A quick and impulsive assembly: PJ Bass

[mrbacco]

Hey.

Wanna share with you my last creation. Pure assembly with a few components found on the second hand market.0

A bit of wood work for sanding the body and the neck, a bit of work in the neck pocket (was a mm larger than the neck so I used a maple veneer on the internal sides of the neck poscket to fill the gap). Plus some oiling of the neck and the body after finishing the sanding.

 

- cedar body (or at least I think it is since is soft and light)

- maple + maple neck

- added stickers on the inlays to conceal the original black dots

- no brands P bass pickups + rosswell jazz bridge pickup (thanks to @orangepeelneil)

- cream control knobs (thanks to @orangepeelneil, again!)

- adagio string

- musiclily tuners and bridge

 

Notes:

Nice low action throughout the whole fretboard

A bit of neck dive there, unfortunately ... how to fix it? 

 

Thanks for lookin!

 

 

 

 

Edited May 16 by mrbacco

[BassApprentice]

Looks cool! Neck dive - might have to bite the bullet and upgrade the tuners to some form of Ultralites.

[Andyjr1515]

Looking good

 

Ref neck dive - on the strap at least, once you have a strap button at the end of the upper horn it is very unlikely that it will dive.  The button will be well in the 'goldilocks' zone, at pretty much 12th fret and as such, the weight distribution would have to be massively out for it not to balance

 

If it is imbalanced over the knee, and that's how you prefer playing, there are a few decent options:

 

- As @BassApprentice says, you could fit some Utralights - the 'Licensed by' Hipshots are great quality and good value

 

- you could take a bit of timber off the headstock, ie keep the shape but make it a bit slimmer/shorter/thinner.  The leverage effect enhances the effect of relatively small changes 

 

- widen the bottom waist carve forward so the bass sits on your knee further forward of the centre of gravity.  Again, a centimeter or so can make a big difference