My first bass project

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I was looking at supplies for building a neck, and its honestly cheaper to just buy one, with all the tools I would need to build one. Not to mention, a well playing neck is probably a longshot, atleast on my first attempt. I was looking online for necks, and the cheapest I've seen is warmoth. Anyone buy a neck from them? What do you think about it? Anywhere else I could look.

I also do have a squier jazz bass that I could steal the neck off of, atleast temporarily. I might actually do that, because this is getting pricey really quick.

Greekorican; Like you, I have been dreaming about building my own bass, but I probably am starting with much more general wood working experience than you - still ...

One thing I did a while back was buy a "used" Carvin neck assembly off Ebay. This neck was a body-thru design for a 5 string and has a very traditional headstock shape completely undrilled (not like the p-bass shape obviously). The former owner had gotten as far as gluing some exotic wood body wings on it and then quit. The neck assembly alone cost $269 from the Carvin catalog and then there was the cost of the wood body wings. I ended up getting the whole thing for $122 in auction and have since cut off the body wings (due to the size and ugly shaping) making it once again a neck assembly only. It is currently waiting for me to build it. (I will harvest the wood from the body for other things!)

Perhaps you can go online and find a similar deal that would be more fitting for your P-bass build. I know I saved a ton of money by going this route! Good luck on your project.

 

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Look online, you can find used necks on ebay. Standard MIM Fender necks seem to pop up on there pretty often. Otherwise, check out Mighty Mite or Allparts, they both sell Fender-ish replacement necks, and I think they're both cheaper than Warmoth.