Redeemer DDC-Five Fan Fret for Scottyd!

[scottyd]

Here's one I'm pretty excited about. I plan on starting this one right after the new year. I'll build this bass to my own specs and play it a while and probably sell it later. It's been a while since I've built one the way I want it so here it goes. Since this is not a customer bass the progress will be slower than normal.

Redeemer DDC body shape
Bolt on neck
36-34 scales Fan fret
24 frets

Cocobolo top
Spanish Cedar core
Curly oak back
Wenge accents

Seven laminate neck walnut, wenge, curly maple.
Cocobolo fingerboard
fiber optic side markers

2 Redeemer neo humbuckers
Audere Z-mode pre

Matching covers
Wilkinson tuners
Redeemer wooden bridge 19mm
black hardware


The shape

 

[Mikey R]

subscribed!

 

[eleonn]

So you finally saved enough to buy yourself a bass from you?

 

[scottyd]

So you finally saved enough to buy yourself a bass from you?

Yeah I really had to drive a hard bargain with myself. I was able to cut myself a break because I have a good amount of lumber and hardware laying around.

 

[joeyl]

so how are you as a customer? demanding or laid back?

 

[scottyd]

I demand perfection but I also like character so not too perfect, I plan on giving myself a hard time with this build. I better be on my A game.

 

[pilotjones]

Cool, one for yourself. Are you adjusting the body and headstock shapes for the fan? I'm interested in what you found necessary to change.

 

[scottyd]

Cool, one for yourself. Are you adjusting the body and headstock shapes for the fan? I'm interested in what you found necessary to change.

I'm still in the process of putting it all together in Sketchup. So far so good, I'll need to set the neck a little shallower than normal to still have good access to the last frets. This will give me a little more room for the bridge too. The only drawback is I may also need to extend the upper horn slightly to keep good balance. The headstock doesn't seem like it will need any changing. I don't plan on getting too fancy in that area.

 

[eleonn]

What about the angle on the headstock? It will change throught out the long of the nut from string to string with the scale or are you planning to do a compound angle at the scarf joint?

 

[scottyd]

What about the angle on the headstock? It will change throught out the long of the nut from string to string with the scale or are you planning to do a compound angle at the scarf joint?

I plan on putting the perpendicular fret at the 5th which will make the nut or zero fret in this case have less angle this also puts the more angled frets in the upper neck area which is better for my playing style (or lack there of!) Now this being my first fanned build this will be a learning experience, but I'm confident that I can use my the same scarf technique as all of my others. If not I'll post the outcome.

 

[T2W]

so how are you as a customer? demanding or laid back?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH !!!!!!!! always good to log on to TB and read this stuff, awesome. Have fun with the build Scott, peace

 

[tomas_almeida]

Susbcribed! Very interesting.

 

[scottyd]

I've got the top and core glued up, you can see the spanish cedar core at the right edge of the picture. As you can see, I had just enough cocobolo to scrape by with this model.

 

[scottyd]

Neck blank time, I decided to go with 9 laminates, from top to center is walnut, hickory, wenge, walnut, pau ferro.

 

[vbasscustom]

ive always wondered why there dont seem to be a whole lot of cocobolo boards that arent all knoty. any that i have seen have alot of knots in them. it looks cool, i really dig it, but i was just wondering why there are so many knots all the time

 

[joeyl]

hmm, time for a bump!

 

[scottyd]

I hope to get some work done to this one this weekend. I'm waiting on truss rod nuts so I can move on with the neck. But I'll probably get the body glued up none the less.

 

[Ol'Bass'ead]

subscribed. Scotty, you better hope you dont have to extend that top horn!

 

[scottyd]

Managed to free up a little bit of time to get the fingerboard ready. Slots are cut and I bound it with curly maple.

 

[scottyd]

I've been poking away at this one, the neck is rough shaped, fretted and just about ready to be set into the body. I decided to use Paduak for the back of the body and headstock.