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So like a Musicman by Sterling by Musicman

Hey Doooooooood /bow you still rocking/proging that custom 7 string? & Thx for the welcome back Yep i keep those basses around.....mostly as a ref for "how not to build stuff" & While i've been away from the Bass seat (i got into shred/fusion & classical guitar....sorry ) i did keep building stuff and even moved over to CAD/CNC just before Covid hit, I've been doing custom body and neck/fretboard work for folks who need a bit of help with their own builds or want replacement bodies for old gear etc etc for a few years now as well as some of my own guitar designs/builds, all spare/part time stuff but TBH im thinking of jumping into it full time later this year as a close death in the family has gotten me thinking about what i should be doing with my remaining days in this mortal shell (it also prompted me to pick up my basses again)...Im sure i'll get around to posting some build logs here soonish (i did post a few pics of current builds in the 3d printer thread) again thx for the welcome back You know if i only took note of YT as a ref for my question it seems you are 83.33333333333333 % correct ! (apart from the Warlock thing ) & YT was my first port of call to check in on what was New in the world of Bass....which i why i came here to ask the good Folk of BC for their input/output....seems Doublethump/sounding like a dotmatirx printer became a big thing ! Big thanks for all the feedback and replies /bow , Some of it is up my street, & other stuff not so much (although i am a lot more open minded that i was 15 years ago so i will give it all a listen) Other guys i've had on the new bassist (to me) playlist these past few days are Antoine Fafard (Sphere & Ad Perpetuum are both KIller prog/bass/fusion albums) & Felipe Andreoli - Resonance Johannes Zetterberg, some late 80/90's style fusion very CC EB Again thx for the replies and keep the rec's coming Cheers Gizmo

Lovely bass. Could definitely be bluer though.

I went for a Phil Jones 17 combo in the end. will report back when it arrives as to what it sounds like.

Let’s stick together. Roxy

So how much are they? I am (unfortunately) into Cobalt Flats for my fretless, and they too are expensive, seem to last so far though.

That is the first properly shonky Yamaha I've ever seen. Maybe the guy that was doing the book-matching for the Cort Space basses got moved to the Yamaha facility.

There are some new Sterling by MusicMan basses, one is called the Session and is a recreation of a 90s/00s Stingray, and actually branded as MusicMan logo on the headstock. Looks like a nice Stingray option for those that like a new bass, but at around £1400 you could get a ‘proper’ one secondhand.

They really really really don't want us putting aftermarket preamps in these, do they?

Two bodies needing an additional rout, ideally I’d be able to do it by post/courier 👍

Plus I made a (short) video this afternoon

I also have a BP-2, such a great pedal. Need to check out that United Vintage DI, defo looks the business. BTW, did I buy your BR15 from Reverb? 😅

The bridge rails use saddles of a Gotoh 12-string guitar bridge. Plus custom made base plates. My sister Pauline is a certified gold-smith. And she made the bridge plates from a brass profile: I sprayed them black with a 2K spray can to match the rest of the black hardware. The crazy graphics were done by cutting the pattern in a low tac film. Then spayed the black over the Lake Placid Blue layer. After it dried I peeled off the low-tac film.

And the profile for the truss rod cover: Test fitting. All looks fine: Then glued the neck in: After the neck was glued in I filled the pores and sprayed the primer. No pics of that sorry. Here's a pic of the Lake Placid Blue layer:

Body outline shape lookiing nice and crisp: Routed the channel for the binding: Glued in the pearloid binding. Using acetone to soften it and make it stick to the wood. I always use an old hair dryer to make it easier to do sharp bends. Routed the pickup cavities: And the neck pocket:

With the neck almost in its final shape I switched to the body. I drilled some holes for weight relief. Plus some more holes for the controls cavity: Sawed the rough outline shape prior to glueing up the matching khaya top: Glued the top on: Routed the controls cavity to its proper shape: And then routed the outline of the body along the MDF template:

After lots of rasping , scraping and sanding it started to look like a proper neck: Made the side position markers: And filled the gaps under the fret tangs with a mix of ebony saw dust and wood glue: Shaped the outline of the headstock. And sanded it to the desired thickness: Drilled ten holes for the tuners:

Drilled holes for the position markers. (I used FindFret2D to calculate the fret angles). The bass has a 35" to 32" scale. And when the position dots were in place prepared the fretboard for the frets. Pressed the frets in: And when that was one I glued the fretted fretboard onto the neck. Left to dry overnight And then started shaping the neck with a shinto rasp:

As always the build started with buying some blanks for the body and neck. I managed to sore some nice khaya mahogany pieces. Routed the neck for a carbon reïnforcement strip in the middle. Then routed two slots for the truss rods. Since it was going to be a multi scale bass I chose two different lenghts: Cut out the headstock angle with the band saw: You have to think in 3D when you cut the angle!

Get out your spandex. Tease your hair. 😉 Here's the Brooks EXB-MS-10 A multi-scale ten-string bass. SPECIFICATIONS: - Mahogany Khaya body - Laminated Mahogany Khaya set neck. Glued in - Black with Lake Placid Blue graphic finish - Pearloid binding - Ebony fretboard - Pearloid position markers - Jumbo nickel silver frets - 35-32" scale - Buffalo horn nut - Custom Brooks bass bridge set. Black Bridge base plates by [URL="http://www.paulinevandenbroek.nl"]www.paulinevandenbroek.nl[/URL] - Two double action trussrods - Carbon reinforcement strip in the neck - Lace Alumitone Bass Bar pickup combination - Pure Tone output. Black - Stacked Volume / tone knobs. Black - Three way pickup selector switch. Black - Gotoh GB 350 lightweight bass tuners. Black - Schaller GrandTune octave tuners. Black - Custom set d'Addario strings I'll post pics of the build process in separate posts below.

Tomorrow morning is the deadline? Argh! Thought we had until the end of Sunday. Oh well, bang goes tonight's TV watching...