Wood shopping and gear buying.

Today we went shopping for wood. I rented a zipcar and off we went. To go back in time for a second, I finished the final blueprints and finished buying all the parts. Very sweet.




We drove to a woodshop up in Rowley, Ma. They guy there is a bit out of his mind, but he has some really nices woods. Here is the shopping list:

-10BF of 8/4 Walnut
-6 BF of 4/4 Zebrawood
-1.9 BF of 4/4 cocobolo
-10BF of 8/4 Purpleheart
- 6 BF of 4/4 Wenge






Originally we were going to have a Bubinga fingerboard, but then we saw this beautiful piece of cocobolo and realized I was going to have the most beautiful fingerboard that has ever touched a musicians
hands.

Spent about $400 for the wood, not bad.

Final specs for the Bass

Here are the specs:

Neck through design: Made of strips of Walnut-Purpleheart, 2 each. There will be a very small strip of maple to seperate the woods.

The body will be 3 pieces, Wenge with Aebrawood on the front and back.

The fingerboard is made of Bubinga.

The scale of the bass is 34" and there will be 24 Frets.

The bass will be a PJ setup with a Bartollini 8S P pickup and a Bartollini 9J1L Jazz pickup in the bridge of the bass. The preamp will be an aguilar OBP3-TK with a bypass switch and switchable midrange frequency.

The hardware is as follows:

-Chrome hipshot tuners
-Chrome Badass III bridge with string through design
-Chrome ferruels
-Wood knobs made of the spare wood. Not sure what kind yet though.

Gonna Build a bass

So in all my searching for the perfect Bass to buy, I was told by Eric, my repair guy and friend, that I could just build one. Interesting idea, thank god he used to work for the Gibson custom shop and knows how to build guitars. But the best part is, I get to help and learn in the process. I wicked excited. Can't wait to start.