Brams77 Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 (edited) Hi I wanted to share this with all of you. As in a few days I'll be receiving my replica/restauration project from great Slovakian luthier Igor Keller. I had supplied Igor with almost all original parts, detailed pics every thinkable info I gathered over 3 to 4 years of these early '66 bound and dots basses.. It took about one and a half years to perfect but the result is quite stunning, and worth the wait! I saw Igors work on Ebay a few years prior and was very impressed with what he had up at the time. These where very nicely done remakes of early '60s jazz necks and those led me to his website where he had some crazy cool 7 string hollowbody guitars up. Anyways a relationship grew from there and It turend out Igor was very interested to work on a perfect '66 J replica and using original parts to get it right. He actually had made xrays (thru a local vet) of both an original '66 neck and a '71 which I had supplied him to get the trussrod route just right.. Something I havent ever seen aswell, sure was fun to experience that! I also had supplied Igor with some celluloid dot material which is very close to the real thing, it was crazy hard to get stuff. Then Igor appeared to have some Brazillian rosewood stacked away in his lumber stash, prolly had it when it still was legal to have... so we used that on the fretboard to be again as period correct as possible.. Not that all 66 jazzes had Brazillian rosewood boards but many had.. Anyways... I will update this thread with all the small details between this bass and the original parts, so everyone can see what a great job Igor did.. I'm really pleased as these pics where sent to me last week: Edited July 14, 2014 by Brams77 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
umcoo Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 Dot and bound necks and matching headstocks Great bass! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brams77 Posted July 7, 2014 Author Share Posted July 7, 2014 Here some of the stuff I gathered... For this build, the celluloid dots.. And a in pretty nice shape late '65 pickguard with some lovely figure to it;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntLockyer Posted July 7, 2014 Share Posted July 7, 2014 That is superb and insane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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