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Good morning ! I am following up in relation to this topic: the project has taken a few nice turns and has accelerated a bit. For instance, I did not have to square the heel of the neck as I found a nice Telecaster like neck on Ebay for around 100 euros, second hand, but in very good conditions and it has exactly the measurements of the telecaster like body I had, so, I changed those two elements and proceeding to the assembly with quite some good satisfaction. I can send some preliminary pictures here below. I have changed the pickup as well cause, while excercising with the hand router, I was only able to makde some abstract- sculptures out of the wood I was training on; and since Wi-Fi has gifted me with one more body, so that I can use my neck above, then I will have a second project for Q4 2023 - Q1 2024, where I will ise the warman pickup. I got into some issues when mounting the pickup, meaning that since the body is spruce, is quite soft compared to other types of wood, so when carefully drilling the mini holes for the pickup screws ... I screwed the bottom ... so: wood refill, and I installed also a wood patch in the pickup as the cavity was made very deep. The pickup I used here is a mini humbucker and it is from a small producer in Italy: IUSO pickups. It is nice, and sound quite warm anmd rounded for my taste. I am happy with that. Strings are the adagio of the previous pictures. The bass has been painted rustic red with some black drizzle around to give more road worn kind of look. It has been called Tele Ferrari in honour to my hometown car manufacturer which is performing s**** in F1 🙂, but mainly because the body was painted acrylic red already! The machine head gear is silver colored, so I will change the tone and volume knobs and the bridge to be silver as the head pegs. I installed strings and everything to test the pickup and make sure the volume and tone work properly. Please, point out any mistake I am making or anything you do not like, any critique is welcome as a lesson learnt! Thanks!

Interesting for me to know what drives you to move to short scales if possible? I'm a newbie too, I'm trying to learn a bit more . Thanks and welcome too!!!

welcome from another newbie!

I was very afraid cause the bass police icon of @fleabag was staring at me so seriously so I thought I really have done something greatly wrong ! 🙂

In addition to the above, I bought that neck cause: #1 it was cheaper than others #2 in love with Dusty Hill reversed necks on his tele (not that I compare myself to him, I am not blasphemous 🙂)

Thanks, that was one of the questions I had to myself that google could not answer; so I did a bit of study and I came to the conclusion that, unless you have a right hand modern c shape neck, there should not be any difference between right to left, (except the 2 you mentioned). Please correct me if I am wrong ... Also: Can I reverse a right handed nut to be used in the left handed neck?

yesSir! Did I complicate my life too much you think?

😉 thank you!

How can these guys build such pickups for a fraction of a price of the competition? In my other telecaster, I bought a ceramic minihumbucker from a custom shop in Italy, and was 4 time the price of the one from Warman ... how do they do that?

wow ... these are some guidelines, thanks very much ... I cannot say I understood everything, but I will have time to re read it all a few times! I like your workspace!

yeah ... the routing .. I am a bit worried, but I have some pine wood and other wood I can use as guinea pig. I did not think of using a neck plate, I don't even know what it is for, to be honest, I might have missed a point here. I was thinking to either screw the neck in once I pre drilled the body, or to install the bolts in the neck first and then install it on the body so that the screws will screw into the bolts. I think someone here, sorry of I forgot, did not suggested the bolt solution as it does not provide any advantage.

But would not be ok if I then, after sqaring off the heel, I mount the bridge a backward for the fraction that I took off from the neck? (If you know what I mean)? Just moving everything back a bit (a tiny fraction of an inch I guess) to maintain the length of the scale and therefore the intonation? No? Is this nonsense? 🙂 Also: what do you mean by the heel taper might not allow it Thanks.

But would not be ok if I then, after sqaring off the heel, I mount the bridge a backward for the fraction that I took off from the neck? (If you know what I mean)? Just moving everything back a bit (a tiny fraction of an inch I guess) to maintain the length of the scale and therefore the intonation? No? Is this nonsense? 🙂 Also: what do you mean by the heel taper might not allow it Thanks.

Thanks, I will try to post some recorded sound once I finish the assembly, maybe in 2049 considering my skills? 😉

so .. if I do not have to follow your advice, I should not even follow this one where you told me not to follow your advice! LoL 🙂

Thanks, the pickup is interesting, never had one like that, it is actually a bit smaller then the other mini humbucker I have in the other telecaster ... and the price I got it is even more interesting, a fraction of the "regular" ones, let's see ...

thanks ... who's holding you captive ? 🙂

Hello world. I have been invited to start a thread about the above. In a few words, I am unexperienced in the subject, but have some experience with wood working, and because I love bass and wood working, I thought to merge the two passions by assembling/building my new bass guitar. Requirements are bulletted following: - Telecaster body (see below, please) - Long scale - I want to install the double humbucker I just bought from a small UK builder that seems to be powerful and chubby as I like, never tried it before, but I hope it will be a nice warming fatty/meaty sound. I know I will have to modify the pocket for the pickup as it is built for a single coil type. I plan to use my manual router to do so. - I have an idea to install a second hand neck from a jazz bass (left handed) bought recently on ebay (see below) which is fretless (meaning the frets have been removed, so there is still the cut on the neck), and I was wondering how much work I need to do to on it or can I install it as it is? Do I need to fill the cavities left on the neck by taking the fret off? Also, I will definitely have to sand off the heel of the neck as it is rounded and not flat as the pocket on the body. Any suggestion on this latter matter ? I plan to use my manual router to do so. - Finish: I would like to leave the wood color on for both the body and the head of the neck. - Hardware: black hardware all over, with possibly a choice between these two bridges (thanks @walshy for the cool one 😉) (please see attached). Also: I have seen loads of videos on YT about how to mount the bridge in order to put it in the right position and to maintain the 34" scale, but is there anything I should be most aware of here? - String: light rounded: I have these Adagio that are brand new and have been donated to me by lovely wife (or Wi-Fi as I call her 🙂) At the end of the day I am trying to make something that could look a bit (very much only a bit) like a Dusty Hill Tele with on a Joe Dart musicman! LoL Main concern (at the top of the others mentioned above 🙂) : - Attacching the neck to the body: I have done that 2 times in my whole life, and it seems I could have done a better job. Any hints on how to achieve the best result here? Thanks gentlepeople for anything you can suggest! Cheers!

will do thanks for the advice and the warm welcome!

Thanks a million ... diving into the different subjects as we speak, regards!