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Jaco Tribute Bass Build

#401
First off sorry to everyone for getting off topic cause I to am waiting for Kevin.

Beej said:
Therapist. If you actually worked with persons who carry diagnoses of mental illness, you'd know that they too typically try to avoid the stigma normally associated with perceptions of their issues through humour as I did above...
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So you're saying if two "Therapists" get together it's OK or "typical" to use humor to explain away "their" actions, in this case making a funny face while holding a bass, as long as you wink, nudge or add a smilely face? Or are you saying the way you use humor, to describe "their" actions, is the same way someone suffering from a sever mental illness does? Or are you saying as a "therapist" you have managed to "avoid the stigma normally associated with persons who carry diagnoses of mental illness" by using humor with perceptions to "their issues" and condition?....... Which ever the case I stand behind my original "diagnoses". And may I add it's even "more" bizarre now you've claimed "you" own a piece of paper you've hung on your wall claiming to all you know the difference because you've "worked" with them.
PS: I don't work with 'these' people I know and love 'these' people that's why I question your remarks.
 
#403
^ I agree with the above. Let's keep any unrelated discussion back channel. If anyone else has issue with my comments, please feel free to PM me, I'm always open to criticism and meaningful discussion...

PS: Bassmickeyd, I've PM'd you.
 
#404
I'm not trolling here, this is a genuine question.
How is it possible that Jaco ripped out the frets and applied boat epoxy with absolutely no woodworking experience and created an amazingly playable fretboard? If this is the truth, wouldn't the OP be able to replicate that process? Why would one need to hire a professional luthier/epoxy specialist?
I'm sure someone has posed this question before, so forgive my ignorance.
 
#405
Mr. Pickles said:
I'm not trolling here, this is a genuine question.
How is it possible that Jaco ripped out the frets and applied boat epoxy with absolutely no woodworking experience and created an amazingly playable fretboard? If this is the truth, wouldn't the OP be able to replicate that process? Why would one need to hire a professional luthier/epoxy specialist?
I'm sure someone has posed this question before, so forgive my ignorance.
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Because, when Jaco done it himself, it was certainly not amazingly playable, or he wouldn't have later got *the exact same luthier as Bassgod76* to work on them instead of himself. ;)
 
#406
Mr. Pickles said:
I'm not trolling here, this is a genuine question.
How is it possible that Jaco ripped out the frets and applied boat epoxy with absolutely no woodworking experience and created an amazingly playable fretboard? If this is the truth, wouldn't the OP be able to replicate that process? Why would one need to hire a professional luthier/epoxy specialist?
I'm sure someone has posed this question before, so forgive my ignorance.
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Did he do it himself? I thought he had someone do it for him.
 
#409
Mr. Pickles said:
I'm not trolling here, this is a genuine question.
How is it possible that Jaco ripped out the frets and applied boat epoxy with absolutely no woodworking experience and created an amazingly playable fretboard? If this is the truth, wouldn't the OP be able to replicate that process? Why would one need to hire a professional luthier/epoxy specialist?
I'm sure someone has posed this question before, so forgive my ignorance.
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Kevin told me that Jaco ripped out the frets and did the epoxy himself. It was a mess, and the epoxy he used would come of in sheets as it would wear. Jaco brought the BOD to Kevin, and it was there that Kevin did his own epoxy neck work for Jaco's famous bass. Kevin was also the guy who repaired the BOD when Jaco smashed it to pieces.

Kevin Kaufman and Jaco after the BOD was pieced back together.
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#410
bassgod76 said:
Kevin told me that Jaco ripped out the frets and did the epoxy himself. It was a mess, and the epoxy he used would come of in sheets as it would wear. Jaco brought the BOD to Kevin, and it was there that Kevin did his own epoxy neck work for Jaco's famous bass. Kevin was also the guy who repaired the BOD when Jaco smashed it to pieces.

Kevin Kaufman and Jaco after the BOD was pieced back together.
KaufmanJaco.jpg
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I have heard that story a few times, but I have also heard Jaco say he bought it w/o frets and just put the epoxy on it to use rotos.
Jaco was aware the vision of him ripping out frets with a butter knife made for a better press. No body really knows but Jaco.
 
#411
THand said:
I have heard that story a few times, but I have also heard Jaco say he bought it w/o frets and just put the epoxy on it to use rotos.
Jaco was aware the vision of him ripping out frets with a butter knife made for a better press. No body really knows but Jaco.
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How or when the frets came out will always be Jaco "folklore", but I do know that Kevin was the guy who picked up the pieces...Literally
 
#420
THand said:
I have heard that story a few times, but I have also heard Jaco say he bought it w/o frets and just put the epoxy on it to use rotos.
Jaco was aware the vision of him ripping out frets with a butter knife made for a better press. No body really knows but Jaco.
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The stories in the book but, if I remember it correctly, Jaco bought a black 61 J-bass that already had the frets out. He played it for a while but didn't like it and then traded it in on a different J-bass. It was before the BOD and when he got into Pettit's Poxy.
 

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