It's been a long 3 years and a couple moves since I finished my cedar bass project. [ Thru-Neck Bass with Cedar Sides - All sentiment, with plenty tone ]
The neck on this one was not properly built for several reasons (I didn't have proper tools, didn't do as much research as I needed, was in a hurry, etc.). The gist of it is that it played...I mean music could be transferred from the bass through the amp and it sounded really good. Yet it is difficult to play it.
The nut was not actually squared with the neck (it's a bit crooked) and it eventually broke (which, ironcically, made it easier to keep track of where to put my fingers on this fretless). When I asked a repair guy to fix it, he started pointing out more things: the bridge isn't straight, the neck has no angle in it respective to the bridge, and the fretboard looks like it's about to pop off if pressure is applied via the truss rod, etc.
His recommendation was to chop off the neck and just rout a spot for a bolt-on. Except my body cuts are low, so I don't think that would work.
After a long search, I finally found a guy to cut the sides off, build me a new neck from scratch, rout out some chambers in the body (a semi-hollow was my original dream for this, but it never happened) and plop in some f-holes!
The neck on this one was not properly built for several reasons (I didn't have proper tools, didn't do as much research as I needed, was in a hurry, etc.). The gist of it is that it played...I mean music could be transferred from the bass through the amp and it sounded really good. Yet it is difficult to play it.
The nut was not actually squared with the neck (it's a bit crooked) and it eventually broke (which, ironcically, made it easier to keep track of where to put my fingers on this fretless). When I asked a repair guy to fix it, he started pointing out more things: the bridge isn't straight, the neck has no angle in it respective to the bridge, and the fretboard looks like it's about to pop off if pressure is applied via the truss rod, etc.
His recommendation was to chop off the neck and just rout a spot for a bolt-on. Except my body cuts are low, so I don't think that would work.
After a long search, I finally found a guy to cut the sides off, build me a new neck from scratch, rout out some chambers in the body (a semi-hollow was my original dream for this, but it never happened) and plop in some f-holes!
