Gustav Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 We made this one for a customer, he only insisted on five strings and everything else was up to us. This one is made from wenge, oak, padouk, ebony and maple. Quite a lot of different species but they went together just fine. The body is made from oak and wenge in shape of our spring bass model while the head was custom. Neck is made from padouk and maple strips while the fretboard is made from hard ebony with two veneer layers of maple and wenge. We went for a clean look so no engravings and markings on the fingerboard this time, just a Lignum logo laser burned on to the body. Back electronics and battery covers are also made from wenge wood. harware we used for this build is EMG JX set, Schaller BM Light machine heads, Schaller 3D-5 bridge, Schaller S-locks, Daddario EXL 165-5 strings. I hope you like this this project! Please ask any question in the comments. =D Out website: www.lignum-art.com P.S. I would be more than happy if you decided to check how it was made on our YouTube channel: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Higham Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 16 minutes ago, Gustav said: This one is made from wenge, oak, padouk, ebony and maple. Wenge, oak, padouk, ebony and maple! ! ! How much does it weigh? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 Very nice! I'm also interested in the weight....that is definitely a lot of woods on the super-heavy end of the spectrum. To put that into some sort of perspective, Maple is the lightest wood of any of those! I love that you've incorporated Oak though. It's a criminally-underused wood for instruments. Heavy, but has a character of its own to impart. Plus, not that difficult to find domestically. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Higham Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 27 minutes ago, Prostheta said: I love that you've incorporated Oak though. It's a criminally-underused wood for instruments. True. It also makes very nice acoustic instruments. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted December 6, 2021 Report Share Posted December 6, 2021 I don't want to derail this thread too much, however I'm guessing that your forays into acoustics has intersected with the use of Oak? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustav Posted December 15, 2021 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2021 Hey guys, Just wanted to say that we did all that we could to keep the instrument nice and light. Body is just 38 mm thick, with quite large pocket for electronics (easily fits 5, even 6 potentiometers), also, if you would compare body shape and size with jazz bass, you would see that even dough strap locks are on the same position, the body is much much slimmer. Since you mentioned maple as light species, let me say that our maple models are just 3.4 kg, and this one turned out at 4.2 kg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prostheta Posted December 15, 2021 Report Share Posted December 15, 2021 Maple is only light by comparison to the other woods; normally Maple is considered as being one of the heaviest with the other woods (which are heavier) tending to be smaller components like fingerboards, laminates, etc. Still! Very very cool and a spectacular bass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andyjr1515 Posted December 15, 2021 Report Share Posted December 15, 2021 I love that bass. @Gustav. Beautiful job...great combination of colours too. And yes - another fan of oak here. The lightest double-humbucker electric guitar build I did (5.25lbs) has an oak back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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