Silky999

For you, Headless, of course!!! some more oil today….

Intrigued???…..

Well if you want a J bass……….keep checking in as I have a piece of walnut and some elm with possibly a curly spalted sycamore drop top earmarked for some Js.

Well that’s the oil sanding finished and just the final coats of Liberon Finishing oil now. The chatoyance on the Sapele is gorgeous and the grain is starting to really come out. The Liberon is such a joy to work with.

I would love a CNC machine!!!

Yeah, I am using templates for the body shape at the moment until I get my eye in. The curved edges are a 12.7mm round over router bit (no template) and I did the comfort cut by eye and hand with a Shinto and sanding. The comfort cut is not very pronounced as I quite like the more subtle less angled style I have P bass and Jazz bass templates so can do either. I’m not brave enough to try necks yet so will keep using the Chinese ones for the time being until I can get a radius jig, fretting cutting jig, truss rod jig etc. It’s all so bloody expensive! It does mean that I am not limited to pre cut bodies now so in theory can use any wood I can source.

I spent the day turning this piece of Sapele; into this Precision Bass body; It will be for sale soon on BC probably with EMG pickups and preamp and Wenge neck??? The body finish will be hand sanded finishing oil to as much of a gloss as I can get. I think it’s going to be a beauty.

I would literally check everything again as if you were doing a fresh set up. Level the neck(no relief) then run a fret rocker up the frets again. Check the frets in 3 places across each fret. Level any cheeky rockers! Set the neck relief again Check the nut slot heights. Set the string heights and make sure they follow the fretboard radius. I bet you still have a high fret at the bottom of the neck.

Have you checked if the nut slot for the D is too low or a twisted neck?

A nitro finished Fender would be an American made version (I believe) coming in £1500-2000 new. For me to do one the same as headless’s: okoume body nitro paint and clear coat Chinese roast maple neck fender vintage pickups gotoh bridge guyker tuners bloodstone guitars works electronics with fender capacitor you’d be looking about £400-500. I’m just starting out so not charging serious money as it doesn’t seem right until I get a bit of a trusted reputation. I’m doing my initial ones at cost or a close to it as possible with hardly anything for my time. if you wanted more affordable pickups( headless changed his himself for the fender), bridge, tuners etc I could get it in cheaper.

The green machine is all finished. It started as black and is now a gorgeous Emerald Green as you can’t get that colour in a shortscale left hander

In my humble opinion, you could save yourself at least £1200 on a Fender and have one of mine lol

it was 9.4lbs when i weighed for the advert. Also the bass has that little something extra in it……..my love, blood, sweat and tears lol

I think my build is JB1 only because it is more “zingy” and I seem to remember headless wanted to change some stuff to make mine more. towards the higher frequencies but then I am absolutely clutching at straws between the two. I hope so because I prefer the sound of the first one as I prefer the less muddy sound. Either way for a change of capacitor and some different pickups on the price of the original bass it is a fraction of the cost of the Fender