THIS is a badass bass

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:40 am

my brother is a bassist and loves building basses, too. He now ordered a really nice body and neck from Warmoth.

neck wood is dubinga, ebony fretboard, he says slapping is great on it and it plays like butter with this special Warmoth neck profile.

I think, it looks fantastic.

just wanted to share this..

cheers

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 3:57 pm

Nice bass! But I think you mean bubinga

It's a very unusual looking wood, so smooth though. Also I have that same bridge on my J (in 4-string version), it's excellent. What's he going to do for pickups?

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:38 pm

Is he going to paint it? Active electronics or passive?

James · Post by **James** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:42 pm

I see it's a 5-string but the enck still looks big on the body, is it a dinky J body?

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 8:50 pm

jamba72 wrote:slapping is great

Slapping is never great.

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 9:58 pm

Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man.

5-string jazz necks are typically pretty wide and sorta goofy looking, I'd say the body is a standard size but the proportions do look a little off for some reason?

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Sep 19, 2011 10:12 pm

Don't take hating on people via the Internet away from me. It's all I have.

That neck's grain looks way rad, though, and that Badass bridge will have you sounding huge. I have one on my P-bass.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 6:27 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:That neck's huge.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Sep 20, 2011 8:15 am

theshadowofseattle wrote:Don't take hating on people via the Internet away from me. It's all I have.

Sigged for the lol

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:10 am

Dillon wrote:Yeah, well, you know, that's just like, your opinion man.

5-string jazz necks are typically pretty wide and sorta goofy looking, I'd say the body is a standard size but the proportions do look a little off for some reason?

dunno, exactly, yeah it looks a bit offset, thats why I like it.. fits actually very good to the nice neck for playability on the higher frets..

gonna give Warmoth a try for myself, I think with a Mustang..

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:12 am

Viljami wrote:Is he going to paint it? Active electronics or passive?

at the moment he is just oiling it. with hardoil the grain just pops out, wowey..I did that on my guitars , too, the playing is great.
electronics, he has some really expensive Delanos I think, on his other basses he has some very complicated electronics, custom made, mid-frequency modifying..passive/ active..
well, heÂ´s a Jazzer..

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:16 am

James wrote:I see it's a 5-string but the enck still looks big on the body, is it a dinky J body?

I think actually he looks quite balanced for a 5 string..and its a HUGE neck..

jamba72 · Post by **jamba72** » Wed Sep 21, 2011 10:17 am

Dillon wrote:Nice bass! But I think you mean bubinga It's a very unusual looking wood, so smooth though. Also I have that same bridge on my J (in 4-string version), it's excellent. What's he going to do for pickups?

bubinga, yeah, right..the Ebony fretboard is perfect on this..I had a Special DC with ebony..great

THIS is a badass bass

THIS is a badass bass

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