LukeFRC

damaged in that it was destroyed below the 15th fret?!

I've read around this subject and the science behind it enough to know that the easiest way to a good result is finding some proven plans and following something when someone else has poured their time and expertise into!

sorry

Now I know Alex is really really passionate about what is probably some of the best basscabs on the market... but the presence of the Big Baby and Big twin in their lineup would suggest even he would use a horn on some cabs. Someone will be on to explain better but I think it's down to dispersion....

ACG and Wishbass are easy to get confused?!

I would too. But if I were in the @bassmansam position I would spend the cash secondhand and buy a secondhand ACG and a Secondhand Shuker and then have more concrete ideas to base an opinion on... and then sell them to fund the custom build if that's the thing. 24fret 5 string Jazz though... It depends how traditional it needs to sound? I'm not sure with the brief of instrument, I would have ended up narrowing it down to ACG or Shuker.

In the defence of underwealming.... sometimes amazing tone in an instrument jumps out straight away... other times the evenness of the tone, and flat response tonally accross the fretboard sounds underwealming and it lacks colour. It does, but that's it's strength.

You may say Al and I are dreamers But we're not the only ones I hope someday you'll join us And the world will talk about Yamaha BB basses for 308 pages as one...

Won’t that be the same? What would work is some kind of single market for basses across Europe…

Well just be happy in what you end up with through auction and don’t find out what it’s really worth. I missed a few items cos I emailed to ask questions and then the item got pulled cos there was a price he would finish the auction at so if I really want something I ask anyway so I know if I’m going to get gazzumped

Yeah but fender in 1961 wouldn’t have done a custom colour with a tort guard, it would have been mint. I’ve a feeling that John keeps fairly close to vintage accurate. (Hence why @owen isn’t showing off his 5 string Bravewood) - the main difference in what John made me was that the neck is about 41mm at the nut rather than the vintage accurate 44-45mm … cos my hands aren’t that big!

Yep. It looks lovely. When he was building it John kept stressing it would have a mint guard… almost as if most people would want tortoise or something.

Really hard to photograph, it’s not as royal blue as the photos make it look, it’s like a rich lake placid blue - have fiddled with the colour values on my phone so it’s kinda like what I see… obv your screen will be different too! should I pick up the Pantone swatches from work 😜

It’s a Bravewood! Don’t you know the headstock is cropped out of view in all the photos! 😮 it’s like magic

it’s lake placid blue that came out a bit darker I think. 🤣 it’s not got any/much yellowed top coat making it green. That said there seem to be some more faded LPB, and some of the fender custom shop early 60s ri are similar to this… I don’t know 🤷 what blue is the blue fender would have been using in 1960 - I like this though!

And it sounds good too... it plays like an old fender that's just been refretted

I think he had been looking at some of the old ones where it's darkened with age as well yellowed. yeah I was hoping for a wee bit more green. I'm guessing it will do that itself over time

Not a limelight... but I see your purple and raise you early 60's style P in Lake placid blue...

@owen will often pop up in threads to say "there is no one [bass] just the chase" - and I think there's some truth in that... but playing lots of things does help you work out what you like... and I like P basses.... my first proper bass a japanese '57ri... then a Squier series JV '57ri ... then a gap and a Yamaha BB1200 (sounds nothing like a precision) and then bought Gareth's green G&L L1000, a kind of super precision that taught me how much I loved bolt on basses. Fast forward a few years and my main bass is a sadowsky jazz that oddly has a lot of mid punch and not much Jazz bass scoop... and the L1000 and my old Warwick isn't being played so last spring I sold them both and set out looking for a precision.... Firstly, it's taken a while and I want to say thank you to everyone who's ear and expertise I borrowed... @warwickhunt, @Hooch, @boroman, @AndyTravis, @marleaux62, @walshy, @gareth, @owen and whoever else I've pestered with opinions of a billion different basses... There's a man in the UK who when I started playing was making basses that looked like old ones, I wanted one of his creations for at least 15 years... except he doesn't do custom orders at all now and builds what he wants... I had an idea, he liked it and started building it. A year later I got asked if I would like to buy what he had built.... It looks pretty cool I think!

What is the bass? Looks nice

Bass guitars haven’t really changed masses since the ‘50s … one thing that has improved IMO is active circuits being a bit more refined

Thanks @agedhorse - an educational read and thanks for sharing