Pharos
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Hello everyone!
Just joined here and I'm about to start my first Warmoth build. It'll be a 5-string with a P-Bass style body. I have the body woods picked out based on personal experience (lacewood over alder), but I'm a little stuck on the neck and fingerboard. I'm looking for a nice round punchy low end, and a clean top with a lot of overtones and harmonic content. It'll be strung with a high-C instead of a low-B for chordal stuff so a nice top end is essential. For the fingerboard, I was thinking either ziricote for the bright highs and noted strong overtones. Canary is also an option as I've heard from a few people and from listening that it has a nice top end with stronger overtones than maple and with some added low end, but I haven't played either, but have been listening to sound clips for the last several weeks. I've played a lot of different woods and the ones that are definitely out are maple as it sounds somewhat 2-dimensional to me and a bit brittle, and rosewood as it seems to dampen the highs and overtones. I've played a lot of ebony and it is a very nice fingerboard wood, but I'm looking to try something new.
For the neck, I'm not quite sure. I like the tight lows of bubinga, but it is pretty heavy. I had a Warwick Corvette-5 and the solid bubinga body was ungodly heavy. I was also thinking about lighter woods like imbuia and walnut and I like the sound of both, but I'm not sure if they are strong enough for a 5-string bass neck. I'll be choosing the graphite rods for added strength, and I like the tonality of the mids and highs of graphite (had a Modulus Quantum). Ipe is a pretty neat sounding wood, but I hear it's a pain to work and it's fairly heavy (same as bloodwood at around 67-69 pounds per cubic foot as compared to most of the other exotics [bocote/canary/bubinga/etc.] which are around 50-55 pounds per cubic foot. Walnut/imbuia/koa sit around 37-42) and I don't think Warmoth offers it.
I'm open to suggestions on both. Thanks a lot and sorry for the long post!
Just joined here and I'm about to start my first Warmoth build. It'll be a 5-string with a P-Bass style body. I have the body woods picked out based on personal experience (lacewood over alder), but I'm a little stuck on the neck and fingerboard. I'm looking for a nice round punchy low end, and a clean top with a lot of overtones and harmonic content. It'll be strung with a high-C instead of a low-B for chordal stuff so a nice top end is essential. For the fingerboard, I was thinking either ziricote for the bright highs and noted strong overtones. Canary is also an option as I've heard from a few people and from listening that it has a nice top end with stronger overtones than maple and with some added low end, but I haven't played either, but have been listening to sound clips for the last several weeks. I've played a lot of different woods and the ones that are definitely out are maple as it sounds somewhat 2-dimensional to me and a bit brittle, and rosewood as it seems to dampen the highs and overtones. I've played a lot of ebony and it is a very nice fingerboard wood, but I'm looking to try something new.
For the neck, I'm not quite sure. I like the tight lows of bubinga, but it is pretty heavy. I had a Warwick Corvette-5 and the solid bubinga body was ungodly heavy. I was also thinking about lighter woods like imbuia and walnut and I like the sound of both, but I'm not sure if they are strong enough for a 5-string bass neck. I'll be choosing the graphite rods for added strength, and I like the tonality of the mids and highs of graphite (had a Modulus Quantum). Ipe is a pretty neat sounding wood, but I hear it's a pain to work and it's fairly heavy (same as bloodwood at around 67-69 pounds per cubic foot as compared to most of the other exotics [bocote/canary/bubinga/etc.] which are around 50-55 pounds per cubic foot. Walnut/imbuia/koa sit around 37-42) and I don't think Warmoth offers it.
I'm open to suggestions on both. Thanks a lot and sorry for the long post!