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No crimson?

Oooffftt! 😍 Quality.

And we thank you for your impending activities. Obviously we’ll need some creamy plastic additions to make a valued judgement.

To be clear, I’m looking forward to seeing the results and I’m making myself suitably comfortable for the incoming posts. I’m not here to píss on anyone’s fireworks, which seems to be quite de rigueur amongst some folk recently. I love a build thread.

Worked for Bernard.

I SAY! 😱 To be fair I didn’t see the word varnish first time. Still…

Nah, same hue as the body. However, on reflection, that could look a bit Fisher Price depending on which colour you go for. Hmm, can’t go wrong with black. Oh well, nothing to see here, move along.

Sorry for the guitar

One of my favourite finishes ever was a PRS with teal over black; yummy.

Purple, blue and green work well with cream (not at the same time).

I'd go with a medium stain to bring out the grain and highlight the cream adornments. Perhaps something like this... See, I can be sensible.

Geddy!

Eee, who's that young shaver?

With that black hardware on, the light maple looks pukka. I know you want to go dark, but…

Using an octave pedal and/or a chorus pedal can help. But don’t just take it on yourself to fill out the sound, your guitar player can also use a chorus or, perhaps even better, a loop pedal to double the rhythm parts or keep it going during solos. Conversely, embrace the space and make it part of your band’s sound.

Just watched it and really enjoyed it. I only wish I’d see this timestamp beforehand as I missed you.

It seems there is a vampiric twist to my short scale of choice - Met under fangs.

Nordy NP4 or NP4A for a more scooped eq? I’m currently thinking of buying a nice playing Squier CV P and upgrading the crap out of it, so I’m on YT comparing pickups - a lot. Current winner is the DiMarzio DP122, which turns out to be ceramic, to my surprise.

So named for the design influence coming from the Alhambra Palace.

I tried them to lessen the marking of the board on my fretless. I tried LaBellas and wasn’t keen. Then EB brought out cobalt flatwounds so I gave them ago and I really liked them to the point where I have them on 3 of my 4 basses. I like the feel, I like the tone (more like a nicely broken in set of nickel roundwounds then the thuddy tone you get with some flatwounds) and, of course, they’re kinder to my fretless.

How about a double J instead of an MM?

My basses are 33” scale and are normally fitted with 45-100, I use a drop D tuner. No issues. I recently had to replace an E string due to breakage and could only replace with a 105, can’t say I can tell any difference. This is with EB cobalt flatwounds.

Loving that mock up. I had an off the shelf Jake, it was nice enough, but didn’t have the ‘personality’ of my 2 custom builds. This may have been down to the more than adequate Bass Culture pickup not exciting me but, whatever it was, when I needed to offload a bass to finance my JMJ Mustang GAS, it was an easy choice which bass was to go. As you’re looking to order a custom build, rather than off the shelf, I think it’s a safe call providing you get your pickup choice right.

Nah, that’s facing the enemy and going in at the deep end, make it so!