Oil Finished Ash Bodied Jazz Bass with Roasted Maple Neck -£300 £300 Fleet, Hampshire

[Silky999]

The next stage of my build journey is for sale and is the last one where I use a pre-cut body before making my own from a blank;

 

Ash body which was handed sanded with Liberon Finishing Oil and waxed

Roasted Maple neck with rolled edges and black block inlays. Fret levelled and dressed. The back of the neck has also been sanded to give a smooth fast feel.

Guyker black tuners

Passive Wilkinson pickups (scratch near a pole on the bridge one)😣

Bloodstone Guitarworks electronics with push pull for parallel/series and volume/volume/ tone

Wilkinson bridge

Genuine Schaller strap lock buttons

Original protective plastic still on black pearl pickguard. 
New D’addario 0.45-0.105 EXL165 strings

Graphtech Tusq nut
 

Everything on this bass is new and it has never been gigged or played beyond the setup process. Please check all the photos as I like to be as transparent as possible with all my builds. This is a one of a kind bass and would make a fantastic gigging beast with the potential to mod at your leisure. I make basses that are intended to be gigging workhorses.
 

It really does play and sound amazing. The bass has some real presence when played. Collection from Fleet, Hampshire and you are absolutely encouraged to give it a play to make sure you’re happy before you part with your hard earned cash. Any questions, queries or if you want to see more photos to help you decide then please just get in touch.

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Silky999

[MJJS]

Looks great. How many hours did that take?

[Silky999]

12 minutes ago, MJJS said:

Looks great. How many hours did that take?

Thank you. The most time consuming bit was the hand sanded oil finish on the body as it needed to dry between coats. I think I put about 10-15 coats on and I could get maybe 2 coats a day as well as monitoring for bleed back from the wood. I suspect there is a total of at least 10 hours actual work just in the body finish. 
 

I haven’t nitro or poly clear coated this one and just went with wax instead similar to a Warwick finish. Although it’s less tough, it is much easier to deal with any scratches, knocks or dinks in the long run as you just raise or sand the boo boo and then oil and wax. There is also a pleasure in a bit of periodic waxing. 

[petecarlton]

Crikey, that’s lovely. Great work!
 

GLWTS, someone’s going to get a real bargain.