Beedster

So I have ten basses, 8 of which are projects and two (the Enfields) are staying. All are Fender fit necks/bodies, which makes it a wonderful exercise in mixing and matching to find what works. The maple fretted neck on the third bass up is interesting as it was pretty much dead on an ash body (not pictured above) but sings on the ultra lightweight Squier body it's sitting on now, a body that didn't sing especially well with the block and bound neck, which sings on the Jazz body..... I don't doubt that I'm projecting some of what i hear and feel when I play them in various configurations, and some necks just fit some pockets better than others which will be a factor, but it's bloody good fun finding the right neck for the body, it's Blind Date for basses

The maple neck fretless is 100% staying, the ninja Precision, which has a rather special Warmoth neck, nay or may not...... Took me a very long tine to get the hang of SimS but now I have I can't help thinking they are possibly among the best production basses out there No argument here The David Niven of basses 👍 The body (and the neck), is rather lovely Steve 👍

We are aligned 👍

Gathered together various basses in various stages of construction today, all but two will be heading out (I'll let you guess which two). So many parts, so little time! There's a further two I couldn't be arsed to get out of the pile in the shad also 🤔

Ah man, 15 mins............. 👍

I suspect that he would sound as good whether he's playing a '62 Fender or an Encore, he is great proof of the 'all in the fingers' model 👍

Nice advice, thanks mate 👍

Thanks mate, interesting 👍

Tiger stripe

i had a tiger stripe ebony neck by Warmoth, I’ll dig out some pics. Same feel as normal ebony but very different aesthetic 👍

Anyway, back to the question! Anyone used a spindle sander to fo this?

Yes, and so many more 👍

Took me a long time to get into flats, and even longer into flats on a Jazz, in part because many years ago a guy in a music shop told me "flatwound string sound dead". OK, they're kinda definitive on a Precision and accepted as such, in so many respects they're even more so on a Jazz. Wanna hit some retro heaven? Flats, back PUP on full, front PUP rolled off a little bit, and a pic through an all-tube head. Sorted 👍

And the body/PUPs and neck are a pretty formidable combo, very powerful and focussed, but the full Fender headstock and gaps at the pocket bug the hell out of me 🤔

The cover of Sunburst Finish had quite an effect on my 11-year old self at the time

Yep, I have half of it, but I've tried a lot of Tele-headstocked necks and not got on with any of them, mostly too deep. I now have a standard headstock maple/maple neck that sings on the body in question, hence the thread. Body is below, it's going to be stripped back to natural and then blonded. Neck heel will be reshaped to fit the pocket. It's going to be a bloody lovely bass 👍

Not Tazie 🤔

Lovely isn't it mate 👍

And another

But here's a clue......

Or a Beedster Fendercaster, hard to say at this point

It's going to be a Fender Beedstercaster 👍

I'm keeping my own counsel on shape to ensure that when the bass emerges on the forum I can say "this is the 100% shape I was aiming for...."