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And here's the inevitable video demo
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No worries!
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You beat me to it 😉
Here it is:- 3
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I sincerely hope that when you pick up this bass, you can detach yourself from the Fender (type) basses you own or have owned in the past. 😉
This is an entirely different animal. Both ergonomically and sound wise.
Can't wait to see and hear you play it!
Cheers to a new chapter!🍻- 1
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3 hours ago, Thump said:
Absolutely 200% yes please
Here we go!
Be forwarned: it's a loooooong thread 😉
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Also made a few pics of the bass without the pickguard
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Laser cut the pickguard. Customer wasn't sure about the pickguard. I gave him the choice between none at all, White or Vintage White.
In the end we chose for Vintage White
When the bass was wet sanded to grit 2500 and polished with Meguiars I mounted the hardware and pickups
It's hard to capture the color of this bass. Looks different in each light
Final step was soldering the electronics
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Cut the top nut for a piece of bone
Filled the pores with Rustins porefiller
And then took to staining the bass
First a coat of yellow to give to that golden glow under a certain lighting and angle.
I use Clou waterbased stain.
Then did the edges with a light mahogany stain and feathered it out with a dry brush.
Stained the neck and headstock
And the last phase was to stain the sides of the body a very dark mahogany color mixed with dark walnut
Then sprayed with sanding sealer
And then started to build up layers of clear. With lots of wet sanding in between
When the surface was completely smooth I applied the decals to the headstock
Customer found out it is the 100th bass guitar he has ever owned. So he asked me to add the number 100 somewhere
And I live in Velp 😉
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Routed the pickup cavities.
As you can see the customer had decided he wanted two pickups instead of just one.
Glued the first wing on
And then the other
Drilled the bridge stud holes
Roughly cut put the body shape, prior to routing it along the template
Routed the body outline
Didn't risk to route too close to the neck join area.
So I had to clean that up by hand.
Starting to look like it
Routed the controls cavity
Drilled some holes.
Ready for the finishing process
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Shaped the neck profile
Prepared the ebony faceplate for glue up
Cut out the moustache (or open book) shape with a jewelers saw, before I glued the faceplate onto the headstock
Glued the faceplate to the headstock
Drilled the tuner holes
Didn't drill all the way through to prevent tear out. And to keep the diameter of the holes on the other side slightly narrower than the front. I've learned that the Hipshot Ultralites barely cover the entire width of the holes.
Shaped the volute
Shaped the headstock outline
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Cut out the truss rod access slot
And made the truss rod cover from a matching piece of rosewood
Planed the centerpiece to the desired neck/body angle
After the angle was done I roughly sawed the neck shape, in preparation to glue the fretboard on.
Shot in a staple and cut it off just a little bit proud of the surface. This helps to prevent the fretboard from sliding off center when glueing onto the neck.
The glued the fretboard onto the neck. Using inner bicycle tubes for a clamp.
Drilled the holes for the side markers
Glued the side markers in
Filled the gaps underneath the fret tangs with a past of Titebond and rosewood sawdust.
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As always the build starts with same blanks.
I had my limber supplier make me a nice neck blank. He made it to the exact specs that I asked for (nine ply khaya mahogany with walnut strips in between.
Plus two khaya body wings.
Ordered parts and hardware.
Initially the customer and I agreed upon a single pickup bass, so I ordered just one Thunderbird humbucker.
Routed the slot for the spokewheel trussrod
And chiseled out the spoke wheel part.
Next I prepared the fretboard for the inlays
Glued the inlays in
After I had sanded the inlays flush to the radius of the fretboard, I prepared the fret slots for the frets.
Cut the fretwire a little oversized to the width of the slots. And taped off the fretboard for protection.
Hammered the frets in
Cut off the excess ends. And filed them.
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Completed the build of the Brooks EB-TB-IV today.
- Neck through with mahogany body wings
- Nine ply mahogany/walnut neck
- Ebony faceplate on headstock
- Tobacco burst gloss transparent acrylic finish
- Rosewood fretboard
- Jumbo frets
- 34" scale
- Handcut bone nut
- Three ply white-black-white pickguard
- Wide travel Thunderbird bridge plus tailstop
- Spokewheel trussrod
- Thunderbird style pickups nickel.
- Hipshot Ultralite tuners
- Output Pure Tone
- d'Addario EXL170BT Balanced Tension strings
- Strapnuts: Dunlop Straplok Nickel Dual Design
- Weight: 3.5 kg
I'll post pics of the build process in posts below- 14
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Most of the twelve string bass guitars thats I've built have stacked knobs.
Here are a few of them
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8 hours ago, Dazed said:
Intriguing.
Can you tell me what’s going on with this one?
It is my tribute to the legendary Quad Bass that Jol Dantzig of Hamer built for Tom Petersson back in 1978.
Instead of the built-in 4 channel mixing console with one fader for each coil, I gave it a built-in compressor and a built in Sans-Amp type overdrive. Plus I made it 34" scale.
You can view more pics and the entire build process here:
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Two more bursts done by me:
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2 hours ago, ezbass said:
I like that; shortscale?
Nope. It's 34"scale
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My latest build has a nice burst:
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it is coming along nicely 😉
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Headstock of the Brooks EXB-MS-10, a ten-string multi-scale bass.
Bass tuners are Gotoh GB350 (Res-o-lite). Octave tuners are Gotoh CXB-01 (carbon base plate).
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18 hours ago, Richard R said:
That is quite astonishing. How long did the build take you, including the thinking and planning which must have been considerable?
From the initial idea and sketches to the completed build, I'd say about a year.
The actual build took about four months (in my spare time)
Then I had to wait about two months till the built in effects were ready.- 1
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Enter Bas Becu of BQ Music
I had asked him to build a SansAmp type over drive for this bass.
Almost ready except for the led lights
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First applied the yellow all over.
The did the red on the outlines while the yellow was still wet.
And feathered them to the inside with a dry brush.
After the first few layers of lear it already looked gorgeousand a few layers later...
The effects panel go the same treatment.
And when it had enough layers of lear to be perfectly flat, I applied the lettering for the effects with decals
When the lacquer process was done, and after the polishing I could start mounting the pickups.
Then put the tuners and bridge on. And strung her up for the first time.
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I made some cover for the effects panel and control panel of left over pieces of Khaya.
But also made them out of plastic. Because I wasn't 100% sure about the wooden ones...
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Seafoam Green Basses
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Here's the Thinline Telebird that I built a whle ago
Seafoam Green top. Semi-opaque Blonde on back and sides.