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Thanks Guys, I think we're going to use quarter sawn maple fo the centre core of the neck. I actially like the look of a maple body with just a dark cap on the front face only...... just personal I guess Bedders..... class bass player loved his Precision tone back in the day I'm going to throw my deposit down this weekend to get the ball rolling...... great when it's not your money isn't it !? ATB Mark

Guys, after much scratching of Nuts...... I've decided on my Custom 40th Birthday Bass I'm going to have a "Dave Wilson" Dave has looked after my Instruments for the last decade and has "fettled" my Basses from Alembic, Fodera, GB, Sadowsky, Jaydee, Fender CS Modulus ..... etc etc His work is outstanding and it will mean a lot that a mate has built my 40th Birthday present to my Spec.... certainly much more than having a Butterfly or a Cloud on my headstock !!! Spec as follows : Neck Through Construction with Jazz Shape Body & Headstock 34 inch Scale Maple Neck thru construction 5 piece with 2 Purple heart stringers Ebony Fretboard Chambered Swamp Ash body wings Bookmatched cocobola top & headstock laminate Nordstrand Big Singles Aguilar OBP1 preamp Gold Harware Hipshot Ultra light machine heads Hipshot Bridge The Bass will be constructed slowly over the next 16 months beginning with the Neck Blank which will be started very soon giving plenty of time for the wood to settle together as it's constructed. I may do a Build Diary even !! Thanks for all the great suggestions Guys Mark

[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='502692' date='May 31 2009, 11:28 PM']Thats the key benefit from a well crafted instrument. If the woods are selected and well matched, the instrument should feel alive. No dead spots, the whole instrument is rigid and each note jumps off the fingerboard. But even the wood from the same tree can sound different depending on what part of the trunk its come from. There's no reliable way to distinguish the best wood from adequate wood apart from experience. It's the acid test of a craftsman who can pick and match the woods that give rise to this quality. There are many similarities with violins in that respect I guess. BTW, I contacted a supplier of the ancient swamp kauri that was used in that guitar I posted earlier. They want $6500 (£2500) a cubic metre for the most dramatically grained stuff because there's only a limited supply.[/quote] Heck..... I think i'll go into the old tree business !!

[quote name='birdy' post='501796' date='May 30 2009, 05:43 PM']Mark - What's a keeper? :-) Lovely bass Steve, I am looking forward to owning this one day :-)[/quote] I'm hoping to find out for my 40th