J. D. and slide

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Comment by Jason Mills on September 11, 2012 at 2:22am

I bet that would sound great ek,pretty cool!!!

Comment by eK on September 10, 2012 at 10:41am

Yeah, I was thinking of doing something along the lines of one of those old Supro "Pocket" Basses which is technically a routed body rather than a standard semi-hollow design. There's a core with 10 drilled out 3" holes in a circular pattern with a glued top and a fiberglass back screwed on to that. Mag-pup for the neck position and some sort of pickup (did they have piezos back then?) in the bridge.

Here's what it looks like with the back off:

There's a good video on Youtube showing the rescue/rebuild of a demolished 1960 model. Link here. It has a really amazing tubby woody tone. It's still vintage bsounding - but very unique at the same time. How cool is that?

This one begs for a tube amp and an old-style ported bass cab with a 15" speaker like my antique Ampeg B-15N has. Drop a set of D'Addario Chromes on it, and with some reverb, this could be a reggae or dub player's dream machine.

Comment by Jason Mills on September 10, 2012 at 8:19am

Thanks eK,yeah I had some reverb going, this build is a solid body. next one might be semi hollow. :>)

Comment by eK on September 9, 2012 at 4:51pm

That is some gorgeous deep sound you're getting. Really liked that bit of 'drive' right around the 1:39 mark too. Nice work!

Did you put some reverb on it, or is that just the box giving it that sweet hollow sound?

Comment by Jason Mills on September 8, 2012 at 7:08pm

Thanks Anders. I built this for someone.  Think I need one for me now,the neck was off an old bass and has a rod. :>)

Comment by Jason Mills on September 8, 2012 at 9:42am

Thank you RTZ and Bug!!

Comment by 407bug on September 8, 2012 at 3:52am

awesome bass build

Comment by RTZGUITARS on September 7, 2012 at 6:16pm

Another killer sounding looking Highwood guitar. I went and got my laptop amp to listen to this bat. went dead.

Fat string Jack tuned BEAD Nice Jason

Comment by Jason Mills on September 7, 2012 at 2:55pm

Thanks Nancy Kat!!!!

Comment by Nancy kat on September 7, 2012 at 12:16pm

Deepppppppsound~~~ nice work! meowwww ^^

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