Maurits

That '63 Hofner is a beautiful guitar!!! The rest looks pretty good as well, the Ibanez in particular. Looking cool man and welcome to the forum.

Heh, your Dremel asked for it, don't blame it on that poor pickup.

That is a seriously cool looking bass, the only letdown in my eyes is the headstock. Reminds me of my own Frankenbass.

-found on someones attic (always good)

-Late 60's/early 70's Japanese Condor P-bass

-(crudely) added J-bass pickup

-defretted

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y284/Maur...or/DSCF1315.jpg

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y284/Maur...or/DSCF1317.jpg

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BTW. Have you got standard wiring or something special in there?

That pinstripe looks really snazzy. Is the figure more visible in person?

You should have a look at the supply section on the main PG page.

Well hello there Dan, welcome.

Good to see you here.

I wouldn't worry about Garry not liking this thing, I don't see how he couldn't really.

Yeah, we were really lucky with those pieces. From all the pics I've seen on the internet and the other pieces they had at the woodplace, these werethe nicest looking. But with the Zebra this is going to be one heavy bass.

Really, allright thanks a lot.

Great looking bass by the way, one of the few singlecut basses I really like. Bueatiful top.

Robbie,

I see you're using Delano pickups, have you had any experience with using these passive in a fretless. I was wondering since I'm thinking of using them on a fretless build I've got going on right now.

Thanks a bunch,

Maurits.

You know, if you think classical guitar necks are too wide there are companies that build classical guitars with narrow necks. Semi-acoustic as well. You could look into some of those.

The measurements would be the same on both acoustic and electric mandolines, and it's just (although not as much as with guitars) personal preference as well.

If you can wait for a bit I could do some measurements on my mandoline if you want.

Those pickups look cool. You could even go Lennon on that thing with pickups from that site. With a Charlie Christian pup in the neck position.

Well after wanting this for years I've finally started my first real build. Together with a friend of mine we're building a fretless 4-string neckthru bass each.

Here's the specs:

-maple/purpleheart/maple

-zebra wings

-coromandel fretboard (with maple lines)

-chrome hardware

-oil finish

-2 J-bass pickups

We've decided to build a prototype to get some practise down using cheap wood, as this is our first build and don't want to ruin nice wood.

So anyway here are the all important pics.

Plan

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...an/DSCF1226.jpg

Fretboard (such lovely pieces of wood)

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne.../DSCF1301-1.jpg

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Zebra

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...od/DSCF1237.jpg

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Neck wood

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...od/DSCF1234.jpg

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Prototype

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...pe/DSCF1267.jpg

http://i112.photobucket.com/albums/n191/Ne...pe/DSCF1281.jpg

Hope I didn't break any photoposting rules, and if so I'll change them.

So what do you guys think?

Looking good. I'm a sucker for JR's. Any idea on what P90 you'll be putting in there? Any chance of you changing the color to cherry?

The main site has a bunch of painting tutorials so I'd look there first if I were you.

Thats looking great. I'll definatly be keeping an eye on this build is I'm actually working on a neckthru right now without use of massive tools. Our plan was to cut out the horns and then glue the wings, and to see someone on PG do the same gives a good feeling. Keep it up man.

Just a few question, for the pups caveties and the control area will you be using a columndrill or just a hand one? And how are you going to do the wiring 'tunnels' for thepickup wires?

Thanks.

If the jack isn't making contact properly just take it out and bend the bendie thing (what does one call that) of the input. Test fit it before putting it back in the guitar to save the hassle of having to take it out again. And if you were to replace it all together it would only cost you around a buck.

I'd say go for the repair, I wouldn't like to gig with a guitar with jack-issues like that one.

Funny, I was just explaining how Syd didn't die back in the seventies to someone last friday, and then this happens the same day. I for one think the Syd era Floyd put out some cracking tunes. Songs like Pow R. Toc H., Lucifer Sam and The Gnome are just great songs.

Another one off to the great gig in the sky, although Syd probably won't be joining in on any of the playing.

This looks like it'll be one great looking guitar, I loved it before all the added wear a lot and it doesn't look too shabby now either. Are you going to switch out the electrics or is it just going to be a cosmetic overhaule?

Keep up the great work. Your paint job has inspired me to do some sort of psychedelic paint job on my own squier, so a little question: what prep work did you do prior to painting the Hendrix-design on it?

Thanks

Maurits

Hi guys,

I've recently bought myself a 50-something year old archtop for cheap with the idea of me fixing some things which could use improving. It was reasonably playable if 1 cm. action is your thing, but overall sucked.

My plans were:

-reset the neck(already removed with dovetail intact (1-0 for me ))

-new tuners

-make/buy (most likely buy ) compensated bridge (original is basically a fretted piece of bridge-shaped wood)

-maybe new tailpiece

-straighten neck

-refret

All of these are for me quite do-able (fretting should be interesting) except for one. The only real problem is the straightening of the neck. The warp it has isn't too bad, and my idea was leaving the fretboard on and just plane it, radius it, reslot it and refret it wth the neck still in one piece. Maybe even try my hand at inlaying the thing.

So my question is: Is this do-able/a recomended way of doing this? If so, great. But if no, how should I go about doing this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Photo's are to follow if I take up this challange.

Thanks in advance, and please don't laugh at my incompetance,

Maurits.

This thing looks great. Way to go. This should turn out very good. Keep it up.

What was your first project?

Looks cool. I wonder what the EMG is going to sound like in a bass, it's a guitar pup rigt? The pup-cavity sticking out from under the EMG is a shame though.

Got any pics of the BirdsEye neck?

That looks very nice. The bottom half kinda has that Alembic vibe going on. Great choices for wood!

I'd definatly go with the MOP inlay.

Looking good so far.