Beedster

Ah man, 15 mins............. 👍

I suspect that he would sound as good whether he's playing a '62 Fender or an Encore, he is great proof of the 'all in the fingers' model 👍

Nice advice, thanks mate 👍

Thanks mate, interesting 👍

Tiger stripe

i had a tiger stripe ebony neck by Warmoth, I’ll dig out some pics. Same feel as normal ebony but very different aesthetic 👍

Anyway, back to the question! Anyone used a spindle sander to fo this?

Yes, and so many more 👍

Took me a long time to get into flats, and even longer into flats on a Jazz, in part because many years ago a guy in a music shop told me "flatwound string sound dead". OK, they're kinda definitive on a Precision and accepted as such, in so many respects they're even more so on a Jazz. Wanna hit some retro heaven? Flats, back PUP on full, front PUP rolled off a little bit, and a pic through an all-tube head. Sorted 👍

And the body/PUPs and neck are a pretty formidable combo, very powerful and focussed, but the full Fender headstock and gaps at the pocket bug the hell out of me 🤔

The cover of Sunburst Finish had quite an effect on my 11-year old self at the time

Yep, I have half of it, but I've tried a lot of Tele-headstocked necks and not got on with any of them, mostly too deep. I now have a standard headstock maple/maple neck that sings on the body in question, hence the thread. Body is below, it's going to be stripped back to natural and then blonded. Neck heel will be reshaped to fit the pocket. It's going to be a bloody lovely bass 👍

Not Tazie 🤔

Lovely isn't it mate 👍

And another

But here's a clue......

Or a Beedster Fendercaster, hard to say at this point

It's going to be a Fender Beedstercaster 👍

I'm keeping my own counsel on shape to ensure that when the bass emerges on the forum I can say "this is the 100% shape I was aiming for...."

And why not......?

Norman meets Jaco

Typo, damn, will correct

There's some serious mojo around that whole era of musicians, those that emerged in the 70's but never made it to stardom in TOTP terms - that means that you've always been able to have a pint with them (even Lemmy bought me a pint once, and he probably did meet the TOTP criteria as well). The person I most regret not meeting was Wilko, whose performance of Roxette on OGWT in the early '70s is still for me the definitive rock and roll moment (the "electric mouse on rails" in a band that felt like they had emerged from a "special area of the military" as the presenter had it). These are the guys that played it 'cos they love playing and still play it 'cos they love playing. And a big part of that is the genuine affection and respect they have for the people who come to the gigs. If @ambient isn't going, I'm heading up and having his ticket