Two 4 string basses: 34" Maple-Ash-Buckeye burl "Traditional" model, 32" Wenge-Padauk "Mio" model

[Matteo Marziali]

Shaping the 3 pieces Maple neck

 

With the frets on

 

A detail of the Ebony binding and of the fret side. I found a cheap fret tang nipper on Ebay, it works fine.

 

I routed the fretboard end

 

The back with some carving works

 

The neck glued

 

How does it look with the top

 

Carving the heel

 

The carving on the back is done

 

I glued the top and I'm carving it

 

Room for the Barts

 

 

Headstock with custom TR cover

 

First coat of oil varnish

Edited December 16, 2017 by Matteo Marziali

[Jabba_the_gut]

Vey nice!!

[Matteo Marziali]

Some pics of the "Traditional"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 16, 2017 by Matteo Marziali

[Matteo Marziali]

And a video with some samples:

Video

Edited December 16, 2017 by Matteo Marziali

[Subthumper]

Strong work there!! Respect!!

[scojack]

Stunner, impeccable attention to detail luv it:)

[Norris]

Beautiful!

[Myke]

Woah!

[roman_sub]

one of the most beautiful basses I've seen

[Andyjr1515]

Superb. No other word seems appropriate....

[Kriss Popovski]

Very nice. Bravo!
:-)

[Matteo Marziali]

Hello there!

It's been a long time since my last post, also the second bass is done and gone, more than one years ago.

Sorry for this delay, I think it's because of Instagram, I use to share pics there nowdays, you can follow me here

 

If you remeber my customer want me to remove a part of the Padauk binding, this is how it looks after the job

 

And this is the fretboard-end, with the Padauk heel block and the Wenge center part of the body

 

 

And here all the parts of the body, I used IKEA dowel pins to keep all these parts together

 

And this is a trick to create a room for batteries 

 

 

Gluing the body

 

My offset template, I use a router bushing

 

The routed body 

 

With the neck, front:

and back:

 

And this is the neck obviously

 

 

The body after routing and carving job

 

 

[Jimothey]

Both basses look awesome!!!!! I love the look of the neck on the second bass 

[TheGreek]

Love 'em both...great work.

[Matteo Marziali]

More pics

 

This the woods for control panel, I placed a Padauk layer under Rosewood

 

Here is the shaped control panel

 

Knobs layout, on the right a killerswitch

 

This is the jig to route the fretboard end

 

 

Then I placed a Wenge cover on the end of the neck

 

White plastic dots inside an aluminum pipe

 

Fretting job, I use a fret tang nipper found on Ebay, I needed to modify it to fit the fret. It works well for what it costs. And as you can see I use superglue in the slot.

 

On the right the self made jig for filing the fret ends

 

 

The headstock with magnetic TR cover made out of Rosewood with Padauk accent

 

Control panel on the body

 

The whole bass ready for the hardware

[blablas]

Beautiful work!!

[Jabba_the_gut]

I really like the look of both of these basses - stunning work. I like the contrast of the wenge and padauk so much I just went and bought some padauk for a future project!!

Keep posting the progress.

Cheers

Jez

[TheGreek]

Another great bass ....love the Paduak accents, would work really well with white Holly I think - I like the body shape but I'd get ready for the inevitable comparisons to the Carl Thompson scroll...

There's still room in my Xmas stocking if it's finished in time....

 

[Matteo Marziali]

 I like the body shape but I'd get ready for the inevitable comparisons to the Carl Thompson scroll...

This bass is TOTALLY inspired by Carl Thompson!.....

 

Finally a Video with some crappy samples 

 

And some pics

      

Edited December 23, 2017 by Matteo Marziali

[Norris]

Beautiful. I love the way the paduak neck laminates blend into the volute

[TheGreek]

I thought you'd been inspired by the Psilos build..

 

They share similar body lines...

Edited December 24, 2017 by TheGreek

[AlexDelores]

Wow both of these are stunning! Very inspirational, thanks

[BassTool]

Just caught up with this build diary, superb workmanship