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Yeah, you're right. Your Pittman is a great example of a cocobolo fingerboard on a fairly soft flame maple neck. With my special truss rod inside, that's a wonderful combination. For a Fender-pattern bass, that Pittman is about as good as it gets, in sound.
Are bass fretboard radii as particular as regular guitar fretboard radii? I don't have enough experience playing bass to know how much difference it makes. The reason I'm asking is I will most likely be ordering a custom bass neck and will have to specify a radius dimension. Are basses commonly compound radii these days i.e. 7.25" to 9.5"? 10 ...
Hi guys, Warmoth build with Black Korina body, Aguilar Super Double + John East Uni, struggling between these two options... Looking for growly tone with strong solid bass- like something a bit brighter than this and a bit darker than that... Using it for funk, jazz, rock Maple Neck, Wenge...
A friend of mine had that exact thing custom made by a local luthier 35 years ago. It was a fretless bass, which I guess makes it slightly easier than a fretted instrument, but it was still a lined fingerboard...and the luthier just built a slab of fingerboard extension that mated up perfectly with the end of the neck and filled the gap to the front pickup on his Jazz Bass, effectively giving ...
Also the plan for this bass so far is a Sadowsky on board preamp, the Duncan Apollo jazz pickups, swamp ash body with a quilt maple top, roasted maple neck with an ebony fretboard, stainless steel vintage small frets and the KSM foundation bridge.
I use a guitar fretboard conditioner and cleaning agent called PRS Fretboard Conditioner with mineral oil (petroleum distillate) in it. It both cleans and oils the fretboard. Most recommend using mineral oil and advise strongly against using real lemon oil, others swear to using lemon oil.
IMO fretboard wood might make some difference in tone, but not NEARLY as much as factors such as pickups/electronics, body wood, strings, neck thru / bolt on, etc. Also note that two identical basses can sound different merely because of the natural tonal variation of wood, even within the same species.
I've actually found myself making larger jumps on the bass from lower positions to thumb position with more accuracy than usual. Now if you must put markers on, don't "fret" the whole thing up like a bass guitar. I would only put a few markers on the bass at "landmark" points, like the octave D or G.
Have any of you played the same bass with both a maple or a rosewood fretboard? Is there a distinctive difference? There was a bass I was looking at on Ebay a few days ago, actually it had an ebony fretboard. My instructor said he liked the bass except for the ebony fretboard. He said he preferred maple. I like the looks of the darker wood myself.
Not quite correct. SimS have been retrofitting LEDs into existing necks for years now. They route a very thin channel in the bottom of the neck, between the neck wood and the fingerboard, then drill through the fingerboard itself into the channel, install the LEDs, pass the wires through the channel in the neck, then fill the channel with a wood veneer matched to the original woods.