Oil Finished Ash Jazz Bass -£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;
 

Chinese Ash body handed sanded with with Liberon Finishing Oil and waxed

Chinese Roasted Maple neck with black block inlays

Guyker black tuners

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

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

Wilkinson bridge

Schaller strap lock buttons

Plastic still on black pearl pickguard. 
D’addario 0.45-0.105 EXL 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 have tried to be as transparent as possible.
 

It really does sound amazing and has some real presence when played.

 

Edited 5 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.