I love the original Tele/P Bass style. That design holds the mojo but bumps the style up a notch.Finished this one last week, Malizia Bakersfield Bass.
-Okoume Body
-One piece hard maple neck with maple bindings, 34", 9.5" radius, 20 frets
- DS Pickups Malizia P51H, hum cancelling split coil pickup, disguised as a single coil vintage P style pickup
-Schaller tuners
-Gotoh bridge
-N.O.S.circa 60's japanes PIO caps
-Handmade home nickel plated bridge & pickup covers, neck & jack plate
-nitrocellulose laqcuer finish, reliced.
Hope you like it!
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Solo kit?So, the keyboardist in the band calls me and says, if I get a 335 Kit will you build it for me?
I said sure …
here it is…
this should be fun
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Yessir Good eye!Is that a strap… ? I like!!!
Very Nice! That fretboard is killer!Sorry for the rapid fire posts here...got the acoustic finished up. I still need to make a truss rod cover, I think I will 3D print one. Anyways, a couple pics:
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It sounds really good! Very happy with my first effort. The soundboard is a cedar board from an old gate my dad and I built. Walnut back and sides, sapele neck with a walnut veneer. Bocote fretboard, bridge, and rosette inlay.
The shape is a little funky because I glued the top and back on outside the mold. Don't want to do that on the next one...it looks OK but I like more curve in the waist and shoulders that the dreadnought shape offers.
Very Nice! That fretboard is killer!
delicious lookingThis guys been sitting far too long, tracking down the right neck has been hard, i cant build necks yet (confidently). I may routh that tele pickup cavity for a p90 though, somethings asking me to. So far its come up beautifully, will do a little more work with the rasp to get some nice contours for comfort, would love a flame maple neck with rosewood fretboard but in Oz thays getting fooking hard to find.
Plan to Put my Zhangbucker Obucker with large hex screws in the bridge and a mojotone quiet p90, or perhaps ill order a p90 off jonsey for this one, its a top Notch piece of alder with some great figuring on the flame maple top, bookmatched it well i think.
Also considering a PRS style tremolo, i love those bridges View attachment 580996
i agree 100 pcVery Nice! That fretboard is killer!
Seriously, one of the coolest fretboards that I have ever seen, love it (all of it, not just the fretboard)!Sorry for the rapid fire posts here...got the acoustic finished up. I still need to make a truss rod cover, I think I will 3D print one. Anyways, a couple pics:
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It sounds really good! Very happy with my first effort. The soundboard is a cedar board from an old gate my dad and I built. Walnut back and sides, sapele neck with a walnut veneer. Bocote fretboard, bridge, and rosette inlay.
The shape is a little funky because I glued the top and back on outside the mold. Don't want to do that on the next one...it looks OK but I like more curve in the waist and shoulders that the dreadnought shape offers.