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Title: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 16, 2009, 09:56:28 AM
Yep, I'm gonna do a Jag bass, hollow, with (maybe) one Model G pup at the neck.  What do ya think?  Scott?
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Saf on July 16, 2009, 01:35:21 PM
iN shortscale man, that's is a killer comi jag body, Short scale neck. Love it before you even start
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Dave W on July 16, 2009, 04:26:33 PM
Hollow and with the body contours?
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: godofthunder on July 16, 2009, 04:44:12 PM
Quote from: drbassman on July 16, 2009, 09:56:28 AM
Yep, I'm gonna do a Jag bass, hollow, with (maybe) one Model G pup at the neck.  What do ya think?  Scott?
Bill, Il like the Hollow Jag concept but I think one Model G at the neck will leave you with a very woofy bass. I like these pups in the sweet spot, combined with the coil splitting it makes for a very versitile arrangement.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Highlander on July 16, 2009, 04:52:33 PM
hmm... I've always thought of them as F*nd*r's "reverse Jazz", somehow, but then I'm kinda space-for-rent at times... could be interesting...  8)
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 17, 2009, 12:13:53 PM
I see your point Scott.  Maybe I'll just have to use those nice sounding 1968 DeArmond made Coronado bass pups I kept for myself and a future project.  I think they'd look cool on a Jag shaped HB.  Yep, that sounds like a better idea!

No tummy or top contours for this one since I'll be doing double bound body on it.  I'm probably going with a solid color as well.  Fiesta red or sea foam green maybe?!?  The neck will probably be maple board, bound and with pearl inlays.   ;)

F-hole/s or not?  I haven't decided.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Dave W on July 17, 2009, 04:23:02 PM
Seafoam green would look great.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: shadowcastaz on July 18, 2009, 04:08:24 AM
Quote from: Dave W on July 17, 2009, 04:23:02 PM
Seafoam green would look great.
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/shadowcastaz/ho1.jpg)
seafoam w/ amber tint nitro.Me votes yeah! :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 18, 2009, 04:28:43 AM
Oh yeah Mike, that looks nice!
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Dave W on July 18, 2009, 06:44:33 AM
That P bass doesn't look like seafoam green to me, that's more like lime.

Here's what I mean:

http://www.suhrguitars.com/images/colorChart2/large/seafoam%20green.jpg
http://curtisnovak.com/restorations/FenderColors/SeafoamGreen.jpg
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 18, 2009, 06:56:38 AM
Quote from: Dave W on July 18, 2009, 06:44:33 AM
That P bass doesn't look like seafoam green to me, that's more like lime.

Here's what I mean:

http://www.suhrguitars.com/images/colorChart2/large/seafoam%20green.jpg
http://curtisnovak.com/restorations/FenderColors/SeafoamGreen.jpg

Yeah, that's more like it.  I think the tint took it into the lime green realm.  I'm also thinking maybe a light blue like RR's Sonic Blue or even lighter like the old 60's TBs.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 18, 2009, 07:03:04 AM
I was thinking, should I do a matching headstock on this one?  :)
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Pilgrim on July 18, 2009, 10:29:06 PM
Quote from: drbassman on July 18, 2009, 07:03:04 AM
I was thinking, should I do a matching headstock on this one?  :)

But of course, mon ami!!   
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Dave W on July 18, 2009, 11:00:36 PM
I'm not big on matching headstocks in most cases, but for a seafoam green or sonic blue Jag type I think it would work fine.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Highlander on July 19, 2009, 08:41:50 AM
Go for the matching head would be my opinion, which is generally agreed to be not worth the brains its thought upon...  ;)

(http://i655.photobucket.com/albums/uu280/kjrstewart/Peter%20Cook%20Custom/feb116.jpg)
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 19, 2009, 11:04:38 AM
I've always liked matching headstocks on Fenders, so I might just go for it on this build.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: SKATE RAT on July 19, 2009, 11:04:01 PM
even your tuners are multi colored.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 20, 2009, 06:08:56 AM
Quote from: SKATE RAT on July 19, 2009, 11:04:01 PM
even your tuners are multi colored.

Yeah, Kenny never saw a color he didn't like!
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Freuds_Cat on July 20, 2009, 06:32:11 AM
Quote from: drbassman on July 20, 2009, 06:08:56 AM
Yeah, Kenny never saw a color he didn't like!
;D
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: shadowcastaz on July 20, 2009, 07:59:44 AM
(http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d138/shadowcastaz/000_0017.jpg)
Kinda more like an ol '56 Chevy  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Pilgrim on July 20, 2009, 10:39:10 AM
I am pretty much a fan of matching color headstocks regardless of make and model.  I just like 'em.
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: drbassman on July 20, 2009, 11:38:18 AM
This new build will have it for sure!
Title: Re: Next scratch project: Short scale, HB Jag bass
Post by: Highlander on July 20, 2009, 04:19:09 PM
The refin I have planned for the RD is in the bag, bar the experiments for the works, but the PC is still very much up-in-the-air - my daughter is studying surrealism in her art classes at present; maybe I should enlist her for the "thinking outside-of-the-box tank"... ;)

Bryan... the tuners are easy - all the hardware (including the pups) was originally gold and when I broke one I could not find direct replacements so I stripped the new ones down and fitted the "wings" on them, to maintain a bit of continuity in the scheme, prior to "Tequilaification"...

Bill... so many colours... so little time...  ;D