@juli0r I have a timber collection, and I dont mean wee samples this picture shows part of it, some pieces are 3m 10’ long 75mm 3" thick 1.2m 4’ wide and some is over 800yrs old.
I could make bass bodies for ten years and not use it up.
The thing is you want mature timber which you need to buy from a specialist and they start about £35 or euro’s $30 but can go into the hundreds.
To me a body should be used from wood that is stable and that means aged, yes you can have kiln dried wood and that works fine but will never match aged timber.
you might be best to have a trip to Scotland and build one from scratch with all the proper machines. Then you would know what the minimum requirements would be.
This Covid aint going to last forever.
Jamie
Like… was this an invitation? I read an invitation there but I don’t wanna impose. Because I would seriously consider planning my next vacation as one to Scotland then…
Juli we have the space I can assure you. Yes, it’s an invitation. The workshops are in the the accommodation wing of the building. Great for working at any hour. @juli0r
Jamie
Was discussing Warmoths in another thread and wanted to drop this here to hopefully get some P-Bass/Strat fans going on a new project. Hmm, do we have any of those around here?
@howard now that would be an interesting body to make in clamshell construction to get the weight down. It looks like an ash body, that would be heavy.
Jamie
@Korrigan you have the look, nice. Are you using the mandolin on the build? Real finger slicer looking forward to seeing the progress
I for one am very interested all things string
Jamie
@kwt7667: The pickup is attached to the slide rule… who needs multiple pickups and a selector switch when you can just slide the pickup where you want it?
@DaveT: I just build as a hobby right now. If I ever win the lotto I’ll build full time but until then I have to keep doing “real” work to pay the bills. I have been talked into selling a few but I consider myself an artist so I price my work astronomically high… which means I get to keep most of my instruments. lol
There is some absolutely spectacular project bass work in this thread. I’m so impressed.
I wanted a headless, so I took the cheapest way out and turned a BTB400QM (Quilted Maple) into a BTB400NH (No Head)
It has a current EQ that services pretty much the entire Ibanez range and a completely shielded internal cavity, joining tunnels and all. It’s totally silent in my computer room, which impresses me greatly as I only have two other basses can do that.
As it turned out, it is a 35 inch bass, but is only 1.5 inches longer than my Ibanez Mikro!
looking forward to seeing the progress
