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That's effing gorgeous. Where did you score the wood, it's amazing to find a piece that big with that kind of figure.
Ebay. Price wasn't so bad either. It was around $140 including shipping. I'm totally willing to pay that for a piece like this.
Speaking of evil bay, I've purchased some nice pieces at reasonable and/or below market price. You just have to look regularly, and not overbid on something you really want
Yeah, I got a really nice slab of mahogany big enough for a one piece off eBay too, just blundered onto it. Somebody else bought it for a project bass they never made and resold it pretty cheap.
So if we said (for the sake of argument) $75 an hour for your time, materials, tooling, wear and tear, electricity, materials, etc., this would run about $5000 to build for someone? Just tossing this out there as it helps to understand how some of the boutique basses are priced.
More Initial impressions.
Played out with this bass Wednesday nite. I am the "house" bass player for jam nite at a local blues club. Wednesday nite was packed, and there were 5 other bassist in the house. Every single one of them approached me during the night to compliment me on the tone of the instrument and what kind of preamp was in it. All were shocked to discover it was passive. And that is the thing about this bass. It's got a HUGH amount of low end. It took me a couple tunes to figure out where it fit in the mix, but once I found it, it was full steam ahead. I ended up with the neck pup at about 85%, bridge pup@100%, and the tone was rolled back to about 75%. The amp was set flat. If I were to raise the volume of the neck pup, it just got too boomy.
This is the first set of Lollar Bass pups I've had. I have a few Lollar P90's and humbuckers for my guitars, and they all really nice. Jason has once again delivered with the bass pups.
One thing that is a bit odd about this bass is that when I play a note, any note, I feel absolutely no vibration in the body. With the vast majority of my basses, the body tends to vibrate a bit. I can feel it when I play it. This one, zero, zip, zilch, nada. Don't quite know what to make of that
Another thing I had to get used to was not so much the thickness of the neck, but the sustain of the note once I got to playing the upper registers where the neck got thicker. It was almost like having an ebow for those notes if I were to hold them. The upper register note really ripped though as well. I had to really lighten my attack on those note. It is kind of like a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Last but not least, during tear down, the BL approached me and asked that I start building him one, so I'm stoked about that.
Played out with this bass Wednesday nite. I am the "house" bass player for jam nite at a local blues club. Wednesday nite was packed, and there were 5 other bassist in the house. Every single one of them approached me during the night to compliment me on the tone of the instrument and what kind of preamp was in it. All were shocked to discover it was passive. And that is the thing about this bass. It's got a HUGH amount of low end. It took me a couple tunes to figure out where it fit in the mix, but once I found it, it was full steam ahead. I ended up with the neck pup at about 85%, bridge pup@100%, and the tone was rolled back to about 75%. The amp was set flat. If I were to raise the volume of the neck pup, it just got too boomy.
This is the first set of Lollar Bass pups I've had. I have a few Lollar P90's and humbuckers for my guitars, and they all really nice. Jason has once again delivered with the bass pups.
One thing that is a bit odd about this bass is that when I play a note, any note, I feel absolutely no vibration in the body. With the vast majority of my basses, the body tends to vibrate a bit. I can feel it when I play it. This one, zero, zip, zilch, nada. Don't quite know what to make of that
Another thing I had to get used to was not so much the thickness of the neck, but the sustain of the note once I got to playing the upper registers where the neck got thicker. It was almost like having an ebow for those notes if I were to hold them. The upper register note really ripped though as well. I had to really lighten my attack on those note. It is kind of like a blessing and a curse at the same time.
Last but not least, during tear down, the BL approached me and asked that I start building him one, so I'm stoked about that.
Lets run the numbers I have on this build
Material Costs : $518.28
Labor: $3618.7 (48.25 Hours @$75/hr)
Total: $4136
As the piece of wood is really nice, I sure there could be a markup for that, so yeah $5K for custom built, not out of the question.
This is why I roll my own.
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