alittlebitrobot

I did one https://soundcloud.com/alittlebitrobot/noodle-01 not very bassy, though...

[b]very[/b] jealous of all you SR Premium people, but I love my sr506M Here it is on the day I got it about two years ago [sharedmedia=core:attachments:145962] I'd love an ATK too. Yours looks amazing DeezerButler.

intriguing..

Well, I think if I said "no", then I'd be committing to posting regularly until the day I die. So, yeah, I probably will go quiet at some point, but I'm such a lurker anyway it'll go unnoticed.

[quote name='RichardH' timestamp='1452433263' post='2949857'] Looks like your [url="http://www.zootbass.com/"]hopes have been answered[/url].... [/quote] haha! Amazing!

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1452369393' post='2949380'] I just watched every video, read every article, scoured every forum in existence... [/quote] oh, great, I've done that too

brilliant! Thanks for the explanation. The first time you tried fretting, did you balls it up monumentally or is it easier than it seems?

I don't like any of these songs, but I'm not happy about my musical taste lining up (if only briefly) with someone being such an arsehole about it. This really is lose-lose.

To answer the original question, I think the youngest bass players that have inspired me are Leonard Hubbard, Tom Jenkinson and Stephen "Thundercat" Bruner. But, just on the generational point.. I listen to some music from the 30s (early Jazz stuff) along with music written much longer ago ("classical music" and "traditional Irish music" will do as umbrella terms for now). So, taking the [i][b]Louis Armstrong and His Hot Five[/b] [/i]record from 1925, that's exactly 60 years before I was born. That's the equivalent of somebody born in 2000, listening to music from 1940, which still effectively pre-dates the electric bass. So, I think every great player just [i]joins[/i] a pantheon of great bassists, rather than replacing the older ones.

[quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1451940995' post='2944913'] To be honest, my process is pretty much 'make it up as I go along'. [/quote] well, it's VERY effective! I can't see any screws, though. Do these just sit on top with friction after you've set the pickup height?

Wow, this is really coming together. Mind if I ask about your process for pickup covers?

I remember mentioning [i]on another site[/i] that Jaco just does absolutely nothing for me. I didn't even start a thread like "I find Jaco boring and over-rated. Thoughts?", I just mentioned off-hand that I'm not a fan. .....never again.

[quote name='BassBus' timestamp='1451839395' post='2943871'] ...just a pity Ibanez necks are a couple of mm too thin for me. It is tempting though. [/quote] Agreed. And I've got one. I thought I'd get used to the thinness but I've had it two years now and it still feels slightly too thin. I like the look of this SC but there's no temptation there for me. .....which is lucky.

That's more like it! I usually like singlecuts, but the BTB looked ugly to me. This is nice.

This is my first time seeing this thread. Lovely design. Very graceful, and those block inlays are starting to grow on me. I'm never usually a fan of position markers on a fretboard.

Brilliant! I'm following this with interest and hoping for more builds like it. I'm convinced people regularly throw away wood that's more than good enough to make a good solid-body guitar. I'd love to do this but I'm renting a tiny house so I can't just keep all the nice stuff I see in skips and at the dump

I second the GIMP suggestion but, above all, just keep it really simple. Not too many colours, and make sure the text is high-contrast and in a legible typeface. You can achieve that with almost any software but at least GIMP is so popular there are plenty of tutorials.

Thanks everybody kind words much appreciated.

[quote name='scojack' timestamp='1451340886' post='2939754'] That has come out pretty nice i'd say, and the magic (and fatal ) words at the end ,,,,my [i]next[/i] project.... [/quote] but I mean it! It's already designed. I'm hoping to be making another post here this time next year.

[quote name='JPJ' timestamp='1451313606' post='2939471'] Great effort and result. Rather than purchasing a drum sander, go for the pillar drill and get a sanding drum like this one [url="http://www.axminster.co.uk/axminster-sleeveless-sanding-drums-ax896201"]http://www.axminster...-drums-ax896201[/url] to mount in the chuck - two birds, one stone :-) [/quote] Magic! [quote name='Andyjr1515' timestamp='1451313749' post='2939473'] I like this a LOT, alittlebitrobot [/quote] Thanks, Andy! I was thinking of you and Blablas when I mentioned the quality of [i]amateurs[/i] in this forum [quote name='ahpook' timestamp='1451314660' post='2939484'] That's great, what a lovely thread. Paint me impressed. [/quote] Thanks very much

[quote name='Bloc Riff Nut' timestamp='1451295825' post='2939295'] That's awesome, thank god you posted. Love those nobs. You've made a unique instrument. Obviously a sound clip would bring the thread to fruition. You should be proud as punch. [/quote] thanks Just visiting my parents for Christmas but I'll try to record something this weekend.

[quote name='blablas' timestamp='1451306432' post='2939404'] I think you should try to make new pickup covers with better aligned mounting holes. Right now what you've got is a letdown for a nicely built and looking instrument. [/quote] Oh, thanks You know what, I can't start on my next build for a while so making new covers would be a nice bit of practice in the meantime.

[quote name='4-string-thing' timestamp='1451294600' post='2939288'] I love it, and have found it very inspiring..... How does it sound? (besides loud) Seeing as oak and pine are not really recognised as "tonewoods" [/quote] Thank you! I remember the first time I plugged it in and tuned up and thought "oh well. It sounds crap but at least it was fun to make", but then after a few weeks it sort of settled down. I've since read about this from proper luthiers who say it just takes a wee while for all this wood and steel to get used to its new life as a musical instrument. To be honest, I'm ambivalent on the "tonewood" thing. I think a lot of people make far too much of it (and the people who pretend that a veneer of flame maple on a body gives some "brightness" drive me mental), but I'm not a total skeptic either. When I made the solid oak/pine body blank, obviously it was over-sized, but the weight was shocking. The oak was so heavy and so dense. No tap-tone there, just a flat thud. Now, I'm sure someone could sensibly argue that tap-tones are irrelevant to a solid-body instrument with magnetic pickups, but I was unhappy with the sheer atonality of the oak. Hence, the chambers. The amount of knots in the pine was an absolute curse because they cut and sand so differently to the surrounding wood, so I'd definitely avoid that in future. It sounds nice now. I know we always struggle to describe tone but I'd say it is definitely "warmer" than the same pickups sounded in the Westone. That might just be the scale losing 4 inches. PS: Just on tap-tones. [url="https://youtu.be/zmFSivO5Tuk?t=2m53s"]This video from PRS...[/url]

[quote name='scrumpymike' timestamp='1451238632' post='2939017'] Yes I was talking about your bass - nice job! [/quote] Thanks a lot. I went and posted [url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/275652-deck-shorty/page__pid__2939154"]a build thread[/url]