NBD: Bass build complete!

[Starfire]

Well almost complete—just waiting for knobs to arrive (ooer).





Pretty happy with how it's turned out. Grabbed a Fender Rumble 200 a little while ago to play it through. Still finding my feet when it comes to bass playing, but sounds good so far.

[jimi]

Looking good! Liking the colour combo.

Those Fender rumbles are pretty cool too. Definitely will be grabbing one of those if I get an excuse to play bass again.

[StrummersOfThunder]

Oh shoot from the hip , pass the poi , Mahalo !
That's epic !
I really emreally love that combo of tort guard, rose wood and Daphne (esque) blue
Rock on

[MikeC]

Nice, luv the sonic blue and tort pickguard too.

[Kev77]

That’s a fine looking bass, did you put it together from parts?

[Mini Forklift]

Very nice, one of my favourite colours too. Well done

[KNNZ]

very cool! so what blue is it actually?

[Zaulkin]

Nice.

[Starfire]

Cheers all. Yep, it's a parts bass. Bit of an expensive way to go but I had fun putting it together and got exactly the bass I envisaged. The body is from Warmoth and the neck is an Allparts job from an eBay seller who applies a very thin lacquer finish (I can tell it's going to wear quickly!), fits a nut, and files and polishes the frets. They've made a really nice job of it. I was concerned the prefitted nut wouldn't work out but, fortunately, it seems to have been cut for the string gauge I chose and in my total novice bassist's opinion, playability and action seem ideal. I did shim the neck to get the action right though.

The body is Sonic blue. The pictures don't quite show the softness to the colour. It's a very difficult finish to photograph.

[Bg]

very cool! so what blue is it actually?

Denche blue...

Awesome looking bass

[kdawg2a]

Great looking bass!

[smallface]

That looks so cool. Congrats

[SimonHirst]

That looks great man! Awesome job

[Kev77]

So tasty, I’m almost ready to put together a parts pbass with a Lakland Chi-sonic pup in the regular pbass spot.

[jeremyb]

Sexy as!!