

[Mon Rominee]

I like the Mon's solution of sinking the neck further into the body. That solution seems to solve quite a few of my own design dilemna's. The way to do it and keep the original look would be to pattern the fretboard to end at the beginning of the body like the guitar but have the neck extend into the body

exactumally.

 

[Greg Johnsen]

I'd rather see a Stanley Clarke Alembic model than an SG model just because I like the SC better, it's also made by alembic, and it looks awesome with good woods.

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that's a pic of it, it's similar to the SG, but it looks so much better IMO.

Good luck,
Greg

 

[Mon Rominee]

See? Looking at this pic, you clearly have 2" if not a tad more to shift the whole shebang back and it'd still look excellent...heck, that example is a 24 fret. You could succeed easily. Yeah, don't dig that fretboardinlay at all...either of them, actually...sorta gaudy like the "devil tribal" nonsense on those ESP/LTD basses...just ASKING to eventually pop out / glue fail.

 

[Akami]

See? Looking at this pic, you clearly have 2" if not a tad more to shift the whole shebang back and it'd still look excellent...heck, that example is a 24 fret. You could succeed easily.

Even moving it 2 1\2" it's not going to join the body until about the 18th fret, and if the previous statement about only using the first 9 frets is correct, that's still double what you need!

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

If you think that building a bass using a proven design is being a copycat, you are wrong. How many J and P basses are out there? I am planning on building a LP bass, just bacause I like the body style.

There's nothing wrong with copying someone else's design for your own use. But it is copying. Just because there are so many Fender copies does not make it right. They just didn't go after the copiers, unless it was the headstock shape.

Notice you don't see any Rickenbacker copies? John Hall takes legal action on copiers.

I would copy a design as a one off bass, but never as a regular model. It's like copying the notes to someone else's song and saying you wrote it!

 

[DavidRavenMoon]

I'd rather see a Stanley Clarke Alembic model than an SG model just because I like the SC better, it's also made by alembic, and it looks awesome with good woods.

I love those basses. They are VERY neck divey though.. see where the bridge is located?

 

[Mon Rominee]

I don't think this looks terrible at all, with a shift of @ 2.25"

full scale. and yes, on those comments about meeting up at the 18th fret or so (here, more like the 16th)....not too shabby.

 

[shameandspite]

is that line supposed to be the twelfth fret? I kinda like the moved internally look better, and I dont play much above the ninth.

I'm not much for dragons, but the fretboard inlay isn't to bad, If your in a metal band I guess.

I cant tell, is the strap button usually joined on the back of the body or somewhere up the neck? Seems to me that the square of the neck would be a better option.

 

[eutgard]

As you can see... I think the position of strap pin is not so good. If I can, I would postion the pin on the end of upper horn.

 

[Mon Rominee]

is that line supposed to be the twelfth fret?

yes. sorry about that. I like the look better too, then the neck haning off the end look...it also reigns in 1st position a bit, so you're not R E A C H I N G for it.