Set neck blanks for basses

drbassman · May 15, 2011, 12:55:27 PM

Something like this, maybe..................

sniper · May 15, 2011, 02:46:15 PM

no i didn't. send him an email, i'm sure he would like that as you bought a neck from him.

drbassman · May 16, 2011, 06:41:27 AM

I sent Rick these specs for his opinion....................

sniper · May 16, 2011, 08:11:16 AM

Saturday I ordered a 3 piece Maho blank that is between both of your specs in order to make a 30.5", 24 fret neck for my 2 pup LP bass build. The objective was to have about 1/4" fretboard overhang and I used the stewmac fret calculator to get my measurements from. It could be used to make a 32" scale instead depending on how my left shoulder likes the build you are working on.

I have to clean up my "man cave" section as there are boxes of parts here that has a bunch of Gibby/oddball parts I need to find like: NOS covers, pups, inlays, vintage NOS "T" top guitar bobbins, NOS pre-wound Thunderbird pup slotted bobbins, stamped brass cavity shield, P-bass neck, 1 piece double cut LP Jr body from the Nashville plant, a Maple topped Maho body that I have no flippin idea about and things of that nature. I am such a slob!

drbassman · May 16, 2011, 08:27:56 AM

Wow, sounds like lots of cool stuff!

Hey, could you send me a tracing of the LP junior body?

sniper · May 16, 2011, 09:12:58 AM

does one just lay it down on paper and run a pencil around it? or make a "rub"?

drbassman · May 16, 2011, 10:56:50 AM

Quote from: sniper on May 16, 2011, 09:12:58 AM
does one just lay it down on paper and run a pencil around it? or make a "rub"?

Just run a pencil around the edges.

sniper · May 16, 2011, 04:17:11 PM

I can do that.

drbassman · May 19, 2011, 06:07:27 AM

FYI, Rick's working on an estimate for me for 30 and 34" bass neck blanks. It'll be interesting to see what he comes up with.

sniper · May 19, 2011, 06:54:29 AM

Quote from: drbassman on May 19, 2011, 06:07:27 AM
FYI, Rick's working on an estimate for me for 30 and 34" bass neck blanks. It'll be interesting to see what he comes up with.

i traded him some Honduran planks for a lami blank.

drbassman · May 19, 2011, 12:55:20 PM

Quote from: sniper on May 19, 2011, 06:54:29 AM

i traded him some Honduran planks for a lami blank.

Good trade!

johnk · June 15, 2011, 02:15:25 PM

on a similar note, and not to take away from the excellent and very reasonable service that Penta is providing for you, i found some NOS ('79-'80) maple 34" scale gibson set-neck blanks on ebay for a really good deal. it seems that they are fairly plentiful since two different sellers have quite a few of them available. they already have the truss rods in them too and were only $39 each. i bought two and they are very nice. i'm going to build a 34" chambered scale les paul bass and an EB3L (or possibly an RD artist) out of them. i was thinking of using my '69 EB-1 for a template, and build one of those out of one, but with a 34" scale maple neck on it, i think it would be far to small of a body and be very unbalanced to play on a strap due to it's body shape.
when i do build an EB1, it's going to have a 32" scale and a honduras mahogany neck with two graphite rods in it.