Barnyard bass neck arrived.

[bassfrancesco]

Thanks to all for keeping the DIY spirit.  I've been reading the threads but posted little.  So, for your enjoyment I'm posting pics of this neck and the barnyard project in full-swing.  The frets are 6130, nice and low, nickel.  The fretboard is rosewood  on wenge.  Tone-wise should yield slightly warmer tone and less pop than ebony.  Next build, yes there's another, I'll try wenge board over rosewood neck.  There's a good post here of ziricote, i'd try it.  And kingwood, think it's W's newer wood offering.  Back to the build, this neck is going on a walnut body with wenge top.  Both successfully penetrated and worked over the last 4 weeks..  with few issues.  They (they!) need to make better hand sanding tools for curves, like horns and edges.  I'm cleaning/washing the neck tonight with naptha, after much fondling and oogling yesterday, with bare hands.  From now smurf-gloves go on and won't touch this neck till it's done.  Ws rosewood feels superior on this neck than any other neck I've played.  It's firmer, less porous, smoother, and by far, more colorful.  Very happy here...

 

[Cagey]

That's a fine-looking neck you have there, and I'm sure you'll be happy with it eventually. But, you may not have noticed because you haven't put strings on it yet - there are only 4 tuner holes! That's gonna be a problem because as I learned at a very young age, you really can't put more than one string per tuner. You might want to give Warmoth a call, and see if they can just send you another headstock. I'm sure it was just a mix-up in shipping. There's probably a baseball player out there in the middle of Kansas or someplace who just got a UPS package that he thought was gonna be his new bat, but instead turned out to be chock fulla holes like the board of education!

 

[dNA]

^ this guy's sense of humor is ridiculous and great.

and your build sounds like a beauty. really lookin forward to seeing it finished!

 

[Nando Vallart]

Looks really really cool!
What is the body it's going on?

 

[bassfrancesco]

Thanks nononsense.  Hope your recovery went well.  The body is a walnut tbass, with wenge top.  There are images in progess at um...  in progress.  I will post more pics this week.  Let me know what you think. 
I chose the rosewood board over ebony.  Very nice match.