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maybe also left handed one?

thanks a million!

hehe, how much longer can you wait, sir? 🙂

Yep, the head is angled back, not sure why some necks are like this? Is there any explanation or just for the strings? Anyway, all valid suggestions, I like the 2L+2R idea myself too! And the angled back tele also! 🙂

Hello again gentlepeople ... Following the first attempt (here), on which many of you have sent loads of very useful for me hints, I am starting a second attempt to assemble a bass guitar with this thread. Telecaster body (coming soon, bought it, again, from a luthier in Italy). Pickup: Warman. (presented in the other thread, but not used) Neck: chinese made maple and rosewood: the main theme of this thread. Please have a look at the pictures below. Could you kindly weigh your ideas on what a nice and innovative neck head would be? I have the tools for carving it, does not mean I am gonna do a good job 🙂, but I would love to trigger you innovative ideas with this thread. Again I will have to square the bottom of the heel (see above quoted thread), and I will make use of the awesome hints I got. Would love your ideas on the following: - How to make a nice, good, and robust head neck? - Best technique to extend the V shape P51 pickup pocket to host the warman (link above) - Any other ideas I haven't though about to make the bass nicer. Sorry if I am asking loads of help, if it is too much and I am out of context, just let me know thanks 🙂 And, BTW, please do also let me know if you like my cheap 18mm plywood floor in the attic, thanks 🙂 !

I find this better than a wikipedia page , thanks for sharing and very well done (even from me who has a lot to learn, but thanks!) 🙂

Hello !! Thanks a million for the Bravo! I appreciate the bumps! Thanks. Your suggestion made me think ... and yes it is a very "sexy" suggestion: I tried to keep the costs low, so I reused a lot of elements that I had in my small stock; more importantly there is a reason why the silver bridge instead of the brass one: again, sorry, OCD driven, but both the bridge and the head are the top and the bottom of the whole bass, so in my head, I have the same container color at the top and the bottom! Does this make sense? Anyways let me think. As I said your suggestion is super. I think I can spare 10 euros for a brass colored bridge to accompany with the silver coloured ! Thanks!!! 🙂

yeah ... that is also a bug for me too ... I was trying tomhide it from my OCD, but it comes back ... I have a saw that I use for my wood work, that can cut metal too ... will try today to fix it according to the shape of the body ... In fairness, I left it like that as I thought would give a very old and rough touch to the body ... mmmh ... you made me think again! 🙂

final pics here ... changes: - bridge: my OCD forced me to have bridge and pegs same color: but my OCD forced me also to have part of the bridge in brass as the control plate, so I installed the old bridge saddles in a new silver bridge. - Control knobs: I had these already so I thought to mount them intead of looking for new ones: they are silver colored as the rest of the main hardware. Thanks for looking and for all the advice, gentlepeople .

too kind, Sir, thanks! 🙂

thanks man! what about the plywood? is it gorgeous too? ... haha ... sorry I am messing, I am not wise these days, apologies! Thanks for the support I will try to get some chicken head knobs and I'll send final pictures!

you mean the 18mm plywood in the attic where I did not put any floor cause I spend all my money in basses, watches, drums, and other stuff?

I thought about that, I wanna change the hardware to silver rather than black, as I wanna use the black pegs, knobs and bridge for the second project yeah they seem to be a good choice according to others here! 🙂 the paint was acrylic red from the luthier, and I sprayed it with some satin black paint, cause I wanted to give it a darker tone thanks. Knobs will be changed, with some basic silver based, thanks! 🙂

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Good morning ! I am following up in relation to this topic: the project has taken a few nice turns and has accelerated a bit. For instance, I did not have to square the heel of the neck as I found a nice Telecaster like neck on Ebay for around 100 euros, second hand, but in very good conditions and it has exactly the measurements of the telecaster like body I had, so, I changed those two elements and proceeding to the assembly with quite some good satisfaction. I can send some preliminary pictures here below. I have changed the pickup as well cause, while excercising with the hand router, I was only able to makde some abstract- sculptures out of the wood I was training on; and since Wi-Fi has gifted me with one more body, so that I can use my neck above, then I will have a second project for Q4 2023 - Q1 2024, where I will ise the warman pickup. I got into some issues when mounting the pickup, meaning that since the body is spruce, is quite soft compared to other types of wood, so when carefully drilling the mini holes for the pickup screws ... I screwed the bottom ... so: wood refill, and I installed also a wood patch in the pickup as the cavity was made very deep. The pickup I used here is a mini humbucker and it is from a small producer in Italy: IUSO pickups. It is nice, and sound quite warm anmd rounded for my taste. I am happy with that. Strings are the adagio of the previous pictures. The bass has been painted rustic red with some black drizzle around to give more road worn kind of look. It has been called Tele Ferrari in honour to my hometown car manufacturer which is performing s**** in F1 🙂, but mainly because the body was painted acrylic red already! The machine head gear is silver colored, so I will change the tone and volume knobs and the bridge to be silver as the head pegs. I installed strings and everything to test the pickup and make sure the volume and tone work properly. Please, point out any mistake I am making or anything you do not like, any critique is welcome as a lesson learnt! Thanks!

Interesting for me to know what drives you to move to short scales if possible? I'm a newbie too, I'm trying to learn a bit more . Thanks and welcome too!!!

welcome from another newbie!

I was very afraid cause the bass police icon of @fleabag was staring at me so seriously so I thought I really have done something greatly wrong ! 🙂

In addition to the above, I bought that neck cause: #1 it was cheaper than others #2 in love with Dusty Hill reversed necks on his tele (not that I compare myself to him, I am not blasphemous 🙂)

Thanks, that was one of the questions I had to myself that google could not answer; so I did a bit of study and I came to the conclusion that, unless you have a right hand modern c shape neck, there should not be any difference between right to left, (except the 2 you mentioned). Please correct me if I am wrong ... Also: Can I reverse a right handed nut to be used in the left handed neck?