Hi! I'm starting my first build from scratch. It's going to be a 5 string fretless and here's the woods I'm using.
In the background there's african mahogany and bubinga and in the front wenge and castello.
Some specs:
scale: 35"
body: mahogany back / bubinga top
neck: wenge
fingerboard: castello
pickup: hopefully home-made
bridge: hopefully home-made too (from wenge)
The look I'm going for is something like this. The pic is just a quick mock-up so everything is just thrown in to show how it looks like.
I'm going to dye the castello fretboard black and probably do a faux binding and the wave-inlay. And because the bubinga and mahogany are pretty much the same color I thought I'd dye the bubinga red to make it stand out better. Probably a faux binding in the joint also.
So, what do you think?
Cheers, Timi