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Shuker PJ Bass (III) fretless


andydye
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Our live set is diversifying and a fretless is becoming very useful, tried it with my fretless ray but the sound is just too different from my Shuker Nr1 so I'm scoping out a fretless PJ to complement my Nr1 & Nr2 Shuker P basses...then I really am done...I think...

Here's the top wood, Burr Elm rescued from the great Sheffield tree cull by a friend of Jons'
[url=https://flic.kr/p/Rfu4SJ][/url]

The body will be swamp ash again to keep the core sound similar to my fretted P basses.
Seymour Duncan SPB-1 as per my other basses but adding an SJB-1b at the bridge so I can mix it in occasionally for that extra mid fretlessy-ness.
Ebony fingerboard cos Jon has found a lovely piece of dark Ebony.

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  • 4 weeks later...

[quote name='TheGreek' timestamp='1484754189' post='3218124']
Really does look like (a woman's) body.
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Now, now, lets not get personal. I wonder what you'd look like when you're 300 years old and sliced up :P

Isn't the one on the left male and the one on the right female?

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[quote name='Grangur' timestamp='1487101243' post='3237159']

Now, now, lets not get personal. I wonder what you'd look like when you're 300 years old and sliced up :P

Isn't the one on the left male and the one on the right female?
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Biology not a strong point Rich? It's all in the hips...

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a wee update :)

Nice piece of Swamp Ash for the body...this'll be the view of the back
[url=https://flic.kr/p/R1j78C][/url]

...all glued up
[url=https://flic.kr/p/ShZCNV][/url]

Yes my wife is incredibly loving and patient, she's amazing!! I believe there's a canonisation petition somewhere online :D

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Been quiet for a wee while on this as Jon has had a busy LGBS and then had some guys in on a course doing builds but here's a bit of progress, body all together and the top carve/shape/bend has been done. Neck is well underway, fingerboard is on, side markers fret ticks are in...

Lovely :gas:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/SD2gi1][/url]

[url=https://flic.kr/p/RWrm1u][/url]

[url=https://flic.kr/p/RWrkYL][/url]

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