I began this bass guitar as a project while tutoring a middle-school student in building his own bass. The bass is a neck-through with a center core of maple and purpleheart and side wings of myrtle. The bass is a 5-string with low B as the fifth string. It has Bartolini pickups and a Bartolini active electronics preamp. The fretboard markers are strips of purpleheart.
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- Front view of bass.
- Front view of body.
- Back view of bass.
- View of the back.
- Rear view of headstock.
- Front view of headstock.
- Alternate body view.
- Another view of body.
COMMENTS:
Ryan Gibbler, bassist and instructor at GTR Studios in Moscow, ID had this to say after playing the bass-
Excellent playability and overall sound. Very good feel. Has a ton of treble – I would only play it with the treble rolled off. Awesome spacing between the strings – so many 5-strings have the strings too close together. Thanks! Ryan.
FINISHED DIMENSIONS (in inches):
- Scale = 34.0″
- Number of frets = 24
- Nut width = 1 7/8″
- String width = 1 5/8
- Headstock nut to tip = 8″
- Headstock width = 3 1/2
- Headstock thickness = 19/32
- Headstock thickness total = 19/32
- Width at 22 fret = 2 27/32
- Neck joins body at frets 17 and 23
- Body thickness = 1 19/32
- Body width at upper horns = 11
- Body width at waist = 8
- Body width at lower bout = 13 1/8
- Total body length (upper horn to bottom) = 20
- Fretboard bottom to bottom of body = 10 5/8
- Lower horn to bottom of body = 14 1/2
- From 24th to top of Neck pickup = 2
- From 24th to bottom of Neck pickup = 2 3/4
- From 24th to top of Bridge pickup = 5 15/16
- From 24th to bottom of Bridge pickup = 6 5/8
- From 24th to closest bridge top end = 7 5/8
- From 24th to farthest bridge top end = 8
- From 24th to bottom of guitar = 11 1/8
- Neck thickness at nut (without fingerboard) = 3/4
- Neck thickness at nut with fingerboard = 1
- Neck thickness at 12th fret (with fingerboard) = 3/4