What would you think of this...

A little goofy lookin for me. May I suggest one with a double MM pickup and you would place the second one in the middle of the pickguard? Defiently would look better and would enhance the sound aswell. Slap a tort or a black pickguard on there too and that be something I would personally dig.

 

You could probably save yourself a fair chuck of change and see if the new Big Block Precision is to your liking first before having a semi-custom made to spec.

 

I looked into building a bass from parts from Warmoth.

Once I'd added up the options I wanted, the total cost would have been around $1300.

For that kind of money, I'd rather spend a few hundred extra and get Nino Valenti to build me a great bass, rather than risk screwing things up myself. Cutting the nut was the part that concerned me the most, along with leveling the frets properly.

A bass with two MM pickups would be pretty cool, though.

 

Ya, a lot of people forget that frets need leveled when you buy necks from parts places. That's another $100 at least. I don't see the value in building parts basses myself. Unless you do what I did and buy cut-rate used parts off Ebay. About 6 years ago I built a P copy for like $200. It turned out great.

 

what does leveling frets involve?

 

i just bought a luthier built warmoth off ebay for 300 bucks and it`s GREEN!!! it`s a vinage green like you would see on a 50`s chevy or something. was`nt shure i would like it at first but i dig it! warmoth stuff is killer, i have a frtless p neck on a jazz body and really like the neck. i also put together a warmoth p body with a japanese fender type neck that turned out pretty good. if you got the skills, go for it! i allways take it to someone who knows what they are doing to set it up. i got skills too(you know like bow hunting, computer hacking) but that settin up thing becomes pretty tricky. thats when years of experience is required to get it done right.