Lee-Man

Interesting. I’d quite like to find a home for some oversized Aero dual coil pickups I have. A j4 string jazz body (potentially reduced size) and 34” neck. Natural finish - Tru oil neck, thin satin nitro body. Rosewood type fingerboard, nickel silver frets, graphite rods. Neck radius from my vintage Sadowsky. Truss rod wheel adjuster at body end similar to the MusicMan design. Bone nut. Chrome Nickel hardware: Hipshot Type A bridge, BT1 machine heads and D-Tuner. The Aero pickups coupled to an Aguilar OBP3 preamp. Magnetic electronics cavity. Bell control plate. Liminlay side markers.

I've heard this IRL and it is immense!

Todays update: Cavities shielded Trem Fitted Pickups in Controls drilled. All holes are angled to come out of the carve top on the surface perpendicular. Inside the holes are counterbored to make sure the nuts sit flat on the pocket floor. Up next is to tidy the EMG plug and play wiring. Sort frets and a set up and then it should be ready to rawk! Thats my new Bassworks Fretless PPJ5 wearing a fresh undercoat

Base coat done. Now for Nitro and then let it cure and final assembly can take place.

Almost there. BTW the white bass is my Bassworks PPJ5 Fretless build in its undercoat ready for final paint and assembly.

Checked my email this morning and theres more progress and news on the parts build. The side mount jack hole has been cut and reamed: The inserts for the Gotoh trem don't match the ones in the body. Sims arn't too sure what trem they are from. With this in mind the inserts are going to be removed, plugged and replaced. This was meant to be a quick home parts build, but it's out of my wheelhouse. Pleased I called in a professional!

Bit of an update: Neck is on and cable routing holes drilled. Strap buttons drilled and on. The machine head holes were different sizes on each side of the headstock. The original holes have been drilled out and reamed.

Its really deep looking

More pics. My PPJ5 body is in for paint. Base coat is first, then its being shot in nitrocellulose Daphne blue. Theres another PPJ5 fretted up for grabs thats shortly going in to paint. I think capri orange or Daphne blue is on the cards. If your quick get a deposit down and choose So far I'm really knocked out by luthier Bruce's attention to detail and clever engineer touches that should make this bass smoke on gigs. Here's my neck on a PJJ5 body thats also available for spec'ing and build.

So, back in lockdown 1.0 I brought a Sims Guitars body and neck. I thought it would be a fun project. But, it needed a little more fettling than my limited DIY skills would allow. As I need a guitar for work I've decided to give up and pass it on to a professional to finish. Bruce Hartley at @Bassworks is a great luthier and has agreed to put the final pieces together for me. Specs are: Sims Guitars body & neck. The finish is beautiful. It looks black at a distance, but is actually a very dark, slightly translucent root beer with a fleck of purple). EMG 81 in the neck and bridge, prob going to just skip the middle pickup and go HH Gotoh VS100 trem Hipshot locking machine heads Its going to be a great shred machine when its done.

Just a quick update. My fretless is ready to be shot in nitro in the next couple of weeks. Not long now! Here it is with a couple of other builds in progress. The side mounted locking jack being fitted. Bruce at @Bassworks has a real eye for details.

More progress on my PPJ5 Fretless. It's ready for the Daphne Blue nitro paint to be added. Not long now! Incidentally these two 2 JPJ5 basses (Swamp Ash) are available and looking for a home. #GAS

A tobacco sunburst has been mentioned, but I have a few other basses that are similar, so still going for the Nitro Daphne Blue I think.

Just a quick update. My PPJ5 Fretless body is grain sealed and ready for paint. Looks too pretty to paint a solid colour! The weight is going to be bang on 4kg to match my fretted PPJ5. Decent weight for a 5 string.

I got to have a quick play on this the other day. It's awesome, so much GAS for it.

A few more pictures from this weeks build progress. The extended thumb groove on the heal is really comfy on my fretted PPJ5. Really impressed with the build progress and attention to detail. This isn't the final control cover. The actual cover is a slightly newer enhanced design using magnets instead of screws.

Thanks man. The pickup height is a pretty smart solution. Feels like it's going to be super gig worthy (when gigs I back of course😭).

Thanks man, it's a thing of beauty to play as well. Really made up with it.

Video update from Bruce at Bassworks of the Body being machined.