Jimothey

I've just got into The Pretty Reckless

Sorry my mistake it's feckin gorgeous tho!! I would gladly have either!! Come to think of it I would love to have any ACG basses, shamefully I did borrow the shape of his Recurve SC for my neck through build but it's only because I can't afford for him to make me one!!......... 😁

I think that ACG take on a Jazz bass is awesome I much prefer it over the classic Jazz shape even the non-exotic are stunning................ 🤤 If you haven't guessed yet I'm very jealous!!

The strings were off one of my other basses and there was no fret buzz on it, its just a bit confusing................ 😕

I really need some advise please!! I've just changed the strings on my P bass from flats back to rounds and now I've noticed that I now get fret buzz on the 3rd fret if the D string but nowhere else I've checked for high/low frets with my rocker and they are fine no rocking at all, Could it be a difference in tension that has caused the neck to convex a tad??............ 😀

Here's my recently refinished P!, It was only a cheap bitsa copy but it plays lovely!! 😁

Great job!! Loving the dark Walnut!!........ 😀

I dont really know if it really counts as either but here's my offering?.........😀

I might try and get tickets for Llanfest this year headliners are The fratellis, The Pigeon Detectives, The Coral and Dodgy??

P/J wins for me too...........😀

I hoped that I could push this build on a bit but the truss rod I bought was faulty and the wrong fret wire was sent they sent brass instead of nickel so they both went back and I got a refund so I need to order them again from a different supplier I've been reading about flat fretboards I'm tempted to do that on this build I did read a thread on here from about 8 years ago on here and it had a mixture of pros and cons and I'm wondering if anybody has a new perspective on the subject?? If I remember correctly I think @eude was a flat fretboard convert............. 😀

@eude I don't normally like headless but this one (well they are all great but) is especially great !! What is the top wood on it??........... 😀

This build has stalled a bit due to a stupidly heavy workload at the mo but hopefully I'll be able to push it on a bit next week?? I still can't decide whether to do this as a 4 or a 5 string tho??........... 🤔

Oooohh errrr missus!! 😁

My vote would go for Honey if you wanted to have the back lighter than the top or a nice Meduim cherry........... 😀

Here's the wood for the body and top cap it's nothing special but I think once I've contrast grain filled the oak it will look nice......... 😀 I think I'll have to rout a cavity in the Sapele before I glue the cap on it as its a tad on the heavy side.............

That Rosewood looks great!! Are you leaving it natural or are you going to stain it?......... 😀

No worries mate I thought I'd ask, thanks anyway...... 😀

In my head I know what I'm going to do and I think it will work I will probably have to cut an extra wedge piece off my test neck so I won't have to flip over the headstock?!? but when I use my test neck hopefully it should throw up any pitfalls or unexpected problems?? If @Andyjr1515 or anyone else any advice please feel free to comment!....... 😀

See I told you its easier than you think! Hopefully when I do mine it comes off as easily??....... 😀

I've been visiting family back down in Colchester this week and staying at my parents so I thought I'd take advantage of my old table saw and thicknesser so I started a project that I've been thinking about for a while I'm doing it Sapele backed and 6mm Oak top cap with a matching Oak headstock cap (I'll probably do a ebony-esque demarcation line) which has all been thicknessed now ready to glue up when I get back to work next week I'm going to try and do something a bit out of the ordinary and convert a flat headstocked neck into an angled headstock this is the neck I'm going to use I've got a old guitar neck that I'm going to try it out on first I think it will involve de-gluing the fretboard removing the truss rod cutting and scarf jointing the headstock back on to the neck?? Sounds simple when I say it like that!! 😳 I'm going to use a Warwick 2 piece bridge and tuners and a pair of big pole MM style pickups

Just a quick pic with the temporary pickguard......... 😀

@SpondonBassed Almost right! I tried finding a song video called 'Draw it on with a sharpie!!' to reply with but bizarrely I couldn't find anything.......... 😀

Binding take 2........... The little mark at the start of the lower horn has be rectified now............... 😀

That's a really good point if you want to do it as a business then till your an established builder with good brand exposure you probably won't make a lot of money, but if your doing it just for the love of building and aren't really bothered in how much profit you make then your laughing really anything you get above cost price is a bonus As a side business from my bespoke furniture business I started doing French Polishing and got a few jobs but working out how much to charge was a complete nightmare as most of the people wouldn't pay the exuberant price I needed to charge to make any kind of a reasonable profit! On one job it worked out I earned less than 50p and hour because of the time it takes to do it properly so needless to say because it was a business I knocked it on the head........ 😀