Any thoughts on using Makore for a bass body? Seems like a good balance between mahogany and ash. Several good comments regarding its use in MTD's, especially with wenge.
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I'm paying a visit to the shop in a couple of weeks, and all of a sudden it looks quite a bit like I'll be getting another bass started. 
Let's just say the wife has given me a non-marriage-destroying reason to make a revenge purchase.
I was planning to wait until a milestone birthday in a couple of years and go hog-wild on a Custom or Signature, but at this early date I will have to rein things in slightly. Also, it's gonna be a fretless and for as much as I'll play it, I've gotta stick with a CS or CS+.
So, anybody wanna weigh in on specs? My fretted CS is a mahogany body/wenge board with JB pickups, so I don't want to repeat any of that, even though I've heard JB is the pickup placement for a fretless. My preliminary thought is an ash body with the silliest top available, unlined diamondwood (if there's any left) for the fingerboard, and a single MM pickup - but which brand? Aguilar, Nordy, Bartolini, etc. And preamp.. not sure there, either. Any suggestions from you fretless experts would be great. I want a really warm, singing tone that won't get lost in a band mix.
Let's just say the wife has given me a non-marriage-destroying reason to make a revenge purchase.I was planning to wait until a milestone birthday in a couple of years and go hog-wild on a Custom or Signature, but at this early date I will have to rein things in slightly. Also, it's gonna be a fretless and for as much as I'll play it, I've gotta stick with a CS or CS+.
So, anybody wanna weigh in on specs? My fretted CS is a mahogany body/wenge board with JB pickups, so I don't want to repeat any of that, even though I've heard JB is the pickup placement for a fretless. My preliminary thought is an ash body with the silliest top available, unlined diamondwood (if there's any left) for the fingerboard, and a single MM pickup - but which brand? Aguilar, Nordy, Bartolini, etc. And preamp.. not sure there, either. Any suggestions from you fretless experts would be great. I want a really warm, singing tone that won't get lost in a band mix.
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I'll echo the J/MM idea. As much as I like my Aggie MM pickups I'd go with the Bart on this one because of the ability to coil split. Every once in awhile you will probably want that mid-y single coil burp. Also, place the J pickup closer to the MM than standard placement.
Here's a youtube vid of someone with a Warmoth bass that they built with double MM pickups. They have coil splitters on both pickups and it really gets lots of great tones. The pickup that he says he used (no ears), looks different than the pics I've seen on that model (ears).
After bouncing some ideas around with Gard, and some deep thinking (those thing can't happen at the same time 
), I'm most probably going to go bare-bones on this fretless - Century Standard, transparent color over a nicely-figured ash body, PJ pickups and maybe even (gasp) chrome hardware! I'm gonna save the big upgrades for another fretted bass in a couple of years.
), I'm most probably going to go bare-bones on this fretless - Century Standard, transparent color over a nicely-figured ash body, PJ pickups and maybe even (gasp) chrome hardware! I'm gonna save the big upgrades for another fretted bass in a couple of years.
I do love Nordstrands.. they're in my Roscoe and my Fender. But I've decided to go with all-stock options on this bass, to keep the cost as low as possible (and also to demonstrate how amazing the barest-bones Roscoe can be.) I wasn't a fan of the stock Bart humbuckers in my fretted CS, but I think with an ash-bodied fretless, the mellower, darker tone will work better.
Ash body, diamondwood board, Bart MM and NTMB preamp will be a killer combination for fretless. Should be awesome!
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Just wanted to shout out to the good folks at Roscoe and hope that the recent weather hasn't affected the shop or it's employees. Can't imagine what all that rain has done and sure as heck don't want to think that all that gorgeous wood is floating down a stream somewhere!
I hope you all are well!
Fishheadjoe
I hope you all are well!
Fishheadjoe
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Drying out nicely here. Most of the really bad stuff was in South Carolina, about 3-4 hours south of us (around Columbia was really rough from what I've heard).
We had a couple of weeks of overcast, drizzly stuff, but not so much of the HOLY CRAP IT'S STILL RAINING stuff.
Good to hear! I was thinking about you guys while watching the news... glad all are ok. I feel for the folks who have lost everything due to weather and looting.
Fishheadjoe
Yeah, we're fine, but some of our friends/owners have been through some pretty rough stuff the past week or so. Seems everyone we know down there is OK, but mightily inconvenienced. Lots of power outages, water issues (I know a couple guys that are under a "boil before use" orders), roads & bridges washed out kind of stuff.
Been there, done that (grew up in Louisiana, lived in Florida for ~20 years - hurricane alley, both spots....), and it is not a fun time.
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...damn, who took that sexy photo, dude must have mad skillz with the DSLR, right?
