benh

Wow, certainly looks different!

One thing I will share is the oak for the fretboard - rather looking forward to seeing this with finish:

Bit of a mysterious one as I have no progress pics (as of yet), but stuck this here as an eventual (near future!) build diary for my next project. I've owned and played all sorts of less conventional basses, but I've never owned a passive 4 string J or P bass. So I've decided that's what I'm going to build for myself next! Leaning towards jazz at the moment, but that may change the closer I get to pickup routing. Got all the wood stacked in the spare room - gone slightly less conventional with wood choices, tried to use local where I can. So at the moment, it's going to be 34" scale 4 string with: English cherry body English rippled pear wood top English ash/English sycamore laminated neck Quartersawn English oak fretboard Updates to come in the near future!

It's looking great!

Looks ace - well done!

Ah, cheers. Shame the closest Axminster to me is about 3 hours away 🙁 not many local hardwoods suppliers near me, certainly none supplying appropriate sizes for guitar/bass building. Thank goodness for the internet!

Is that in store or online? Not seen any timber on the website

Might be a coffee table, but what a damn fine coffee table it is 😍 it oozes quality just from the photos. Big fan of KS basses. Congrats!

Really looking forward to seeing the final result

Cheers. One of the nicest black fades I've seen with burly wood

Looking great! How did you do the black fade around the edges if I may ask, airbrush?

Good lord... I need new pants.

Can't imagine them being comfy for a long time - for bone conduction to work it has to be pretty tight. I perform hearing tests on a daily basis with a BC headset and often have patients complain about it, despite only wearing in for about 5 mins! Would be happy to be proven wrong though.

Good to hear - I bought a set of their jazz pickups a few weeks ago for an upcoming build, based off the strength of a few glowing reviews like yours. Looking forward to seeing what they sound like!

Amazing - I get the feeling a few of us around here will be green with envy when this is done!

Followed - absolutely stunning!

Quick update with the pickup ring kindly 3D printed for me by @Dad3353 - also ordered more wood for the next build! It's a sickness 😂

What a lovely looking piece of wood! Congrats, looks great

That already looks amazing, stellar work sir!

Arrived in the post this afternoon - a light sand to match the pickup finish and all sorted! Many thanks again to @Dad3353 for your help. BC straplocks on display too 🙂

Superlux HD-681 is what I use - cheap as chips and never let me down. Use them all the time with Zoom B1 Four pedal, as well as general music - great for both.

@Dad3353 to the rescue! Will update when it arrives 🙂

I'm becoming increasingly more annoyed at the sloppy routing that I did on the bass I recently built. Does anyone know of anyone who does 3D printing or the like for a pickup surround? Struggling to find anywhere who makes them for bass pickups. Cheers!