Multiscale Jazz-style bass

Overview

This bass is designed for versatility, even tone, and maximum playability using what I learned from the short scale bass prototype and the multiscale bass prototype.

Specs

• Mahogany body
• Purpleheart neck with ebony fingerboard
• Allied Lutherie dual action truss rod and stainless steel fretwire
• Carbon fiber neck reinforcement
• 32.375" - 34.625" multiscale
• Pickups currently undecided
• Bridge currently undecided
• Electronics currently undecided
• Gotoh tuners with Hipshot D-tuner
• Dunlop Straplocks

Neck

Geometry

The neck is of the same geometry as on the multiscale bass prototype.

Fretboard layout in SVG format
Fretboard layout in PDF format (single page)
Fretboard layout in PDF format (multi-page, letter)

Building the neck

Cutting out the shape

Drilling the countersinks for the tuners

Routing the channels for the truss rod and CF neck reinforcements

Making some cauls to hold the neck reinforcements down while gluing

Gluing in the neck reinforcements

Neck reinforcements glued in

Sanding the neck surface flat

Gluing the fingerboard on