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I'll call this one the "Mtawarira" (aka the beast).

Jayda S6f:

- It's a 6 string fretless semi-hollow bass

- Panga-panga neck with maple stringers

- Zebrano front and back with maple core

- Partial fretlines

- Aguilar preamp

- Hipshot hardware

My first effort at winding my own pickups:

I made 2 stacked humbuckers for this project (just used an electric drill, possibly the hardest thing I've ever done )

Piezo pickups mounted in the body with a homemade buffer circuit.

Still waiting on some magnets to hold the cover on at the back, so for now tape will have to do. Trying to make the cover as invisible as possible.

More pics:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=5083...mp;l=6e4b9415ac

If I find time (and somehow learn how to play a 6 string fretless) I'll upload some sound clips

This is my second build, although my first proper guitar build. My first being an ashbory bass (google g1_ashbory).

She goes by the name of the Jayda LS-4 (until I can think of a better name)

Maple-Purpleheart-Maple neck

Ash body wings with walnut on top and bubinga at the back

Rosewood fb with maple binding and Gold MOP Jayda logo on 12th fret

Custom african blackwood and maple bridge *

EMG 35P4 pup

Schaller semi-covered pegs

Gold fretwire

African blackwood knobs (not in the pics)

Satin finish

* The bridge in the pic needs to be replaced/remade. An unfortunate incident meant that it got damaged but I'm unsure when I'll have time to fix it.

More pics

Build thread

Almost there:

Just need to:

- level / crown frets

- sand and finish

- wire it up

The upper horn is quite close to the neck...but the horn doesn't get in the way all that much, especially seeing as my thumb stays mainly at the back of the neck.

It was a bit of a pain to sand there.

I'm going for the p-bass sound: EMG 35P4

Update:

- inlayed

- fretted

- pup installed

Just need to do a few last jobs, fix up some mistakes and then I'm on to sanding and finishing...

Tuners fitted (unfortunately there was a mishap with the D-tuner, I guess I'll have to use some filler / glue and saw dust)

General progress shot:

Havn't gotten much done recently because I had to work on my thesis

A little work done on the headstock:

Looking really sweet...

Keen to see how this one turns out! :-)

Keep the pics comming!!

Edit: I guess if I read past page 1 I would see how it turned out

Nice work!

Update:

-fretboard glued

- neck carved

Good fun carving the neck

Thanks for the encouragement! :-)

It was originally inspired by Carl Thompson's work, but evolved a little through the design phase

Edit: here are a few more pics if your interested:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=1103...mp;id=528485680

And the fretboard which over the past couple of days has been bound with maple, tapered, radiused, and fret slots cut.

And that's it to date. More progress to come over the following weeks... :-)

The body after some body contouring.

This is a custom bridge I'm working on. Not in these pics the brass saddles that have since been embedded in the purpleheart that the strings will actually sit on

Mock up of the bass including a first attempt at a custom bridge, that one has since been replaced with a better attempt

Hello, I'm new to the forum.

This is my second build (well sort of). My first build has an ashbory bass:

http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~jdavies/ashbory/

but this is my first proper guitar build.

34" scale

24 fret

4 string

neck-through

maple-purpleheart-maple neck

ash body capped with walnut and backed with bubinga