my latest build

here's a wenge/bloodwood/maple neck through: claro walnut burl faceplate, macassar ebony f-board. Nordy 59j neck pickup and humbucker bridge pickup in wood shells: matching wood knobs, core and back are black walnut. I'm pretty happy with it... probably on my top 3 list of favorite builds... and my first foray into flat radius fingerboards (using banjo frets)

I have ONE more set of this amazing burl that I'm starting to think about building up.....still, after all these years, my favorite part: birthing a new instrument. The fact that the client(who became a friend) loves it is icing on the cake!

karl

 

thanks:

here's a closer picture of the front: The bridge was milled by me from 6061 aluminum and use saddles from a hipshot triple lockdown individual bridges... (thanks Jason at Hipshot) ....

I milled it, then did LOTS of hand work to get it very sculpted looking. I also made the knobs.

thanks for the nice comments, all

Karl Hoyt

 

thanks: It's my home brew of tung oil and polyurethane, hand-rubbed coat after coat until the bass gets the patina of a well used hand tool......

 

thanks, all.

As for the flat fingerboard, I am someone who adapts quickly to nearly anything. When I first strung it up, it felt a bit foreign to me. but after I did the setup and got the whole action comfy, it felt very natural.

Another nice feature of a flat fingerboard is that there is no arch of the strings to compensate for with the pickups. flat pickup, flat fingerboard.....

and to Nick: not much to see in my little basement shop at least right now: I will have somewhere between 4-6 basses in various stages of completion by mid march... give me a buzz (I'm in Harwich and in the phone book) and I can have you drop by then.