Semi Hollow Bass (and another two...)

[TheGreek]

On 4/9/2018 at 13:58, Pea Turgh said:

Seeing in the flesh was immense. The lines & curves - even my wife wanted one, and she doesn’t even play!

I'd encourage her to think about buying this...

[Jabba_the_gut]

23 hours ago, Lee-Man said:

Played this at the Midlands Bass Bash this past weekend. I was blown away, its a really lovely instrument. 

Cheers Lee . I’m really pleased at how nice this sounded - I will be building another one!!

[MoonBassAlpha]

Looks lovely. Could we have a picture of the whole thing please?

[Jabba_the_gut]

On 11/05/2018 at 17:44, MoonBassAlpha said:

Looks lovely. Could we have a picture of the whole thing please?

Will do. I'll try and post some tomorrow.

Cheers for all the comments - much appreciated!!

[Jabba_the_gut]

On ‎11‎/‎05‎/‎2018 at 17:44, MoonBassAlpha said:

Looks lovely. Could we have a picture of the whole thing please?

And some more piccies in the garden sun! 

I replaced the original string retainer bar as I got a comment that the Hipshot one on the ash bass I made looked much better. I quite agree!

[TheGreek]

I like it very much...I'm sure that there'll be lots more compliments.

[SpondonBassed]

Thanks.

Even though I've seen it and been blown away by the feel and look of it, I am even more in awe of it under good natural light.  Artificial lighting doesn't do it full justice.

Edited May 13, 2018 by SpondonBassed

[Jimothey]

Stunning!!! What more can you say!?!  

[Andyjr1515]

Beautiful.

[Jabba_the_gut]

Cheers for the positive comments - very much appreciated!

I'm planning two more of these in the near future. The first will be the same as this one but fretted, the second will be maple bodied with a walnut top and fretless. I'll stick build diaries up for these once I get started!

Cheers again

Jez

[Jabba_the_gut]

Here's the first pile of wood for the next one of these.....

And the second pile of wood!

[Andyjr1515]

That has all the signs of being 'on a roll', Jez.  Your output is higher than mine and yet you work hard for a living! 

Presumably your family are locked in the attic?  I find that doing that speeds up builds no end  

[Jimothey]

Can’t wait to see these take shape they are stunning basses 

[scrumpymike]

Jabba, this one is absolutely right up my street!

[Jabba_the_gut]

These are moving on okay - I'll post some proper details later. At the moment, there are two bodies and lots of holes...

And a neck for the spalted top one...

[zvirus]

Lovely! Any sound samples?  I`d probably order one for sure! 

Cheers

Tomas

[Jabba_the_gut]

Hi Tomas. Cheers for the comments.

Unfortunately, I don't have any sound samples despite having the opportunity to get some. I took this bass to the SW Bass Bash where it suited someone who tried it and wanted to by it. I did hold onto it for long enough though to take it to the Midlands Bass Bash where Lee-Man played it and I wish I had recorded it as he made it sound so nice!!

When I complete these I won't make the same mistake again and will get sound samples made!!

 

[Jabba_the_gut]

Had a chance to do a bit more routing!! After my previous router failing, today routing decided to have a go at me by disintegrating a bearing on the template cutter I was using. Luckily I was cutting the hollowed out section of this bass so no real damage done but it did take a thin strip off the template before I noticed. First job was to repair the template - relatively easy, just needed some veneer supergluing on and trimming back to the original line.

The remains of a template bearing - all the ball bearings disappeared along with the other retainer!!

I found a new bearing the same diameter so carried on.

I've also cut the scroll hole on the top.

Time to start gluing this together and routing the chambers on the other body.

[Andyjr1515]

Neat routing, b******d bearing or not!

[SpondonBassed]

11 hours ago, Jabba_the_gut said:

I've also cut the scroll hole on the top.

Also known as a Norrisole.

[zvirus]

12 hours ago, Jabba_the_gut said:

Hi Tomas. Cheers for the comments.

Unfortunately, I don't have any sound samples despite having the opportunity to get some. I took this bass to the SW Bass Bash where it suited someone who tried it and wanted to by it. I did hold onto it for long enough though to take it to the Midlands Bass Bash where Lee-Man played it and I wish I had recorded it as he made it sound so nice!!

When I complete these I won't make the same mistake again and will get sound samples made!!

 

Thank You! You really should get patented that body shape - it`s perfect every way and won't be surprised if this design will be stolen from You! and forget to mention headstock shape should be patented too!!!

Edited July 8, 2018 by zvirus

[TheGreek]

Optical illusion...I thought the lighter timber was sitting proud (convex) rather than removed (concave).

[SpondonBassed]

13 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Optical illusion...I thought the lighter timber was sitting proud (convex) rather than removed (concave).

So did I.  I was a little disappointed when I realised it wasn't.

[Jabba_the_gut]

13 minutes ago, TheGreek said:

Optical illusion...I thought the lighter timber was sitting proud (convex) rather than removed (concave).

 

It does look like that, doesn't it?!!

[Jabba_the_gut]

Here's where I'm currently at with these - two bodies glued up and roughly cut out. Quite noticeable weight difference between these; the maple/walnut one is 1.5kg and the Sapele/spalted beech one is 2.0kg.