Gizmo

Looking sweet nice design looks like she will blance very well I love the wood combo's cant wait to hear this one sing keep us updated plz Cheers Gizmo

[quote name='RichBowman' post='4667' date='May 22 2007, 09:44 PM']Wow! That looks superb - I don't know how you can achieve so much on a first time build! I'd love to have a go it building a bass, but have far too little time and/or talent! Where are you thinking of getting the wooden knobs from? Rich[/quote] Hi Rich Thanks for the kind words im sure anyone could do it if they tried and had the time/workspace/tools I just took my time and read a lot i also knew when id had enough and needed a break infact at one point i didnt touch it for over 2 months(around the time i started to carve the neck profile)because i was unsure on how to progress but a few weeks and some test pieces later i refond my footing and carried on As with the rest of the bass i'll be building the knobs out of my left over scraps they'll be maple burl topped with purple/cherry/purple accent lines and have zebra wood bodies to match the main body woods Cheers Gizmo

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='4572' date='May 22 2007, 07:17 PM']Brilliant! For a first effort that's superb. Did you do much research before hand or sort issues as they arose? I can't quite tell from the images: did you route under the tuners, or are the central 4 easy enough to turn without having to get your fingers underneath?[/quote] Hey dave thx for your reply Theres a small route under the tunning domes and i have no problem tunning them from above with the edge of my thumb, i was going to take out the whole backend out and designed for it but i did a test setup with just a channel route and found it worked more than well enought for me so i decided to not kill the flow of the backend research research & a bit more research was all i did for the first month or so & melvin hiscox's book was a big help as was the lutier's coner over at talkbass but i found research i think can only get you sofar things change quite a lot when your doing and i had to fix a few things in the mix as it where hopefully though i learn enought that those things wont pop up on my future builds Cheers Gizmo

Posted this over at talkbass (im thonk over there) but thought id post here aswell Well she took a while long that i thought she would but she's finished! (apart from the fact that the EMG BQC system i installed is faulty so i gotta order a new one ) Any hows the spec and some pic's and first build views.... Single cut (my own design but with a tip of the hat to JP) 6 String BEADGC Headless (status gold hardware) EMG 45DC active pups EMG BQC system 24 fret's Neck thur 5 piece Zebra/Purple/Cherry/Purple/Zebra Zerba wood Fingerboard Zebra body wings Maple burl top Purple/cherry/purple accent veneers warwick gold straplock's Hand rubbed Danish oil finish yes she is heavy due to all the Zebrawood(no more so than other 6'er's i've played)but she's not for gigging so im not to bothered Knobs will be replaced with wooded one's in the next week or so As i said in the title this is the first time i've ever built a bass(infact its the first time i've touched any woodworking tools snice i left school 17 years ago!)and one thing i've learnt is that if you dont have the tool for the job wait & go get it because if you dont its gonna cost you a whole heap of trouble & strife There are a few thing's and way's of doing thing's id change if i had my time over again on her & im my own worst critic but im 100% happy with the end result and thats all that matter's right My 2nd build a 4 string headless SC ash/maple is already 1/3 rd under way as well as a replacement ash jazz body for my fretless progress threads to come So it seems building is as addictive as drug and alcohol it also seems to cost the same! but the rewards are 1000% better imho Laters Gizmo I'll have a dig around my backup dvd's and try and find some early in progress pic's if anyone's interested?

Hi Stu Many thanks for your feedback i'll wait for rich's review but i think i'll be adding it to the cart come the end of the week im starting to rutt a little and i think this dvd would be a very good pickmeup from what ive read and heard about it Cheers Gizmo

I remember reading about this years ago and a few thing's have always struck me about her bizarre claim to that line those being Dont you think that someone (other than herself) would have remembered a [b]White female pick playing bassist[/b] playing on a black singers tune with a whole band of black musician's? As lonestar says grab a copy of the shadows book well worth the money marcus miller nails I was made to love her perfectly even the slap he adds on the outro does'nt sound out of place

[quote name='Volume' post='1783' date='May 18 2007, 08:56 PM']Hi Gizmo, I bought the entire series last week... They're currently in the post, and should arrive early next week... I'll let you know what I think of them once they arrive. Rich[/quote] Hey Rich Thx for the heads up i look forward to your mini review Cheers Gizmo

Hey all Im just wondering if anyone out there has any of norm's [url="http://www.normstockton.com/products/index.html"]DVD's[/url] and what there like? im intrested mainly in the vol 4 pondering bass technique (the other god/worship groove stuff does'nt really interest me being an athisit) I've got norm's sushi cd and its pretty cool and the clips on youtube look like there well recorded/performed im just wondering what the content is like and if its clear & well demonstrated and not like a lot of the reh/hotlick's vid's where the bassist's are just dumpped infront of a cam without any real script or content I look forward to reading your opinions Cheers Gizmo