mrbacco

love each and every of them, well well done!!

Hi everyone. Kindly asking if anyone has the 1:1 pdf design/pic of the for the wal pro bass head as seen below ? I have a neck that I would like to turn into this. Thanks mrbacco

Hey. Wanna share with you my last creation. Pure assembly with a few components found on the second hand market.0 A bit of wood work for sanding the body and the neck, a bit of work in the neck pocket (was a mm larger than the neck so I used a maple veneer on the internal sides of the neck poscket to fill the gap). Plus some oiling of the neck and the body after finishing the sanding. - cedar body (or at least I think it is since is soft and light) - maple + maple neck - added stickers on the inlays to conceal the original black dots - no brands P bass pickups + rosswell jazz bridge pickup (thanks to @orangepeelneil) - cream control knobs (thanks to @orangepeelneil, again!) - adagio string - musiclily tuners and bridge Notes: Nice low action throughout the whole fretboard A bit of neck dive there, unfortunately ... how to fix it? Thanks for lookin!

Yeah ... The warman drivetrain is a beast. I have in the second P51 style bass I assembled and it sounds a lot nicer compared to the green one, which is, as you correctly stated, less powerful. But good enough for the money and for this project. I remember this baby bass, and at the time I said ... This is LOVELY! It stuck in my head probably when I was building this one. Love the color of yours too!

not sure ... at the beginning I wanted a very minimal design with just one knob for the volume, but now I got to two (V+T), and I would like to have the full power of the 4 in series if you know what I mean?

thanks! appreciated the clarification on the head and the offer!! thanks! 🙂

now, as usual, the first OSB floor picture of the bass, which is almost finished. I miss the strings and the machine heads that are arriving soon. Control plate modified to shar edges rather than rounded, plus installation of the pickup. I wanted to place a chrome ring around the pickup, but saince I am satisfied with the routing, this time, I think I leave it as it is.

wonderful bass and project, this one.

Yeah. Exactly. I wanted to put the jack on the side, but I "engineered" (hahahahah, big word for me) a P51 style plate to host 3 holes and modified it to suit the shape of the bass. I'll show yousss soon!

I like this one more, thanks!

Now the pickup has arrived, so I finished routing the cavities for it and for the control plate. I modified the P51 standard plate into a sharp edges one, and ready now to solder the controls to the pickup. I'm happy with both cavities, finally I think I did a better job than with the other basses. I used a home made template made of pine sticks to route the edges. One quick question: what is the best way to drill the holes from the pickup cavity to the control cavity in your experience? And what drill bit to use? Thanks!

bit of an update here. I had lowered the neck to a more comfortable spot in order to minimize the possibilities of wood bending (thanks @Doctor J for the suggestion). Also, cust a bit the waist (no dieat has ever been that fast in my experience) cutting a bit of wood on the two sides. Colored the body with a couple of coats of green. Basic glossy green. The color is still draft, in the sense that I will have to spray it another wee coat to make it more even, but I think I like the combo of colors in this bass. I still have to finish the back, but I think I like keeping the two different colors in the back side of the body. Yes, I started coating without having routed the pickup area yet (pickup is arriving, but it's late), I know: I could not wait, I had some more time available so I wanted to go ahead, but since it is the first layer of paint, I think it might not be a big problem.

no control plate and only knobs would be lovely too!

wow ... what a lovely collection there! May I ask: have you built the necks too? lot to learn here!!

Beautifully beautiful!

Brilliant... Thanks for this ... I can't say it was by design because it was not, but I tried to make the two wings similar degree angle, never thought of a V shape. Yesterday I was redesigning it with pencil and paper to cut a bit the waist ( it's chubby like mine !!!) and make it a bit more lean ... Thanks for this insight!!!

yes thanks, this is a good point also ... As I will have to move the neck a bit further down the bottom of the body to make sure it sits on a bigger slab of wood and have a bit more wood around the neck as suggester by @Doctor J (maintaining as well my 34inches scale) I will put a chrome plate for that, after the body is fully painted without the neck, of course!

Thanks @LeftyJ, no idea where it comes from. I bought it on an auction from a charity shop, loooong time ago. But it seems solid and, even if it is very very pre loved, seems in good conditions: straight enough. Yes it seems to be made by attaching 2 sides together, the grains and colour are slightly different between the two sides and also you can clearly see a piece attached in the headstock.

cheers!! torn between the colors myself too ... wanna something a bit different this time from the wood looking colour of my my first 2 bass ... pastel and not glossy thou ...

this is a nice design for a body ... well picked!! I'll try to keep mine a bit more even on the two sides as much s I can, as I like the balanced between the two sides and the even bottom 100% oarallel with pickup and bridge ... (I know ... booooriiing!!!)

That's a very good point, I was thinking, since I have room in the bottom of the bass body, to move the neck a bit lower so the pickup and the bridge in order to have more body wood for the neck?

I might have to cut some extra wood from the sides, I guess the body is still too chubby on the sides!