Jmyre70
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Hello everyone!
I'm planning to build a bass, but I need help to make sure I'm actually going to build what I think I'm going to build. My goal is to have a vintage sounding (late 50s early 60s) p bass, but keeping it light weight. Can that happen? Now I'm reading that a lightweight body will make a pbass sound muddy.
The following is what I'm looking at doing:
* standard pbass body: swamp ash (4 lb, 2 oz), painted black nitro gloss
* jazz neck: roasted maple, rosewood fingerboard, graphite rods, standard profile, tusq nut, 6150 frets
* Seymour Duncan SPB-1 pickups
* Hipshot ultralight tuners
* Fender vintage bridge
* fender neck plate
* schaller strap locks
* celluloid pickguard
* warmoth tele knobs
* warmoth string retainer
* vintage pentometers and caps
I think this would be a bass that's easy on the back, but might sound like garbage due to the lightweight body. Thoughts? Advice?
Thanks!
Jason
I'm planning to build a bass, but I need help to make sure I'm actually going to build what I think I'm going to build. My goal is to have a vintage sounding (late 50s early 60s) p bass, but keeping it light weight. Can that happen? Now I'm reading that a lightweight body will make a pbass sound muddy.
The following is what I'm looking at doing:
* standard pbass body: swamp ash (4 lb, 2 oz), painted black nitro gloss
* jazz neck: roasted maple, rosewood fingerboard, graphite rods, standard profile, tusq nut, 6150 frets
* Seymour Duncan SPB-1 pickups
* Hipshot ultralight tuners
* Fender vintage bridge
* fender neck plate
* schaller strap locks
* celluloid pickguard
* warmoth tele knobs
* warmoth string retainer
* vintage pentometers and caps
I think this would be a bass that's easy on the back, but might sound like garbage due to the lightweight body. Thoughts? Advice?
Thanks!
Jason