Finally finished semi hollow, set-thru neck long scale bass!

[Adam Gardner]

I started this project roughly 15 years ago, and it kept getting put on the back burner while I worked on other things. The bass is a 36 inch scale, tuned B-E-A-D
Passive classic Jazz pickups with pickup covers made from scrap from the body, and a piezo pickup under the bridge. The knobs are Magneto(Volume, Volume, Tone), Piezo(Volume, Tone). The front switch is in/out of phase and the back switch is series/parallel for the J-bass pickups. Right now the volume and tone for the piezo just blend into the other pickups, but it doesn't work how I wanted. I'm just going to put a third DPDT switch to switch between magneto/piezo.

The neck is maple/wenge veneer/maple veneer/wenge veneer/white oak with a coco bolo finger board.
The body has a bookmatched purple heart/maple veneer/wenge veneer/Bookmatched maple back with birdseye maple electronics cover.
Ebony knobs, vintage NOS Fender J-Bass fretwire, abalone and MOP inlay. All electronics are shielded. I don't remember where I acquired the tuning machines, but I liked them.
I'm in the process of winding new multi-coil pickups for the bass to experiment with different sounds.
I still need to finish the setup to get the action as low as I prefer. Overall, I'm just thrilled to be able to play this thing after so many years!

[Randolph Rhett]

Very nice! Marvelously inventive and unique. I see many "unique" guitars where I have to scratch my head and ask "why?" Yours feels like you had a vision and it makes sense. Of course it looks like it belongs in William Murderface's hands, but that's a good thing!

[Dan Smith]

Coo-ool!
Kinda wicked organic look.
Love it!

[Adam Gardner]

Thanks! I was going for the unholy love child of Carl Thompson, BC Rich, and Alembic. I spent a long time making sure the bass was comfortable to play while sitting or standing, and that the balance was as neutral as possible. I'd be honored for Murderface to play it. Haha.

[Gordon Bellerose]

Love the purpleheart and cocobolo. Very nice color scheme.

[Adam Gardner]

Here's a video to show the contours of the body.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B99i19 ... sp=sharing

[Bob Francis]

Nice use of wood combos too!