Giacomo Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 (edited) Hi guys just wanted to share something I’ve been working over the last 10 months This is my first custom built bass, started from zero, by drawing the bass in 3D (after tutorials on YouTube😂), then decided scale length, woods, hardware and electronics I have my own foderas so I based my draft on a similar shape of the Emperor, the result is a Hybrid monarch/emperor, with right shape to be easily played when sitting on a chair, headless with tuning bridge details 30,75 scale 5 strings B-G zero radius fretboard with SS Evo Gold frets ebony board mahogany back neck through hard Italian flamed maple graphite bars in the neck Flamed maple top nordstrand big singles + Mike pope preamp painted by hand with oil, 10+ layers here’s how it started And here’s the result Edited February 4, 2023 by Giacomo Added graphite bars in the description 24 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SamIAm Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Very nice! I love the wood pattern on the front and the edging. Where did you get those tuning machines? S'manth x 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giacomo Posted January 29, 2023 Author Share Posted January 29, 2023 3 hours ago, Smanth said: Very nice! I love the wood pattern on the front and the edging. Where did you get those tuning machines? S'manth x that’s the difficult part of the story when building an Headless bass.. so difficult to find the right hardware with the right price this one comes from Indonesia, with super nice building quality also of the saddles. started with WSC bridges bought from public peace in Germany but were 11mm too long for my scale.. name is Aldridge Emperindo, you find him on Facebook 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezbass Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Cor! That’s rather splendid. Well done, Sir! 👏👏👏 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheGreek Posted January 29, 2023 Share Posted January 29, 2023 Really good looking Bass...too late for a build thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazycloud Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 18 hours ago, Giacomo said: name is Aldridge Emperindo, you find him on Facebook Is there another contact method as I don't, and won't have a FB account. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giacomo Posted January 30, 2023 Author Share Posted January 30, 2023 I have this email address: [email protected] Please note when dealing with this guy we had a super slow communication... sending 1 message on FB Messenger.. reply after 2 days... reply back in 1hour, following reply after 3 days etc... took me approx 20 days to finalize the purchase 🤣 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giacomo Posted January 30, 2023 Author Share Posted January 30, 2023 On 29/01/2023 at 21:06, TheGreek said: Really good looking Bass...too late for a build thread? well, I do have all the pictures of all the various phases of the building... do you want me to post here the story? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted January 30, 2023 Share Posted January 30, 2023 17 minutes ago, Giacomo said: well, I do have all the pictures of all the various phases of the building... do you want me to post here the story? Uhhhhh..... yes!! Top job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazycloud Posted January 31, 2023 Share Posted January 31, 2023 8 hours ago, Giacomo said: I have this email address: [email protected] Please note when dealing with this guy we had a super slow communication... sending 1 message on FB Messenger.. reply after 2 days... reply back in 1hour, following reply after 3 days etc... took me approx 20 days to finalize the purchase 🤣 Thanks. I'm not in any hurry. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeftyJ Posted February 2, 2023 Share Posted February 2, 2023 On 29/01/2023 at 20:25, Giacomo said: that’s the difficult part of the story when building an Headless bass.. so difficult to find the right hardware with the right price this one comes from Indonesia, with super nice building quality also of the saddles. started with WSC bridges bought from public peace in Germany but were 11mm too long for my scale.. name is Aldridge Emperindo, you find him on Facebook They look like the ABM bridges that Status used briefly in the 90s, before they switched to the current, more rounded, ABM model. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueMoon Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 Very nice, @Giacomo! Well done. Very interested to see more pictures and details of how your bass build journey progressed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giacomo Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 Sorry, been out for the full week! here's some picture Test of the final shape on a cheap wood board Start of the mahogany back back shape almost finished, with 1.2cm left in the central part where the neck goes through time to start the neck and here's the assembled neck + eboard + back graphite bars + truss rod neck joint.. in progress 😂😂😂😂 flamed top completed neck joint completed (by hand.....😭) custom neck head ebony ramp her's the first color next to a real fodera 35 scale (white was the original color I didn't really like.. so decided to redo all the paint) hope it helps!! 4 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 It all looks so easy I am fully aware that it is not! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giacomo Posted February 4, 2023 Author Share Posted February 4, 2023 6 hours ago, Owen said: It all looks so easy I am fully aware that it is not! Definitely not easy.. And not cheap! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Owen Posted February 4, 2023 Share Posted February 4, 2023 9 minutes ago, Giacomo said: And not cheap! It never is Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giacomo Posted February 11, 2023 Author Share Posted February 11, 2023 Added 3D printed Ramp 🤠 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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