Semi-Hollow JazzMaster Bass VI Build Update:
After more than 8 months of slow, intermittent work, it is finally done! This build doesn’t have a clever name, but it’s my finest luthiery work thus far.
This is my (incredibly late) entry for the Great Guitar Build Off 2022.
It’s a Semi-Hollow JazzMaster Bass VI. The neck is a 5-piece multi-laminate through neck consisting of black walnut and hard maple, with black veneer between the layers, and a black walnut headstock top veneer.
The body is a semi-hollow JazzMaster-ish shape with a hard maple core and flame black walnut top and back. The body features a Bass Clef inspired F-hole.
Specs:
Scale Length: 30.2” / 767mm
Weight: 9.6lbs / 4.35kg
Fretboard Radius: 12” / 304mm
Hardware:
Hipshot Grip-lock Inline locking tuners
Graphtec Black TUSQ XL nut
StewMac Medium Fretwire
StewMac Black plastic fret markers
Luminlay GITD side dots
EMG 60/81 Active Humbucker pickups
EMG ABC Active Balance Control blend pot
Hardware, cnt'd:
Stringjoy Signatures Bass VI Balanced Medium Gauge (24-90) Nickel Wound Guitar Strings
StewMac Black Humbucker Mounting Rings
Schaller Non-Tremelo Roller Bridge
StewMac Dome Knobs
D’Addario Planet Waves Elliptical End Pins
Electrosocket Jack Mount
Gotoh Battery Box
Finish:
Z-Poxy Finishing Resin as grain filler
SprayMax 2K Clear Gloss
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Tom Cavnar