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Remodeling project, or, See what you made me do?
- Thread starter GlowRay
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The more I look at this, the better it looks! I love the fretboard died dark with the darker block inlays, fantastic look. The headstock reshape looks amazing as well, it just fits in with the entire style perfectly.
lowsound
lowsound
Very impressive for your first project. Awesome! When I first saw the cut outs I didn't think it was going to work but, you have an eye for creativity. I like how you pulled the whole thing together with head stock.
Tedward
Tedward
Very cool. If I were to see the second one alone, I'd never have guessed it was a spawn of a Jazz bass.
Sorry about the delay in response, lowsound - it plays well, pretty close to how it played before. I set it up a little lower than it was before. The bass was playing during the project had a passive P pickup, rosewood fingerboard, and smaller frets. When I first set this one up and played it through a small amp at bedroom volume, I heard waaay more clicks and clacks. I assume that the harder fingerboard and larger frets are responsible for that. At band rehearsal volume, clack noise is unnoticeable, or maybe my technique has improved
.It sounds good to me, but I'm biased! I think it sustains a little better, hopefully due to the neck joint bondo work. But that could very well be placebo effect - I want it to sustain better! The P pickup is great and bassy, but still pretty defined. The J bridge pickup's output is comparatively weak and kinda thin - I probably have it too low. But I've played it at church and a band gig, and no problems.
It's so much lighter now that I've sawed and sanded so much wood off. When I started the project, I had switched to my Ibanez Roadstar II, a dinky P-style, which was way lighter. This bass is now noticeably lighter than the Ibanez, very easy on the back for the 3 hour rehearsals we do on Thursdays.
