It is great to have such a dynamic and charismatic front person.....Band sounds very authentic.
I'd like to hear her singing a different genre of music
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It is great to have such a dynamic and charismatic front person.....Band sounds very authentic.
I'd like to hear her singing a different genre of music
In addition to my originals band (in the sig), she is in several other projects. This is her own YouTube music channel.
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Funny, I think I get more people checking out my projects from here than I do from people I actually know on Facebook, anyway. It's like they know you personally so they don't take it seriously or something...
Still requires some assembly, but I’m really liking the aged pearl/cream pickguard with the cream binding and dots:
Respect to Warmoth for getting these parts out as quickly as they did.
The body was ordered from the Showcase on 4/13 and arrived last week. The neck was ordered to be built on 4/18 and arrived yesterday.
2-piece Swamp Ash, 60s spacing, 7/8" side jack, single battery box, 4 lbs, 3 oz.
Maple/rosewood, graphite rods, cream dots, 6105 frets
As always, I'm very impressed with the quality. I have most of the rest of the parts already here.
Fender American Series single-coil pups (for now- I expect to upgrade at some point)
Hipshot A5 .708" (18mm), brass
Hipshot Ultralite Clovers
Hipshot B/E and A/D/G retainers
Electrosocket
Not sure how I'll finish it yet. I bought it to take natural Timbermate and clear nitro, but now I'm thinking about an opaque metallic finish with a custom PG. I'd be using Warmoth's original (I bought one of those, too) as a template and redrawing the curve where the control plate notch is. Celinder Js have done something like what I have in mind- see below.
The body was ordered from the Showcase on 4/13 and arrived last week. The neck was ordered to be built on 4/18 and arrived yesterday.
2-piece Swamp Ash, 60s spacing, 7/8" side jack, single battery box, 4 lbs, 3 oz.
Maple/rosewood, graphite rods, cream dots, 6105 frets
As always, I'm very impressed with the quality. I have most of the rest of the parts already here.
Fender American Series single-coil pups (for now- I expect to upgrade at some point)
Hipshot A5 .708" (18mm), brass
Hipshot Ultralite Clovers
Hipshot B/E and A/D/G retainers
Electrosocket
Not sure how I'll finish it yet. I bought it to take natural Timbermate and clear nitro, but now I'm thinking about an opaque metallic finish with a custom PG. I'd be using Warmoth's original (I bought one of those, too) as a template and redrawing the curve where the control plate notch is. Celinder Js have done something like what I have in mind- see below.
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Nice bass dude! I had my eye on that very body in the showcase but was too slow in pulling the trigger as I wasn't sure about its light weight being able to counteract neck dive -which unfortunately is par for the course on these Warmoth 5 string basses. In anycase they are still worth the compromise for the sound to me.
As it looks like you have the wider nut option neck there, a word about the string retainers. On the 2 similar basses I've built I've found you don't need anything on the B or G strings. If you look at how far back from the nut the Musicman Stingray 5 locates its G string's tuner, you can see that there's no need for one here. I use a couple of extra wraps around the sting post just to be safe and it's solid.
The Hipshot 3 string retainer is a little too wide for the string spread on the narrower 5 string neck but on a wider neck like yours and mine they are perfect.
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Thanks! I'm sure it'll balance fine between the graphite rods, the Ultralites and the brass bridge. If there's any dive, I'll use brass knobs and maybe even secure a piece of lead in the control cavity. I've built a Warmoth fiver in the past, had no dive, that one was 4 lbs, 5 oz, aluminum bridge. I wouldn't go below 4 lbs with an AL bridge, tbh.
Good to know, thanks again! Good eye on the nut width as well. It is the wider version. I used both retainers on the last one, but per your info, I'll use the two-string holder for the A/D and put it in the same location along the headstock's length that I would have used for the three. That way, if I do decide I need the other retainer, there won't be any exposed holes.
EDIT: I see that you have the E string retained in this image. Still good, tho!
Sorry, I made an edit to my previous post because it's early here and I mistakenly said you won't need a retainer on the E string when in fact I only meant for the outermost B and G strings. Looking again though, being less than 2cm further back from the G string's post, maybe you wouldn't even need one on the E string?!
My basses both had 4 lbs, 6 oz bodies, Hipshot brass bridges and Ultralite tuners and both dive quite a bit. The necks have the steel truss rods but I know from my 4 string builds that the difference between graphite rods and steel isn't really as much as people think. Depending on the fretboard wood they are only between 50 and 130 grams lighter. One of my necks is all maple and slightly lighter than the rosewood one, but it still dives. Like I said though, the resulting sound still makes it totally worth it and the body shape and increased access to the upper frets is a compromise I'm very happy to make.
If those pickups don't work out I'd readily recommend Nordstrand's NJ5FS noise cancelling -especially with an 18mm string spacing.
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I was thinking that myself- as far as I can see without measuring, the B and E tuners are in the same place Fender uses, and they don't retain either location on their four-bangers. That's a few weeks down the road, in any case.
Wow. Maybe I got a light neck. I didn't get dive at all. If I'm facing you with that bass on a strap, the headstock would be at about 2:30 with no hands.
Well, I'm sold on single-coils for a J build at this point. I used humcancelling pups from different makers in the past, and I liked them just fine. But I built up an MIA Frankenfender with SME (Sullivan Music- custom guy out in Texas) sc pups, and it was like having a pillow pulled off the speaker. If I upgrade, it'll still be with single coils for sure. I've got several fivers with humbuckers of one sort of another.
Here's a photo of and a link to that bass. It's my Holy Grail J.
N(P)BD! (MIA FrankenFender content)
The final piece- mint late 60s/early 70s tuners
New (to me) Old Tuners... found the White Whale
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Very very nice. The bound neck makes it pop.
I love the dinky bodies. My avatar is a dinky p.
I love the dinky bodies. My avatar is a dinky p.
Thanks! I'm a big fan of bound necks myself, and really like the cream with the aged pearl and roasted woods.
