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Doug Wilkes Jazz fretless...

flame maple body front, swamp ash back ( heavy)

rock maple neck with indian ebony board.

slim 62 jazz neck, truss rod adjust at body end so the slim neck at the nut is not is not weak'nd by having a truss rod hole taking away half the wood there.

schaller tuners from "dyerseve" on here ( cheers chris )

john east pre

warwick Mec gold active pups, from a thumb bass

 

loads of sustain, you could go on holliday come back and it will still be going 🙂

 

collected yesterday

 

Doug Wilkes site..

http://wilkesguitars.co.uk/

 

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On 30/08/2022 at 21:50, TheGreek said:

I've had a few fretless basses over the years haven't really got on with any of them,  till I got this Yamaha TRB 5IIF. Gorgeous tones,  lovely neck  and so, so playable. 

Get one!!

 

 

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The first fretless I ever played. In amber. It was totally awesome. I had a fretted one later, and a fretless older one a few years after that. Brilliantly built basses.

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On 03/09/2022 at 19:59, aguacollas said:

I’ve been playing Warwick basses for 15 years, very curious about those pickups on a jazzbass position with the East preamp. And fretless. Wow. 

not bad at all really, not brill, iv had better sounds, and its nothing to do with the bass as a jazz bass, more to do with a personel pref and more to do with the position of the pickups.

i like a back pick up to have a good toney honk to it, to use by its self or mix in a bit of neck pickup to fatten it out a bit, so i wished i had asked for the bridge pickup to be further back, infact i wish both pickups were further back, like a thumb bass, thats where the tone is, and also the john east pre i never really liked the glassy hi's, there is not really a note there, more a sort of trebbly click, great for scooped slap sound, but thats about its use, so i got on to john and he gave me some advice on taking the trebble down an octave so it has more inpact on the note.

so the next stage will be..

1, add another mec pickup between the bridge and the existing pickup, and have it wired with a 3way switch that gives you either of the two bridge pickups or both as a humbucker.

2, add another 2 way switch to take down the trebble an octive one way, and the other to keep the original hi as made.

 

so not my perfect bass, but it will be,

as a jazz fretless though its prob everything anyone else would love.

each to their own and all that.

 

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1 hour ago, Frank Blank said:

 

They are here... I think.

This is an Alpher Mako, with a 1 piece sapele body, ask neck & Macassar ebony fingerboard.

 

They have burned the body to give it the sunburst effect.

 

All hardware is hipshot & it has a Nordstrand dual soap bar pick up, with a hidden 3 way selector switch for single coil or both coils.

 

Chris & Al make some of the best instrument in the world in my opinion. I also have another fretted 4 string & a guitar.  They are also both awesome guys.

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1 minute ago, AndyTravis said:

Love the Italian craftsmanship here - the position dots aren’t even in line 🫣😂

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As any decent Italian will tell you Andy, alignment in such matters is highly overrated 👍

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Just now, Beedster said:

 

As any decent Italian will tell you Andy, alignment in such matters is highly overrated 👍

Aye. It’s like an Alfa Romeo…or Maserati…every afternoon is a Friday afternoon 😆

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My  go-to ‘bitsa’ 2 piece ash Jazz body, maple neck with ebanol fingerboard with an extra MM pickup just so I don’t have to lug 2 basses around. Strung with Rotosound Nexus which probably need replacing sometime soon!!

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Here's my lockdown bass. Dragonfly Fat Sound that i purchased from Bass Japan Direct, these are the stock photos.

I did get some Nordstrand pickups installed, but can't say i really noticed much difference in tone to what was already in there. It's a Koa top on alder body with a rosewood f/b i think, which has an expoxy type finish.

I'm very happy with it, and don't have much fretless GAS now. However, i would like to get my hands on a Fbass BNF at some point, or a Fender Victor Bailey j.

 

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