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UPDATE
We've been working away at this project, along with a few others at a moderate pace, but are getting into a big push here to have this bass and a tear drop guitar done by early may.
Since the last update:
-Fretboard has been radiused to 9.5
-Ebony dots have been inlayed in the fretboard
-headstock wings have been glued in
-Wings have been glued onto the body
-Newer hardware has been ordered
-A vintage rickenbacker bass pickup has been rewound for possible use
And pics
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here is a mock up (the bridge will be different, but I thought I'd throw this on for the picture) - ready for paint
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B.C. Richenbacker
I love the way this bass turned out. It is actually going to get a few more coats of clear, but I'm heading out on the road with the REDETTES at the end of this week, and I wanted to be able to take it with me. The neckthrough design, and the high mass, brass bridge add a lot of sustain to the thumpy characteristics of the shortscale bass design, and it sounds really nice. Better than how it sounds, is how it plays - the neck is really smooth and the Low F on the E string is placed very similarly to where it would be on a strat, so there isn't a huge stretch to hit the low notes, and access is easy all the way up the fretboard. Holycats did some awesome work.
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