Jalien21 Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 so, i started a bass a week or two ago because i've never made a bass and i'd really like to have one. it's going to be a through-neck with a whole bunch of woods and i'll probably shape it sort of like the alembic omega (though, to be honest, i still haven't finalized my body shape.) i bought the wood from rockler and most of the parts from ebay. still need pickups, but i'm thinking about the EMG select hybrid set from stewmac. unless an EMG HZ goes up on ebay for not too much money. or if people have any suggestions for pickups, this is probably going to be a jam band sort of instrument. fretboard is Neck: maple/walnut veneer/maple veneer/purple heart/maple veneer/ipe/maple veneer/purple heart/maple veneer/walnut veneer/maple spread neck Body: cocobolo/maple veneer/purple heart/maple/walnut veneer/mahogany pre-gluing, wrong order (but they're pretty woods!) gluing aanyway. so far, i've glued up the neck and body, and i just planed the neck down flat. next i need to cut the neck profile, i guess. then i'll attach the body and start shaping stuff? or maybe i'll shape the body some first? we'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnRossitter Posted December 6, 2006 Report Share Posted December 6, 2006 (edited) Looks great man. What do you plan for the body shape? Scratch that...I missed it in your previous post Edited December 6, 2006 by JohnRossitter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wwwdotcomdotnet Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 nice james, that neck came out so nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottyd Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 Cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
low end fuzz Posted December 7, 2006 Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 that neck looks amazing; but beware of multiple venneers in the neck, especially side by side; it dosent look like a 'firstbuild' (far from it); but with the rounding shape of the neck, those glue lines show theyre ugly head more than anywhere and are impossible to fill when the next layer is another veneer, possibly with the same problem; but i am exited to see this bad boy; keep this post alive Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted December 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2006 i'm not terribly worried about the veneers and glue lines. i've made two other guitars, and one of them had a neck that had a bunch of veneers and stuff. i find that as long as you have darker woods in there, the glue lines just sort of blend in with them. plus, i used an absurd number of clamps on this. i went into my school's wood shop and used pretty much every clamp they had. i just kept on adding them wherever i could until there wasn't really any more space to put clamps. anyway. we'll see. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
low end fuzz Posted December 8, 2006 Report Share Posted December 8, 2006 please share; i love seeing peoples work who arent afraid of a lil extra glueing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrogeoman Posted December 9, 2006 Report Share Posted December 9, 2006 ...... still need pickups, but i'm thinking about the EMG select hybrid set from stewmac. unless an EMG HZ goes up on ebay for not too much money. or if people have any suggestions for pickups, this is probably going to be a jam band sort of instrument.. Looking good man. I would stay away from the EMG Select pups. I own a korean made Spector NS-4a that came with the Selects. I was never happy with the tone. Muddy is the best description I can give them. I replaced the Selects with the EMG HZ's P/J combination and it made all the difference in the world. Crisp defined tone that you can hear through two overdriven guitars. With the time and effort you are investing in your bass, it will be well worth to work on saving the extra $$ and go with the REAL EMGs. Good luck and keep up the progress. Greg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted December 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2006 i did some more work the other day. got the neck blank side-ways profiled, cut the scarf joint, and planed the body sides down about a quarter of an inch. everything worked out really, and i'm totally pumped. i'll post pictures when i get back to my room this evening. does anyone know where i should go to get some nice bass pickups? i really don't know anything about bass pickups. i'm willing to drop maybe 75 bucks on them. or so. maybe more if i need to. i've been watching ebay, but i don't really know what to be looking for, even. any suggestions? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cerb Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 You wont get any extremely nice pickups for $75 bucks. I'm about to drop a couple hundred on some Nordstand pups. Unless you find some on ebay, about the best you will do is $60 per. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hydrogeoman Posted December 15, 2006 Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 does anyone know where i should go to get some nice bass pickups? i really don't know anything about bass pickups. i'm willing to drop maybe 75 bucks on them. or so. maybe more if i need to. i've been watching ebay, but i don't really know what to be looking for, even. any suggestions? Here are a couple of options. I have a couple of basses with the P style dimarzio pups and they sound great. I really think the dimarzio bass pups are under rated. J/J P/J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted December 15, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2006 the p/j dimarzio set seems pretty do-able. does anybody else have any thoughts on it? pictures! body layout side profile planed body side i havent done any sanding yet, so there are still some burn marks from the table saw and stuff. but you get the idea Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goat Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 the p/j dimarzio set seems pretty do-able. does anybody else have any thoughts on it? I`m working on a Walnut bass with a Bartolini MM42CBJD3 Pickup It`s a MusicMan style Humbucker with a pre-amp.you might like that route. I have an OLP with the MM style humbucker and it gets good sounds.Also one pickup,with that nice wood you have,there`s that much less area of the beautiful wood covered . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted December 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 how do 3 or four coil pickups work? i understand how humbuckers work, but 3 coils? is it like, 3 coils is just a single and a hummer, while four coils is just two buckers in a box? or, woah, do the humbuckers each cancel with eachother? so it's like a super-humbucker? that's sort of neat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goat Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 how do 3 or four coil pickups work? i understand how humbuckers work, but 3 coils? is it like, 3 coils is just a single and a hummer, while four coils is just two buckers in a box? or, woah, do the humbuckers each cancel with eachother? so it's like a super-humbucker? that's sort of neat Here is a link to show you how they work. http://www.thebassplace.com/cgi-bin/shoppe...y=BART-MM42CBJD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PTU 7's. Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 Nice woods, i like the sandwich style guitars/bass. How many did you paid for the woods? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
De Trepagny Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 Di-marzio j-style are great low buck p-u. They sound fat with growl and nice clear high. The j-set are stacked so they sound more like a P than a J p-u. Good for vintage sound. Nice wood choice! Philippe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted December 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 ohhkay. so a quad coil pickup is two humbuckers side-by side, so each pair of coils is under two of the strings. rad. the wood was about 150 dollars all together. i bought it all on rockler, which worked out well. i'm not sure a vintage sound is what i'm after. i want something funky fresh that i can play rush-style counter melodies with. and phish. should i look into the Bartolini/musicman sort of stuff more? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chewer71 Posted December 16, 2006 Report Share Posted December 16, 2006 does anyone know where i should go to get some nice bass pickups? i really don't know anything about bass pickups. i'm willing to drop maybe 75 bucks on them. or so. maybe more if i need to. i've been watching ebay, but i don't really know what to be looking for, even. any suggestions? Here are a couple of options. I have a couple of basses with the P style dimarzio pups and they sound great. I really think the dimarzio bass pups are under rated. J/J P/J i agree about the dimarzios i put a pair in a fretless (mexi) j bass and they sound AWESOME. total classic j bass growl. can't speak on the p pickups (yet...) but i would imagine they're great too. i think i scored my model j's on ebay for like $45-50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted January 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 so, i scored a pair of EMG-HZ pickups for 50 bucks on ebay the other day. i got a 40HZ for the bridge position and a SJHZ for the neck. i think they'll work out. and i cut my body the other day. i'm pretty excited with how it came out: http://www.rpi.edu/~miglij2/Photo%20109.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~miglij2/Photo%20110.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~miglij2/Photo%20111.jpg http://www.rpi.edu/~miglij2/Photo%20112.jpg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
travismoore Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 (edited) Wow that looks awsome Nice work! Edited January 3, 2007 by travismoore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goat Posted January 3, 2007 Report Share Posted January 3, 2007 Beautiful work! Is that a Lefty??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted January 4, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2007 not a lefty, i just took the pictures with my computer's isight camera which mirrors them for some reason... i'm really excited. i cant do a whole lot more before i get back to school (two weeks!!!) but i can order the last parts i need Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eljib Posted January 5, 2007 Report Share Posted January 5, 2007 That's really impressive. Nice work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jalien21 Posted April 3, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2007 so, i haven't updated here in a while but i'm pretty much done. i hand buffed for about an hour tonight and it's looking really shiny. still, i think i'd like to see what a buffing wheel could do to it. i'll try that tomorrow and probably string it up. but for now, because i'm super excited: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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