Er.
Well.
This never quite got out of the starting blocks due to various reasons. This was a blessing though, because last year Mike shared some photos of a bass he’d built for a guy in Japan and I got a bit over excited about how lovely it was. So on Mike’s suggestion we paused this idea and switched. I popped over to Essex today to catch up with him and finalise “my” version of that spec. It’s going to be tasty:
Zoot Funkmeister 5 string, 32” scale
(slimmed down standard Funkmeister 5 body to suit)
3-piece maple neck with black stringers, stolen unashamedly by me from @GreeneKing’s recent Zoot
Maple fingerboard with dots along the top side (rather than middle of the fingerboard)
Aguilar AG 5P 60CL pickup
Passive, volume/tone plus series/parallel switch
Chrome hardware
Badass bridge from Mike’s stock, cut for ~17.5mm ish string spacing
Hipshot ultralite tuners
High gloss “Arctic White” finish on body and headstock front
Tort scratchplate