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'15 'Jogo' custom made P/J. Local friend/luthier/bassist/artist. The body is a slimmed down and re-tooled Squier. Hand cut pickguard. Neck is made of brazilian cherry, brazilian rosewood fretboard. Aguilar pickups. Routed for preamp but i run it passive. Strung with TI jazz rounds. Its the nicest bass i own! Its the 2nd bass he has completed for me. I just dropped off my first P bass to him for a diet and refinish. His work is phenomenal.
Just a standard Squier Vintage Modified P bass 5 . I love it !
- Jun 30, 2010
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- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
'15 'Jogo' custom made P/J. Local friend/luthier/bassist/artist. The body is a slimmed down and re-tooled Squier. Hand cut pickguard. Neck is made of brazilian cherry, brazilian rosewood fretboard. Aguilar pickups. Routed for preamp but i run it passive. Strung with TI jazz rounds. Its the nicest bass i own! Its the 2nd bass he has completed for me. I just dropped off my first P bass to him for a diet and refinish. His work is phenomenal.
Nice work!
I'm also a fan of thinner Fender bodies (1.5" compared to standard 1-3/4"), inset neck screws w/collars and string-thru ferrules. (Hipshot bridge & Aguilar pu's are good choices too) Can you discern a tonal difference w/the Cherry? I have found Wenge (w/ebony fb) to deliver a very unique tone colour - only drawback is that it makes for a heavy neck. (plus I also use the K&M stands!)
Nice work!
Cant say that I can tell a difference in neck woods to be honest. Id need to have similar basses with the same pickups to tell really. This is my first set of Aguilars and I love them. Very quiet noise floor, responsive tone control circuit.
The cherry was leftovers from someones expensive home remodeling. It was being used as some super thick floor trim or something. It was only wide enough to make a tele style headstock though, which i was happy with! He played the neck for about 2 years before retiring the body it was on, then built the white body! It was the luthiers first neck he ever made from scratch! I just know that is got a compound radius and its got a fantastic feel to it.
- Jun 30, 2010
- 49,588
- 221,963
- Disclosures
- musician/artist/owner - Gildaxe
Not meaning to sidetrack with a tone-wood debate but if it isn't dynamically apparent (on its own) then it most likely is more similar to maple. The Wenge/ebony I have even w/o comparison has a very specific tone unlike any maple/ebony necked bass I own. 
godofthunder59
Life is short, buy the bass.
- Feb 19, 2006
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- Endorsing Cataldo Basses, Whirlwind products, Thunderbucker pickups
My chromed out Epi Classic Pro with the Badbird II installed
2013 Classic Series - trans white over ash:
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Pretty sure this was Olympic White 50 years ago...
Nice! This was my first bass as well back in '86. Bought it straight from the Sears catalog! The finish had a crack in it unfortunately so I exchanged it for a black one which was my main player for a number of years. Sold it back in '96 but just bought another one as a lay around the house, beater bass!
Iamthebassman - What a gorgeous Ric! I'd love to have this for my Beatles band in right-handed.
What's the story about this bass - Snowglo? Did you special order it, or was it part of a custom run?
My NEO RockBass, custom-built by Pennsylvania luthier Rich Roland, is made from translucent white acrylic & looks white when off, and lights up blue & green when the internal neon is on.
Very cool. How long do you think the neon will last before having to be refilled?
