Latest Veneering Job - Custom Fretless

[Andyjr1515]

Hi

There's a last remaining thing to fix (some sort of trim around the neck pickup to hide the over-sized rout) where there is a helpful debate going on in Build Diaries but this is the latest veneering job I've just completed.
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It's based on a Custom Fretless bass which I then did the same stripdown and veneering job as described in my other recent post Veneering an Ibanez Bass - Tips and Techniques in 'Build Diaries'.

The veneer is a Burl Walnut - it's like playing a Bentley Continental Dashboard

I added a series pull switch to one of the volume pots so it now has two options - absolutely standard vol vol tone with the neck vol in the down position (standard parallel configuration) then, with the neck vol in the up position, it switches to the two coils in series, with the neck vol becoming master volume and the tone as normal. I'm delighted with the result.

The Jaguar I posted earlier in the year is a definite keeper but this one will probably be put on the Basses For Sale (my wife recently pointed out that 6 guitars and 2 basses is too many seeing that, in her view, I can't play any of them properly ). If anyone is interested before I get it in the right folder, feel free to PM me.

Thanks for looking
Andy