Identify The Warmoth Bass Neck Quiz!

[nexrex]

Nex - Fair comment!  I think Sharp has a great bass sound, so the difference between rosewood and ebony as a fretboard wood (even though the effect of tone is up for debate) is important to me!  With the visual replica, all the rosewood boards in the showcase seem a lot brighter and browner than this particular one, so I guess I'm just wanting to be certain!  There are indeed a lot more bass players who are 'better' than Matt Sharp, but he's been a bit of an idol to me since my teens and I think the bass itself looks great.  I'm kind of obsessed by early Weezer!!  Sad, I know!  

OK, apologies if my last comment sounded like a personal attack on your choice of music or style. That is not what I was trying to say. What I was trying to say is that to me it just looks like a standard old beat-up fender black Jazz Bass. I'm guessing you could buy one of these from your local music store, or second hand store.

I'm trying to look at it from a creative perspective, as my old high school art teacher used to tell me. "You have the medium, the paint, the easel, and you can choose the style and type of brush strokes you use, so why recreate a copy of Leonardo Davinci's - Mona Lisa. Create something personal which is a reflection of your soul, your own work of art".
  :rock-on:

 

[Super Turbo Deluxe Custom]

...it does have a Tele Bass headstock.  :sad:

 

[umcoo]

Nex - Fair comment!  I think Sharp has a great bass sound, so the difference between rosewood and ebony as a fretboard wood (even though the effect of tone is up for debate) is important to me!  With the visual replica, all the rosewood boards in the showcase seem a lot brighter and browner than this particular one, so I guess I'm just wanting to be certain!  There are indeed a lot more bass players who are 'better' than Matt Sharp, but he's been a bit of an idol to me since my teens and I think the bass itself looks great.  I'm kind of obsessed by early Weezer!!  Sad, I know!  

OK, apologies if my last comment sounded like a personal attack on your choice of music or style. That is not what I was trying to say. What I was trying to say is that to me it just looks like a standard old beat-up fender black Jazz Bass. I'm guessing you could buy one of these from your local music store, or second hand store.

I'm trying to look at it from a creative perspective, as my old high school art teacher used to tell me. "You have the medium, the paint, the easel, and you can choose the style and type of brush strokes you use, so why recreate a copy of Leonardo Davinci's - Mona Lisa. Create something personal which is a reflection of your soul, your own work of art".
  :rock-on:

I didn't think you were attacking my music tastes, so no worries there.  The researching and preparation of a Warmoth build is half the fun and I genuinly find it exciting speccing things out and looking for good quality parts.  The pickups, as an example, are Schecter Monstertones.  Took me 2 years to track some down as they're only available in the custom shop Schecters these days.  They arrived last week, which spurred on my interest in finally getting this build sorted.

Hopefully, once all is done, it'll be a nice, good quality bass.  I'm not sure about the 'distressed' body yet though.  Might just get a body finished in black nitro and play the frick out of it, as opposed to getting a 'reliced' body....or paying through the nose for a genuine 60's body.

 

[umcoo]

I thought I'd bump this as I received an email off Weezer's webmaster (and general Weezer know-it-all) Karl Koch.  He had spoken to Matt (the bass player in question) for me and tole me it's a birdseye maple neck with ebony fretboard.  Problem solved!

Thanks to all that helped.

 

[JaySwear]

awesome! make sure to post up some pictures of that project when you get it all finished.