My first Build Porn

[rennie234]

Hey All.

Newbie to the forum.

Been looking at someof the custom basses on here so decided to show my first build.

All comments welcome .... Enjoy!

The Body - Laminated Mahogany & Oak

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The Fret Board - Rosewood

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Fender Jazz 5 pups & 5 string bridge

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Rough idea of what it's going to look like

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Neck Blank & Body

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The Neck carving begins

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Coming togehter

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Thats all I've got for the build but I will get more pics on the next build!

Anyway heres the finished product

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Hope you al like!

[Rumple]

Nice first build.

Does the laminated body make the bass quite heavy?

How have you wired up your pick-ups? Volume plus Tone and a pick-up selector switch?

[rennie234]

[quote name='Rumple' post='1368428' date='Sep 10 2011, 11:45 AM']Nice first build.

Does the laminated body make the bass quite heavy?

How have you wired up your pick-ups? Volume plus Tone and a pick-up selector switch?[/quote]



No the lminated body is no heavier than if it was all mahogany.

and I messed up abit on the wiring which as im sure you know std. Jazz has 3 pots ...... thats was the plan.

but due to where i had located the jack socket, when the jack was inserted it was touching the back of the 3rd pot.

The hole was already drilled so I had to do something with it so i was going to put a 3 way switch in ON-ON-ON but couldn't get my hands on 1 so its just an on-off switch at the min.

So the set up is 1 Volume - 1 Blend pot (also acts as a tone pot if you like, blending the sound form each pup) - 1 on-off switch.

[Rumple]

Have you tried the smaller pots? I have just picked up some mini CTS one's from Allparts they may work.

[rennie234]

No I havn't mate, i could try them but im quite happy with it as it is to be honest its serverd me well over the the 9 months of gigging with it.


Thanks for the tip though

[Andyjr1515]

This looks the business - lovely job!