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[Silky999]

The Sapele body, wenge neck P bass is nearly finished. Just some knobs and strap lock buttons. This one has fought me all the way with neck shims, poly finish sagas, drilling through the headstock and accidental knocks. It sounds amazing though with Tonerider Precision Plus pickups and a Bloodstone Guitarworks solderless loom. Tuners are USA Hipshot Ultralites and a Gotoh bridge. I tried a custom headstock shape on this one. 
 

It will be sold as a player grade instrument due to the flaws but OMG does it play like a dream! I am tempted to keep it as the neck feels so lovely.

Edited Thursday at 20:14 by Silky999

[80Hz]

Nice one - the colour combo of the body and the red/orange hues in the wenge work well together.

[Silky999]

46 minutes ago, 80Hz said:

Nice one - the colour combo of the body and the red/orange hues in the wenge work well together.

Thank you….its been a journey with this one! I even had to customise the pickguard to show my brand logo, a lesson definitely learned for next time.

[Andyjr1515]

Lovely job.  Kudos to working with wenge like that.  I love the final results when I work with it but it's smelly, splintery and just flipping hard work!

 

But that all said, the very, very best bass neck I have ever played - leaps ahead of anything else I've personally played - was a wenge necked Cort Curbow a mate used to own.

[Silky999]

27 minutes ago, Andyjr1515 said:

Lovely job.  Kudos to working with wenge like that.  I love the final results when I work with it but it's smelly, splintery and just flipping hard work!

 

But that all said, the very, very best bass neck I have ever played - leaps ahead of anything else I've personally played - was a wenge necked Cort Curbow a mate used to own.

I wish I could take full credit for the neck. It’s a very good Chinese one which I have reshaped the headstock and given a lot of love to the back and fretboard. Necks is my next hurdle to jump. Bodies are very forgiving and it I suspect you could strap a bridge and some pickups to a scaffold board and it would play but necks make or break the build. As @Kiwi graphite ones and the multitude of manufacturers that build in China demonstrate, necks being produced there are excellent with only the usual fettling a new neck needs. 
 

By using quality manufactured necks, I can ensure consistency, quality and keep overall build costs down. This allows me to concentrate on custom building gorgeous bodied, fantastic set up and playing basses which I can offer at a non boutique price point. I mean, after all, I’m not doing this to be the next Jon Shuker; I’m a chap with a full time day job who like pottering around in his workshop, trying to not lose a finger on bladed machinery and sanding stuff😂. I have no pretensions that I will ever make money from either building basses or playing in my band😆

[Kiwi]

4 hours ago, Silky999 said:

As @Kiwi graphite ones and the multitude of manufacturers that build in China demonstrate, necks being produced there are excellent with only the usual fettling a new neck needs. 

I've learned the hard way that finding a reliable seller is key. There's a lot of factory rejects on Alibaba and other sites.  And little consumer protection for overseas buyers.  And cowboy sales people who are only concerned with where their next commission is coming from before they jump to the next employer.  

[Silky999]

9 hours ago, Kiwi said:

I've learned the hard way that finding a reliable seller is key. There's a lot of factory rejects on Alibaba and other sites.  And little consumer protection for overseas buyers.  And cowboy sales people who are only concerned with where their next commission is coming from before they jump to the next employer.  

Finding a decent reliable seller is the most importantly thing.