JimBobTTD

Nice. I would love to meet Dave. He did a cracking job on the body and neck I recently received. There are a few tweaks to do there too, and he and I are sorting it. I'm amazingly impressed with his work.

Shame about the review, though. Something to look forward to, then!

How did it go yesterday afternoon?

[quote name='JimBobTTD' timestamp='1384023944' post='2272096']
[size=4]What needs to be done:[/size]
Attach tuners to the new fretless neck
Put the string retainers on too
Attach the neck to my Warmoth Jazz body
File nut

And, on the body:
Take off scratchplate to access thumb rest and misc bits and bobs that are being stored in the cavity
Shielding tape for the cavities
Mounting foam for the pickups (on order…I foolishly left some behind)
Wire it all up
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Right…I have managed to get four of the tuners on. The fifth one has been cross-threaded and needs replacing. How did this happen? Either I did it or it was like that from the factory (a little less likely). The holes were a little too tight for the tuners and I think it may have happened when trying to put it on the fourth hole (for the D string). I widened the D and G holes with a bit of sandpaper and now the tuners go in nicely. I shall order a new Ultralite for the G and curse the mounting costs of this project! But you know what? I shall order it already changed to left-handed. Pardon my French, but "ce n'est pas possible à convertir les Hipshots" so I shall only order from somewhere that will change it [i]before[/i] sending it out!

Still lots of photos on the way. The body is full-on luscious. I shall get to shielding it this week coming up. I'm away for a couple of days but I should have it done before the week is over so I do all the wiring next weekend.

I've had the bass in my possession for about a week now. I am now finally finding the time to put it together. What I have done so far is just fiddling - I put my Warmoth neck on Dave's body (perfect fit) and had a play.

What needs to be done:
Attach tuners to the new fretless neck
Put the string retainers on too
Attach the neck to my Warmoth Jazz body
File nut

And, on the body:
Take off scratchplate to access thumb rest and misc bits and bobs that are being stored in the cavity
Shielding tape for the cavities
Mounting foam for the pickups (on order…I foolishly left some behind)
Wire it all up

What has to be said - and I think I said it when doing the last project - Hipshot's tuners are great but they really are not adjustable. They claim to be left or right handed; all you need to do is unscrew the bolt thing. Easy as 1-2-3!!! Except this is not the case. The bolt takes an Allen key (the smallest one known to mankind), is made of amazingly soft metal and has been monster-tightened so it is nigh impossible to get it out. I have the tuner in the freezer in an attempt to shrink the metal a little bit so I can unscrew it easier. It worked last time, so...

Many, many photos to follow.

Hooray! Mine arrived the other day but I have been far too busy to do much with it. Enjoy the bass and say hi to Dave and your grandfather!

Pointy basses.

I bought one a few years ago. The moment I strapped it on, I realised I looked a plonker.

Mine is done too! In the post as we speak.

I have a 90s Ibanez SR1205. I seem to recall reading somewhere that they only made 150 of them.

Edit: oops. I sometimes forget that I'm not in the UK!

Mr SR1205 and 1206 from the mid 90s.

The SR1205 is hands-down the best instrument I have ever played. I'm not sure why Ibanez reused the model name for the newer versions.

Nicely done - good work!

Dave has sent me some cracking photos of the COMPLETED BASS. More info when it arrives. It will take time, but I can handle it. Luckily, I am out travelling all over Scandinavia next week, so I won't have a moment to think about it!

Me! More pics of this wonderful creation!

Yup - a Blythe and a Pullip. My wife makes jewellery for them and has a shop on Etsy.

Are you a fan?

[quote name='Biaeothanata-Bassist' timestamp='1382372754' post='2251387']
Oh man, why have I only just seen this? This is ridiculously beautiful! You need to do some sound samples pleaaaaase!
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Your wish is my command! I shall do some when my fretless P project has been completed.

[quote name='kevin_lindsay' timestamp='1382377614' post='2251469']
Looks Mega!!!
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Thanks! Plays mega too. So well, in fact, that I have had the neck cloned for my P bass!

Nice touch!

Hold on, ladies and gentlemen...

The bass is ready. Dave is waiting for some scratchplate screws to arrive and will have the whole kit and caboodle in the post next weekend.

No new photos, so this will have to do for now:

Excellent thread - thanks everyone! I'm also struggling with this and need it done in two weeks, so no great hurry. The singer wants us to play it in F# too, making it somewhat impossible to play along with any of the available tracks.

Very nice - very classy.

Sad to hear that he has had personal problems - John sorted me out with some nicely priced parts a while back. Quick delivery too, but I won't mention that here.

Poor Dave...I keep adding things to this.

We are in discussions about a scratchplate now. The idea was that he would send one which I could use as a template, but due to my recent move, I am not in a position to do anything like that at all. The two scratchplates he has used as props in the pics in this thread - the brown/red tort and the red tort - are in poor nick, so that's them out.

I would also like to point out that Dave kindly offered to send me his nut files so I could sort the nut out and also to wire it up for me if I sent my pickups. What a gent! There was no need for either, as I brought my soldering iron and nut files with me [Aug 2013-Jan 2014: living out of a couple of suitcases].

[quote name='Rumple' timestamp='1381132433' post='2234593']
Looking lush Jim.
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Thanks! I've been working out.

Oh, you meant the bass! I agree!

I might have...I ordered a rack and some bits and bobs about five years ago from either Music Store Professional or some other German shop with "Music" in their name. No problems.

Still, the true measure of a shop is what they do when things go wrong, so I can't help you here.

A rather nice update from Dave; it is pretty much ready. He has made a thumbrest out of an offcut from the ebony fingerboard. The bass looks stunning...as I said to Dave, that first ding is really going to hurt me!

Quick edit to add: the thumbrest is not attached. Dave has cut down some screws to be able to show what it will look like once attached. I shall need to experiment (using double-sided tape) with positions before I attach it in a more permanent way.

Excellent work and excellent pictures too. Score!

Mmmm....very nice. The top looks like marble. The body looks spectacular!