Custom Jazz Bass project

triskadecaepyon

I thought it might be nice to let ya'll know what's been taking my time up this summer. I have about 3 customer orders as a luthier, one of them being an entire jazz bass project from the ground up.

This Bass has the following design features

2 piece alder body - painted aged olympic white with Nitrocellulose

Vintage style Contours

Stewmac full maple neck refinished with aged nitro

Bone nut

Active EMG pickups, 1 Jazz Bass Bridge, 1 musicman Neck, 1 active preamp.

*EDIT: Musicman pickup replaced with EMG 35CS

Badass III Bridge

Old Cloverleaf tuners

Dunlop Straplocks

Black Pickguard

Chrome Control plate, speed knobs

I will update with pics when I make progress on the weekends.

At the end, I'll be releasing a video (because I have documented everything)

Hope ya'll enjoy the project!

triskadecaepyon

Template on top of the body blank from warmoth

First pass with the router...

After first pass, remove the template

Follow the cut area....

Repeat the process many, many times...

Finally got it, the body is upside down at the moment.

Another view, body is upside down also...

Next time: Neck pocket routing, maybe the quarter round.

Tex-Czech

dude, you play bass?

You live in austin, lets jam. Do it.

You play with any one?

Tex-Czech

Sorry, I forgot to compliment you on a great job!

I want to build a custom jazzmaster/super sonic body... project of any kind and any one excite me. flippin a.

Rick

another beast in the making, i've no doubt

SawaotheBuster

THat is the coolest thing ever...Keep updating with pics...

triskadecaepyon

Updates... 😀

Please understand that I am heavily simplifying my process... (most of this work takes place within 1-2 hours in the super hot garage.)

Placing the neck pocket template on...

Better detail of the template

First light pass with the router...

After first pass

Closer detail

Completed neck pocket...

and the fit...

After drilling the neck pocket holes, and drilling the bridge screws....

The pickguard nearly is snapped on to the neck; nothing is holding it on. I still have all the inner routes left on the bass, so I still have a ways to go.

mookie

Fancy fancy. 😉

lamp

Looks like it's going to be a great bass. Keep the updates coming 😀

Dolator

😲

Aug

*exactly* what bit are you using with your router? I needs to know!

iCEByTes

Amazing ... just friggn amazing

triskadecaepyon

Augustus_McCrae said: exactly what bit are you using with your router? I needs to know!

2 stewmac follower bits, and a box set of benchmaking bits.

Aug

thanks, d00der! I found something comparable with Freud...I'm gonna try those. 😁

triskadecaepyon

and.... updates...

Template for Jazz pickup

Better detail, with a prehole drill for the router bit to sit in.

Template for control plate...

Drilled from the pickup cavity to the control plate...

A view from above of all the routes

After radiusing (quarter rounding) the edges

Another view....

SawaotheBuster

once again...that is FREAKIN AWESOME

Aug

Impressive as hell...now for the endless sanding... 😆

CROSS

Certainly a 99.9% improvement on your earlier Jaguar project.

What happened to that?

my only two pet peaves with this are the fitting of the pickguard on the lower horn, and I could be wrong but you might want to check the position of the bridge, it looks like it's too far back, (but I'm probably wrong.)

It looks awesome.

Rick

this is looking good

triskadecaepyon

CROSS said: Certainly a 99.9% improvement on your earlier Jaguar project.
What happened to that?
my only two pet peaves with this are the fitting of the pickguard on the lower horn, and I could be wrong but you might want to check the position of the bridge, it looks like it's too far back, (but I'm probably wrong.)
It looks awesome.

I screwed up the neck and neck pocket on the jag. It's just sitting on display at the house right now.

The bridge is at the correct position, I've checked it against many basses already. The pickguard's position has to be fixed because the neck pocket on the pickguard is too small. That's why its not sitting right.